Not What I Expected...

Yes, I did my flu shot!

Alwin at Code the Web Socket reminds us that we need to get a flu shot.

I did mine just over three weeks ago.

Just over two weeks ago, I picked up the one variant that wasn't covered. That's what happens when you repeatedly share a somewhat large metal tube with 100 of your closest friends on those two hour trips to Seattle.

The flu, as expected, begat a secondary infection in my tonsils.

Note--I was the one kid who should have had her tonsils out, who didn't get them out. I had massive penicillin injections--nasty bad ones that were in some slow melting compound that was injected into my thigh, which then caused saucer-sized multi-ringed coloured bruises--instead. At least until the hives kicked in.

And there is something really whacked about reading how Lon Chaney died from a throat hemorrhage while you're dealing with the eau d'rusty nails yourself.

But seriously--back when I was a tiny coder, and was asked to db the state coroner's records, the one set of data that really struck me was how *many* people died from flu from 1917-1919. And how young so many of them were.

This year's flu looks really nasty for kids. So, even if you're the bid studly type who'd *never* be felled by a virus, think about whether you *really* want to bring that package home to your kids?

Get a flu shot.

Posted by lsefton at November 28, 2003 07:40 PM