flu shot, flu chaser

[jazzfish]

Me 364.25 days of the year: GET YOUR FLU SHOT IT IS AWESOME AND WILL SAVE LIVES

Me two days after getting my flu shot: my head is wrapped in cotton wool and i have zero energy. dammit flu shot!

Which is to say, Thursday night I went and got my flu shot. They gave me a tetanus booster as well, since I am pretty sure I've not had one of those since just before immigrating (and how is that nearly ten years ago already). So in addition to my standard "mild flu-like symptoms" my upper left arm is too sore to lie on.

Worth it, though. My standard "get yer flu shot story" is of the time I spent an evening comforting a friend who'd just had a bad breakup, and getting cried all over... and the next day she came down with a nasty flu and I walked away entirely fine. So, you know. Especially this year with a co-plague in the form of Covid: get yer flu shot.

Comments

[reedrover]

I'm with ya on getting the shots, and the tetanus shot can be a real beast.

Achaosofkittens skipped his flu shot last year and was horribly ill. I've been giving him the eyeball about it all year... he got one recently. I hope we have an event-less flu season now.

[jazzfish]

Yeah, my arm's still a little sore, coming up on a week later. It's srs bizniz.

An eventless pandemic flu season would definitely be a Good Thing. Fingers crossed!

[vvalkyri]

I'm probably overdue on Tetanus, but didn't want to deal with it from Safeway last week.