Texas Fall/Winter thread!

[pacerron]

Downside is I have to get poked:shocked:, not a fan, but I will get an ice cream for my pain

:chicken:
At least you have a pretty nurse to give you the shot

I was on worldwide shot status for many years and those old airguns that gave six shots at once really hurt but not for long unless you flinched when they pulled the trigger.

Today's throw away needles are really sharp and most are thin. We get our flu shots from the Pharmacist that has been giving them for many years at a local drugstore. After he is done I always ask him how many more years till he opens his eyes when sticking the needle in?
I can still remember as a 7 year old getting a shot in the butt from an old fashioned needle that they used to resharpen. I took off running and yelling clear across the room with the needle and syringe still in my cheek.

I have to get 4 blood draws a year and I don't like that. It seems like every Phlebotomist is in her first week of training

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

A newspaper article said the common symptom among the patients that have died is difficulty breathing.

The doctors said if you have any difficulty breathing, that is when you immediately head to the hospital.

 

[Bob77064]

Since 1991 when I first got the flu shot I have not had the flu. Before that I got the flu most every year, I believe the shot works.

 

[Western]

Foreman, what will it take to get you to "take it easy" geeez man!!:laughing: You're gunna make that so permanent they have to put you in a wheel chair!, or us TBners will have to "amputate", remember "we have tools"!!


Ron, you got that right brother!! My wife laughs at me and honestly it makes no sense to me either, I have broke bones, got countless cuts, ran over by a cow or 10, bucked off horse and never get "girlyfied", pull out a needle and I'd join the Foreign Legion to get away from it!! Makes no sense at all

 

[two_bit_score]

Well good news no surgery but bad news is have an infection in where had the surgery. They have me on 30days of antibiotics and anti-inflammatory,hope it works so don't have to go to specialist...

I haven't had a FLU shot in many years,probably atleast 10,maybe I should re-think that now days...

It's getting scary how many people wind up with infections after surgery now days. It really seems to be getting worse. Hope your recovery is quick and complete Foreman.

 

[foreman Etexas]

Thanks two-bit, I hope I kick it soon, tired of feeling like poop...
And Dennis NO way keep those tools in the shed:laughing::shocked:

 

[txdon]

However, my mother did get the flu shot and she had the same I had flu three weeks earlier, but my father who also had the flu shot did not get it. The only common similarity between the people in my family who get the flu and those that do not is eye color. Blue eyes OK, Brown eyes gets flu.

 

[Western]

Don, that was my reaction when I got my flu shot several years ago, I was sickly for 3-4 days. Now I have learned that some people will have the symptoms worse than others and it can vary from year to year, person to person.

The way the Doc explained it make sense, the result of the body fighting the foreign bug, is still the same (temps, cough, chills ect tra), the symptoms are the bodies reaction to trying to kill off the virus, rather than the virus causing the symptoms. That would make sense if someone "feeling" sick after getting the vaccine. End result is the point..antibodies.

 

[Western]

Thanks two-bit, I hope I kick it soon, tired of feeling like poop...
And Dennis NO way keep those tools in the shed:laughing::shocked:

Foreman, FYI, just put a new chain on the Husky, so pain should be to the minimal. Will have to try to wash off the Poison ivy oil though, will do the best I can for ya. I'm sure one of the fellas here has a hot iron for the cauterizing and some vet wrap and you'll be "half as new"! BTW You're better half is a nurse too, or in school? you would be a good clinical trial:laughing:

 

[pacerron]

The only common similarity between the people in my family who get the flu and those that do not is eye color. Blue eyes OK, Brown eyes gets flu.

Could there be a common similarity from the vast list of autoimmune diseases or their results that may have or not have been diagnosed yet?