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Becca EmaNymton Becca EmaNymton is offline
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On 1/12/2015 11:56 AM, dsi1 wrote:
> On 1/11/2015 2:54 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> On 1/11/2015 9:48 AM, Kalmia wrote:
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>>>> I guess my question was.....will you flip a coin to decide which to
>>>> attend?
>>>>
>>> One of them was my auntie so I gotta go to that one. The other was my
>>> son's girlfriend's sister. My son has the harder decision to make.
>>> He's the boyfriend - he has to be by his girlfriend's side. This was
>>> the auntie that taught me how to make shoyu pork in the old school way.
>>>
>>> My son's girlfriend's sister was 40 years old, they found her dead on
>>> Christmas. She might have had a heart attack triggered by the flu.
>>> Oddly enough, the CDC tracks the incidence of flu by an increase of
>>> heart attacks. This has us scared straight - we ain't gonna be missing
>>> our flu shots!

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>> We had our shots, but still got a variation that wasn't covered. Having
>> said that, think of the other ones we might have got ...
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> My wife is getting a series of shots for hepatitis B. She had been
> vaccinated 20 or so years ago. People were told back then that they
> would be protected for life but when she and he co-workers were tested
> they had zero antibodies. It was a very unexpected thing. Workers in the
> medical field may want to have their titers checked.


My biggest fear, before I retired from doing electrolysis, was catching
hepatitis. I am glad she was tested and she is getting the shots for hep B.

Becca