Get Your Flu Shot, Folks!

[ladyVet]

120. I've only had the flu four times in my life.

Those were the four years I was in the USAF. I got a double dose of the swine flu vaccine a week apart in basic training, because they gave us "the wrong one". Sick as a dog all four times.

I never get the flu otherwise. I often wonder if I have some type of immunity due to my mother getting the Asiatic flu when she was pregnant with me (the winter of 1957/58). She was dreadfully sick, and her mother came to take care of her and ended up sick as well.

As far as I know, the only other vaccines I ever had were the polio one when I was a kid, and whatever they gave me in the military. I had the mumps and German measles as a child, but according to my mother, not chicken pox. All three of my kids had chicken pox, but I never got it.

I am not anti-vaccine. I think children have a lot more protection nowadays than we did as children. I think if you want to get the flu shot, do so. But try to understand that some folks don't want to, and our choice is a valid as yours. Most of my family gets the shot, as they have health issues (and one sister works in a lab, so she'd have to regardless of her feelings). And I'm happy they are able to have a flu shot.