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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
Posts: 675
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I as well do not get annual flu shots/vaccine, and I never have.
Similarly to what Mark detailed above, I am simply 'suspect' of the 'advantages' vs. the potential 'disadvantages' ... including getting whatever strain of flu that the vaccine was not.
Too many whom I know each year get 'the flu' anyway, despite having had the vaccine.
I try to keep my immune system strong ... I am conscientiously a frequent handwasher ... I never open a public door with my hands ... nor touch elevator buttons directly ... and I use a waterless handcleaner frequently when out in public.
If my doctor's waiting room is perhaps crowded with obviously ill folks w/respiratory distresses, sinus congestions, sneezes, congested coughs ... I let the receptionist know that I will be waiting outdoors.
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50s Babyboomer; 2008 high-impact rear-ended/totalled-MVC, closed-head injury->pcs ... "Still dealing with it."
1993, Fell on black ice; first closed-head injury; life-altering. // 2014 Now dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy, tremors, shakiness, vestibular disorder, akithesia, anhedonia, yada yada, likely thanks to rx meds // 2014: uprooted to the cold wet gray NW coast, trying to find a way back home ... where it's blue sky and warm!
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Each and every day I am better and better. I affirm and give thanks that it is so. // 2014-This was still true for me last year, I truly felt this a year ago. Unfortunately it holds no meaning for me now. Odd, it was the Theta mantra for years. Change change change.
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