Flu Shot?

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got mine this morn.
had the flu a few years back n thot i was gonna die.
never missed a shot since then.
 
Got it last week, at my old place of employment. It's only supposed to be for "active employees and immediate family", but they're so used to seeing me around, this is the third shot I've gotten in retirement and nobody said anything. They got a big bowl with candy, too; I always pick out the Snickers ;) .
 
For us old guys it's important to be fluless. Get it! I did. Lest we forget Santyanna's (sp) sage advice........"Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it". Years ago millions died from the flu. Granted, medical care back then wasn't what it is today, but why take a chance.
Dave
 
Strange story in my case. I had my usual October check-up with my PCP yesterday. One reason for this particular "mini-check-up" (halfway between my annual physical exams) is to get my flu shot. But this year, the PCP said that he is not doing the +P shots for us old farts because Medicare screwed him last year and he had to eat the entire cost of the +P old fart vaccine. :eek:

The fact that I am still on my working wife's health plan instead of Medicare didn't make any difference as the great bulk of his +P patients are Medicare patients and that's what mattered to him. :(

So I had to go to the nearby hospital to get my +P flu shot due to the strict "exclusive provider" rules of my wife's health plan. :o Except they wouldn't give it to me. :eek: They said I would have to go somewhere outside of the plan and pay out of pocket for the +P vaccine. :( In other words, I was screwed in a weird Catch-22 situation by Medicare not reimbursing my PCP for +P vaccine and the strict rules of where I can go and can't go according to the wife's health plan. :confused:

Bottom line is that I called the wife's health plan customer service line after that nonsense and eventually we did work out a solution that supposedly "bent the rules" a little. :) I finally got my +P flu shot late afternoon and, with a little luck, hopefully I won't have to pay for it out of pocket. :D
 
I Haven't Yet

I have gotten mine for the last 7-8 years. I have to go on November 2nd to my Primary Care Qwack. And I always Usally get it there. But I may NOT wait till then? I can always get it at my pharmacy?

But it's on my to do list.
 
Got mine 3 weeks ago from the nurse at work. For the last several years it was offered at only $10 for employees and immediate family. This year it was free!
I always ask the nurse how good her dart throwing skills are , roll up my sleeve and step about 10' away. :D
 
Already had my pneumonia shot.. with the flu shot & the shingle vaccine awaiting, my oncologist had to approve me getting each.

But the crystal ball system of forecasting which types of flu that the vaccine will prevent doesn't always work & other strains of the flu arise that are different from the ones that are in the vaccine. The same goes with strains of pneumonia and the pneumonia vaccine... they do the best they can in forecasting which strains will be faced each year... but there is no way that they can be 100% sure.

You do not get either flu or pneumonia from the vaccine shots.. you get either disease by being exposed to a strain that wasn't factored into the vaccines when they make them that year.
 
Got mine last week, they didn't say anything about +p though. I had an eye exam at the VA and they gave me the shot at the same time.
 
This will be an unpopular response but I won't put those vaccines in my body. Not in my daughter's either. Both my parents contracted Parkinson's disease with no previous family history. Can't find any smoking gun anywhere from the water to anything/everything else you could possibly test for. Maybe it isn't the vaccinations, maybe it is. Thanks but I'll pass.
 
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