Flu shot info

[joany]

Below is a link to copd.net regarding the flu shot for 2018-19.  I got the recommended heavy flu shot last week.  Last year they had run out of the "heavy" one by the time I got around to it.  I didn't get the flu, however.

copd.net/clinical/flu-2018-19/

[jim]

Thank you for sharing Joany.

[lavishgail]

I have all kinds of shots, pneumonia shot, flu shots heavy one, also now that I have pneumonitis lungs I don't know what they will do? Throughout the years they have told me so many different things I really don't know what I have is it really pneumonitis? Is it COPD, is it emphysema, nope it's all pneumonitis, when I'm sick my lungs look like clouds inside it's just so weird and I need oxygen can't breathe horrible just like COPD no different except for I end up in the hospital 5 6 times a year and that's no fun. Take care all
Gail.

[lavishgail]

Not 56 times a year , 5 or 6 times a year!😄

[David]

I got my senior flu shot a few days ago. I haven't had the flu since Jan 2000. After that I started getting the flu shot and pneumonia shot.

[jarca]

I got my flu shot also. 
my dr said that it was quad & high dose---I feel 1/4 safer now than with the past high dose shots that only had 3

[lavishgail]

Oh Dear,
I need to get mine, still have to write down ask the doctor . I also need to make my appt. With my pulmonary doctor.
It never ends does it?

[jarca]

never ends---seems like it's my 'big day out' now days when i go to dr, pharmacy etc ---who'da ever thought that would be my busiest time outside my home :/

[lavishgail]

I'm the same jarca! Boo hoo. I'll need my rest with the upcoming operation, in my colon.

[barb7330]

Got my flu shot yesterday as well....The druggist said the one he gave me was the quad....whatever that means.

[jarca]

barb- that is supposed to be the best one available this year *knock on wood*

one of my grand daughters is debating flu shots & all vaccines for her almost 3 year old twins----
i try to stay out of things, but i had to tell her that i remembered getting chicken pox & rubella measles (& mom keeping me in dark room so not to go blind)----and i grew up with friend that had polio & had to walk with crutches
Oh the things that we have eradicated, i think i'll take my chances with vaccines that are available.

and  i wish more people got their kids shots for flu & pneumonia so they don't expose me (and others ) with low immune systems!!!!----i'm tired of getting sick in winter when i go out to grocery store----and i seem to get so sick, those younger, with immunities don't realize whar they give to others just ecause they don't get that sick.

[barb7330]

Yes Jarca your right. My youngest Son and his partner will not have any kind of vaccine and won't vaccine dog and cats....I told them I've been getting them for years and no ill effects so far and I'm 81 years old and been on oxygen for 6 years. If they keep me well will continue to get them.....

[skate4life]

There is a new paralyzing virus hitting children across the country - so far none of the children have had vaccinations. At what point do we need to get more strict about vaccinations, protecting other people especially children, etc. I know in the hospitals for a number of years there was an ongoing battle about the right to refuse the flu shot vs. being hired/fired for compliance. I think most today require the shot unless a physician writes a letter for need to refuse based on employee's medical history.

I have to wonder how the people without the vaccinations/flu shot feel when other children, a loved one or animal contracts the illness requiring huge medical bills (hospitalization), life long effects (sterility), or death. How many people tell these people to absolutely not visit them without protections - or do they just take a chance. Philosophy vs. practicality?

[joany]

Some of us well remember the Polio epidemic.  What is hitting the children now sounds eerily  like polio. 

What happened that there's so much distrust?  When I don't know, I need to cautiousy trust those who do.  Reminds me of throwing out the baby with the bathwater - a rogue here and there has caused a wide blanket to cover all those who can help.  Very sad.  The next generation will be akin to the generation of our grandparents - disease ridden and cutting their lives and the lives of their children too short.

[David]

Florida health officials say a child is the first to die during this year's flu season.

www.wctv.tv/content/news/Florida-child-first-to-die-of-flu-this-season.html

[lavishgail]

Very scary!

[David]

An unvaccinated child is the first person to die of the flu this season, according to state health officials.

[lavishgail]

That is awful David, I wish they could find out how we get the flu, and we can all stay away from the germ. if only they knew what the very first germ started and go from their poor kid's. I pray for all the children.

[lavishgail]

I don't really know how to explain what I met up above? I wish they could find out how the flu started to begin with is what I mean I think I know how we get it it spreads I mean where did it start from?

[jarca]

so sad that the child died, my daughter & her kids were all ill this weekend with sore throat & headaches (sounds kind of like strep throat) ,greatful that this grand daughter had my great grand son shots.
So many getting sick, right after I went to great grand sons party; methinks that will be the last 'party' for me for the season;
I wish more people would get the vaccines so I wouldn't have to 'hibernate' like i do in the winter----i don't think those that fear the vaccine realize how much i fear them

[David]

Oct 17, 2018 21:27:34 GMT -5 jarca said:

I wish more people would get the vaccines so I wouldn't have to 'hibernate' like i do in the winter----i don't think those that fear the vaccine realize how much i fear them

Yes, Jarca I feel the same way

[lavishgail]

I have to wait till Monday to see if my Doctor wants me to get the flu shot, bc, Im on chemo, so waiting to hear!