How intersting that you got a call from your insurance company. This is rather new. Our insurance company often sends information about diabetes to Ross and my daughter this past year. This never happened before.

I know, Dotsie. I get letters about my meds and now this phone call. Big Brother is watching!

Jabber, I didn't feel my flu shot until later. I said, "Are you sure? I didn't feel anything. I don't even get a bandaid?" They laughed and said I didn't need a bandaid. I felt cheated. That afternoon my arm was sore so I know I really did get it. Weird.

Saundra,
I never had a shot I didn't feel. That last flu shot about knocked me over; it was a gun type device. I stood in line forever to get the dumb thing. I'm not in the high risk category;
they won't give me a swine flu shot, anyhow. I really ought to get one, for the mere reason that I visit the county nursing home every couple of days and am there about two hours per visit. It's a bit risky. I don't care so much for myself, but I'd hate to bring it home to WB and Xena.

I received a letter this week saying that I was in the "at risk patients" in my group practice so advised to have the vacination.I have made the appointment.I surely dont want side effects but will scedule no appointments in the following days and lay low..
I do not pay for this due to our N.H.S.

Good luck, MA! Hope all goes well!

Authorities are either overestimating or underestimating the
essentials. LOL...or not!

I have had swine flu and IMO it wasn't anything near or close to annual. I was given tamiflu and had a realy bad reaction to it(pill form, we have a saying in our house...if she hasn't got it...she'll have it ordered!!)Nontheless, I have been asked to come in for the shot specifically for swine flu. I also went into an anifalactic(sp?) shock with last years bog standard jab and my GP sent a car to Uni to pick me up....so I am a tad warey about having this one...can ya get swine flu more than once as we have one kid down with it again in this house? I fall into high risk category but most that I know who have had it say the same as me.
I was quarrantined and had a masked 'flu freind' at my beck and call. I suppose it hits everyone in different ways?

Poppie

Oh, if anyone needs it, tamilfu that is....I have a box going spare with only two out of them..

Did you hear about the H1N1 recall? They found out it doesn't last long enough in the human system to make a difference.

It's finally available at Walgreens and I'm sure glad I didn't spend the money.

Surprise, surprise the stuff doesn't work and where are all these hundreds a cases of swine flu they predicted to get us to take their lousy vaccine. NO WHERE, that where...