Have you had your flu shot?

[mountainchick]

I got a flu snort.

The Guard did my annual "yes you have teeth, eyes, blood and all that" a couple of weeks ago. Part of it is bringing me up to date on my shots. After 14 years of this, I'm pretty sure I'm immune to everything except the common cold.

Anyway.

This year the medic handed me a small syringe sans needle and told me to push the plunger while inhaling. Then she handed me another and made me do it again. She assured me that was my flu shot for the year.

If the crap running down the back of my throat is any indication, my stomach won't be getting the flu this year.

I think you might have gotten the flu mist (?). The military might be turning to that now rather than the shot.

My job is actually doing research/surveillance onboard large deck Navy ships as well as surveillance at military treatment facilities (medical clinics etc) of influenza.

Wooppee for flu season, maybe now work will pick up!

[Hub]

My husband's hematologist had him take the flu and pneumonia shots a couple weeks ago- he made me get the flu shot as well . . .
They advised us to take tylenol every 6 hours for the 24 hours after we got the shots- wasn't a big problem.

I normally would think of myself as a healthy individual who did not need the shot, BUT my husband has a compromised immune system and I work with little kids in the preschool and big kids here at the University- so i really don't need to take any germs home to him.

[Tuckervill]

I'm like zen...never had the flu, never had the shot.

The last fever I had was from a tick-borne illness and was probably 7 years ago. I consider myself one of the lucky ones. Hubby has had flu shots off and on over the years, but also never had the flu. None of my kids have ever had the flu.

My youngest son didn't get vaccines until he was old enough to consent. The only one he's consented to so far is chicken pox. It was a carefully considered decision not to vaccinate him. Since he doesn't go to school, it's not an issue. I certainly wouldn't make him get a flu shot.

Karen