Re: Influenza Season

Citrine1 · ‎03-09-2010

I got a flu shot on November 18th and have been sick ever since. Not bedridden sick, but sick nonetheless. Just came off my third round of antibiotics. Ugh

Irshgrl31201 · ‎03-18-2010

Sad.

Australia has introduced the "No Jab, No Bill" to parliament that would require parents to vaccinate their child or they will lose benefits and the child tax credit if they don't. I think that is a wonderful idea and I hope the US adopts it. If you don't want to vaccinate your child, fine, but don't expect to receive these benefits.

Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
JFK

MaggieMack · ‎10-01-2014

I got the pneumonia shot and shingles vac, but my gyn sort of poo-pooed the flu shot so I bypassed that. I remember in the mid-60s there was this thing called the Asian Flu going around. I was the only one in my family to get it, but I was flat on my back sick as a dog for a week. My mom, one of the rare ones who worked at the time, would drive home at noon and check on me. We were required to have a permission slip from a doctor to come back to school, it was a real epidemic. The hangover from that? I heard the song I'll Sing in the Sunshine a thousand times that week, and never recovered from my dislike of that song or association with being sick with it.

My prayers are with the family that lost their beautiful child to, what? The flu. Should not happen.

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. - Aesop

SeaMaiden · ‎03-10-2010

@MaggieMack wrote:
I got the pneumonia shot and shingles vac, but my gyn sort of poo-pooed the flu shot so I bypassed that. I remember in the mid-60s there was this thing called the Asian Flu going around. I was the only one in my family to get it, but I was flat on my back sick as a dog for a week. My mom, one of the rare ones who worked at the time, would drive home at noon and check on me. We were required to have a permission slip from a doctor to come back to school, it was a real epidemic. The hangover from that? I heard the song I'll Sing in the Sunshine a thousand times that week, and never recovered from my dislike of that song or association with being sick with it.

My prayers are with the family that lost their beautiful child to, what? The flu. Should not happen.

@MaggieMack I also got the Asian flu as a young girl. I was so sick and delirious with fever for two weeks. I have never been that sick since and remember how awful I felt.