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Ophelia[_11_]

"dsi1" > wrote in message
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> On 1/12/2015 10:03 AM, wrote:
>> On Mon, 12 Jan 2015 07:56:40 -1000, 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.
>>
>> Yes my doc told me that last year and I had the booster before I went
>> to Cuba.
>>
>
> Cuba? Cool! My wife has to take a 3 shot course over a 6 month period. I
> had a flu shot today. I'm getting all the shots I can get!

We had the flu shots but managed to get one not covered. Having said that
though it wasn't as bad as I've had in the past. Still not pleasant
though.

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