Flu shots!

[asterroc]

I'm curious whether people are planning to get the flu shot this year.

[Poll #1449243]

Comments

[sildra.livejournal.com]

For me, normal colds are rather uncomfortable for about 2 days, and often mildly uncomfortable for another day or two. During those first 2 days, I often feel tired, but not so tired that I can't put in a full day of work at 80-90% productivity; during the later days (if they even happen) I am fully clear-headed, and just maybe have a sore throat and sniffles. But it isn't like I get colds every winter or anything (I used to, up through college, and I think in middle school and elementary school I even got them more than once a year). I think I've had maybe three colds in the past five years.

I've had the flu twice. Once in high school--and it made me nervous, because I'd never been that sick before. I had a fever for 2 1/2 days, and it got up to 102 F at some point (both the duration and temperature are still a record for me). But my parents said it was just the flu, and nothing to worry about. I think they made me miss four days of school. And once in grad school, where it only lasted two days, but I took a third day off for recovery. About once a year when I was a kid, I'd also get the "stomach flu" with a one day fever, and two days of throwing up, and I got that once in college as well, but haven't since. I've also had strep twice, bronchitis twice, and chicken pox once (which didn't make me sick, only itchy), food poisoning a couple times... And that's every disease I've ever had in the 26 1/2 years I've been alive (and I've been in school for 23 of those 26 1/2 years, and large public schools for 16 of those 23 years, including all of grade school).

[zandperl.livejournal.com]

Wow yeah, that's much better than me. I used to get a cold the first week of the semester like clockwork. Paranoid hand washing the past few years has reduced that, but I get a cold or two at random other times of the year now. Sometimes it'll be really mild, but if I feel borderline and I try to push myself through it, it just gets worse and lasts up to a week of non-functioning.