Wellness

[Mominohio]

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wrote:

Heavens to Betsy YES you all are being insanely paranoid!! So the flu is out there, it always is. You just have to follow the golden rule of always washing your hands. I had an eye doctor appt last week and sat there with a waiting room full of elderly folks. No one was paranoid. I survived. I have a physical on Monday and will of course be going. I'm certainly not going to stop living because of a sickness that is always among us. Don't worry, be happy. 

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I don't know about others, but in my life, different seasons have different purpose and processes by which I live, and always have. 

In the cold and nasty northern winters, I have the time to purge my closets and cupboards, do my spring cleaning, make my plans for summer gardens and canning etc. Things that naturally go with being indoors as I don't care for the weather anyway. So what better time to do them, and stay in?

I'm usually spent (financially and physically) after a busy holiday season, and more than happy to not be out in the crowds on a regular basis for a couple of months. Winter can be easy to hibernate and shut down a bit in this climate. 

That said, we still go to the bank, the grocery, eat out maybe a couple of times a month with the extended family, go to any scheduled medical appointments, take my best friend to lunch for her January birthday, and even take the occasional warm day to make a day trip to our favorite shopping destination. 

But we do take more precautions, and we do go out less. 

We don't stop living, we don't enjoy our lives any less because a particular season necessitates a different pattern to our lives. 

Cautious is what we are. Paranoid would be thinking everyone's path we crossed was sick and intentionally trying to make us sick. 

[Lindsays Grandma]

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wrote:

@Karie2022

You’re just being cautious. I actually had the exact thoughts this morning about taking my 81 year old Mom to the casino tomorrow. She loves to go & she had a flu shot but I am thinking maybe we shouldn’t go. She’ll be disappointed but think of all the germs on those slot machines...

I only had the flu shots twice in my life & I got so sick after them I vowed I’d never have another. Second guessing myself on that one too- my son’s are pharmacists (one specializes in infectious diseases) & they both urge me to get the shot. I’m wavering... I just read the shot only reduces your chances by 10-60%? I seldom get sick- even though I’ve got people constantly coughing, sneezing around me. Probably just jinxed myself...

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Back in the nineties while still working at Warner Bros. in Burbank, CA I had a doctor who did not believe in flu shots.  To this day I have not had one and perhaps by luck I never got the flu.  One of my staff who was deathly afraid to get a shot finally gave in and got one.  She was out of work for three days after claiming the shot made her sick, who knows?