On 1/13/2015 8:31 AM, Becca EmaNymton wrote:
> On 1/12/2015 11:56 AM, dsi1 wrote:
>> On 1/11/2015 2:54 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>> "dsi1" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>> On 1/11/2015 9:48 AM, Kalmia wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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!
>>>
>>> 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 ...
>>>
>>>
>>
>> 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

I'm glad too. This better mean that I'm getting some protection too! :-)