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« 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.
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« Reply #1 on: October 29, 2010, 07:13:19 PM »
It's Déjà vu all over again.
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« Reply #2 on: October 29, 2010, 08:31:56 PM »
I got my flue shot 2 weeks ago at D.  :2thumbsup;
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« Reply #3 on: October 29, 2010, 08:32:58 PM »
Yes had mine a week ago.
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« Reply #4 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)
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« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2010, 01:01:30 AM »
Yes Dear, I got mine too!!
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« Reply #6 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.
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« Reply #7 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
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« Reply #8 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.
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« Reply #9 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.
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« Reply #10 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.
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« Reply #11 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.
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« Reply #12 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.
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« Reply #13 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
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« Reply #14 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.
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« Reply #15 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.
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« Reply #16 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.
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« Reply #17 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.....

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« Reply #18 on: November 01, 2010, 12:14:14 PM »
Got mine at the D Center 2 weeks ago.  ouch!
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