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Title: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: kitkatz on October 29, 2010, 06:03:55 PM

Have you had you flu shot this year?    The medical professionals recommend we get one as dialysis patients are at risk.


I received mine on Tuesday.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Zach on October 29, 2010, 07:13:19 PM

It's Déjà vu all over again.
 :beer1;

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: ChickenLittle56 on October 29, 2010, 08:31:56 PM

I got my flue shot 2 weeks ago at D.  :2thumbsup;

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: cookie2008 on October 29, 2010, 08:32:58 PM

Yes had mine a week ago.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: boswife on October 29, 2010, 09:10:12 PM

im 'just' the cargiver/wife  ;) but i got mine 2 weeks after hubby. I About passed out  :o  I felt it was my responsibility to not possibly pass an illness on, but ohhhhhh how i would have dodged it if i could.  Hate those needles.. (nope it didnt hurt, i just hate um)

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Jean on October 30, 2010, 01:01:30 AM

Yes Dear, I got mine too!!

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Sluff on October 30, 2010, 07:03:17 AM

I got mine. On the road all the time around many people in different parts of the country everyday it would be suicide to not get a flu shot for me.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: vcarmody on October 30, 2010, 07:41:34 AM

My husband got his 2 weeks ago and I got mine a week ago.  I only got it because I am his care giver and I felt it was my responsibility to get protected for his sake.  I would never have got the shot for any other reason.  My mom got so sick one time getting it that I decided there was no way I would ever do it.  How things change  ;D

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: FindingNeverland on October 30, 2010, 07:59:44 AM

Yuppers, I got mine. I don't leave the house much but the hubby does and he's around people every day so I thought it best to protect myself and vice versa, he got it too.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Pam on October 30, 2010, 08:06:33 AM

DH and I got ours. DH griped for 3 days that his shoulder hurt! Big baby :rofl;
What gets me is the number of people that do not use the wipes to clean the handle and seat area of the grocery carts. Those things have to be covered in germs.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: thegrammalady on October 30, 2010, 09:15:14 AM

got mine. dialysis center managed to get them in a timely maner this year. last year i had to go to walgreens.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: RightSide on October 30, 2010, 10:59:18 AM

I got my flu shot at my dialysis center this year.

Last year, because of the delays caused by the H1N1 scare, I had to go to Walgreens Pharmacy to get my flu shot.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: KICKSTART on October 30, 2010, 04:04:21 PM

I can ..but have never had a flu shot and this year even more so because they have combined it with the swine flu one. I personally dont feel enough is known about this vaccination and feel it was a rush job to get out.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Riki on October 30, 2010, 04:45:28 PM

I got mine last week..

And, Kickstart, I read somewhere that variations of the swine flu vaccine have been around since the 70s.. not sure how true that is, though... I think it was much more rushed last year than this year

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: cloud393 on October 31, 2010, 09:21:49 PM

I got mine 2 weeks ago this Tuesday and I have had mild diarrhea, nausea, aching, jumping joints ever since.  I just want to crawl out of my skin sometimes.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: billybags on November 01, 2010, 11:40:30 AM

KS, I am glad I am not the only one who thinks this. We have chosen not to have it for the same reason.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: okarol on November 01, 2010, 11:45:48 AM

The risk to chronically ill patients is higher if they get the flu. That's what the Center for Disease Control says.

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Darthvadar on November 01, 2010, 12:01:37 PM

Mum and I got ours several weeks ago...

Flu MAY NOT kill us, but it's a risk neither of us is willing to take.....

Darth...

Title: Re: Flu Shot 2010
Post by: Tracy on November 01, 2010, 12:14:14 PM

Got mine at the D Center 2 weeks ago.  ouch!