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rectumdamnnearkilledem
Why don't they make shots for things I really need to avoid...like Krispy Kremes and shopping and vodka... Just wondering...
Getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to
remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.
~ Sarah Kay
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Michelle
I dont know what it is but every year i've gotten the flu shot (it was required when i was in the military) i've gotten ridiculously sick afterwards. This year they were giving the shots free at my new job so i thought id try it on more time and what do you know i got so sick i could barely function just 2 days after getting the shot. I think its the last time i'm doing it. I never got them before i joined the military and almost never got the flu. So next year no flu shot....i bet money i wont get sick!!!
"Young and healthy people can prevent the flu from being transmitted to the rest of the population if they are vaccinated."
That's especially important. My PCP has something up in his office encouraging people to get flu shots--at the very least to help prevent them from become carriers of a bug that could prove deadly to someone they love. k
Barefoot and happy
Myth 1: The flu shot will give you the flu. This is impossible, because the flu shot doesn't actually use live viruses.
Myth 2: Because they are grown in eggs, flu vaccines can actually give you the avian flu. We have absolutely no evidence to suggest that can happen, says Dr. Poland. Vaccine makers collect eggs long before flu season, sterilize them before use, and then kill all the viruses. The real danger would be giving the shot to someone with an egg allergy, which could cause life-threatening anaphylactic shock. Statistically, the odds of that happening are — one in a million.