As someone who got mumps and chicken pox (and barely escaped measles) because my parents failed to vaccinate, I'm a big fan of shots (though I must say my recent shingles vaccine knocked me for a loop for 24 hours).
To be fair, I did get mumps and chicken pox before there were vaccines for them, so I guess I shouldn't blame my parents.
I had mumps and chicken pox as a kid too. Never had measles, but my MMR shot anitbodies are good to go. I asked my PCP a couple of years ago and he had the lab check the blood sample and it came back good. Now that lab work cost me plenty as it wasn't covered by my health care.
Ozzie, your paradigm of optimism!
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I do, both winter-winter (September to May-ish) and the rest-of-the-year winter. Also, the three weeks of not-winter (rumored, not guaranteed to exist on an annual basis.) I think with the whole global warming/climate change taking place, their growing season has extended out to almost 72 hours, so there's that.
That, or SMOD. Don't have much of a preference other than timing. Not soon would be good and much appreciated.And that volcano is going to blow any day now.
Of course, that one's going to get us all anyway, so never mind.
Vaccine schmackzine. Those were the days when you went out and earned your antibodies the hard way. Prior to entering the first grade my mother sent me to play with Victor Burns, a friend who Lived around the corner who was suffering from a raging case of chicken pox. Yeah that’s right i was “Sophie’s Choiced” by my dear mum. Two weeks of utter misery followed, canker sores on my lips and the roof of my mouth, oozing body sores all because mom wanted to make sure I didn’t miss school. Mom tutored Latin which was another torture I endured as an elementary school student. Though I was the only kid in my peer group who could deliver a solemn high mass.
Just received my Pfizer booster.
According to the NYT, the FDA is going to allow mix and match of boosters
"The Food and Drug Administration is planning to allow Americans to receive a different Covid-19 vaccine as a booster than the one they initially received, a move that could reduce the appeal of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine and provide flexibility to doctors and other vaccinators.
The government would not recommend one shot over another, and it might note that using the same vaccine as a booster when possible is preferable, people familiar with the agency’s planning said. But vaccine providers could use their discretion to offer a different brand, a freedom that state health officials have been requesting for weeks."
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/u...-boosters.html
Guess I'll try to convince the pharmacist to give me a Moderna (I had one shot of J&J in February) so I can just put my car keys on my forehead. (No Sam Gilbert jokes this time.)
I don't know if it was "arranged" or if we both just happened to catch it, but I definitely had a chicken pox buddy when I got it as a kid (there are some pretty hilarious pictures, we did not look as miserable as we should have been). Alas, the vaccine was about 4 years too late for me, so now some of my earliest memories are of me having to take a bath in some really unpleasant purple/pink liquid.
In my neighborhood we passed around the various childhood diseases like a chain letter. I had the usual: mumps, chicken pox, measles, German measles, Spanish measles, French measles, etc.
The first vaccination I remember getting is a polio gamma globulin shot in my butt, before the Salk vaccine, around 1953 or 54 perhaps.
I do remember starting to get flu shots during my early teen years. The parents thought they were subtle about it, but I and my brothers caught on pretty quickly that when the whole family was herded into the car for a "nice" ride for no particular reason we ended up at the doctor for flu shots.
Our reward-one younger brother-was a Disney cartoon after getting a shot. Bambi, Pinocchio, Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, my memories of those movies is the Faustian Bargain of having had to have gotten a shot or two before my mother taking us to the movies, eating popcorn and watching a movie. And the theaters were air conditioned.
Come to think of it, Ole Yeller might have been a post-vaccination movie. Not a cartoon but a real bummer of a movie. I think I cried.
Covid booster update (Pfizer): I walked for 2 hours and did 500 pushups this morning to ward off soreness. I have a slight headache, but I also slept 4 hours because I was on call and there were lots of sick babies last night. I feel pretty ok.