Flu shot

[cjsmith]

OW.

I barely felt the flu shot when it was administered. (It was an injection of inactivated virus, not the FluMist thing with attenuated. I suspect the tech was skilled.) But now, oh MAN does that shoulder ache. Every year I forget about this part. I'm glad I got it in my left arm. I'm mousing with my right.

She used a 25ga needle. The ones I use for Duchess, my diabetic cat, are 30ga, so I know what those look like; what I barely felt was bigger than those. Well done.

Duchess doesn't seem to mind hers a bit, but I'm still wondering if I can't develop some of that skill, that deftness used by good needle-wielders to lessen the sting. I have a great opportunity to practice, right?

Comments

[billeyler.livejournal.com]

Coming from someone (me) who used to grow faint at the sight of a needle in an arm, I'm with ya.

I'll probably cave in time, but I've yet to get a flu shot. I remember that my father used to get bed-ridden ill for 3 days after his mandatory flu show while in the Air Force. I didn't want to be subjected to that. Apparently, what they use for flu shots is very different nowadays, but still...

Hope you heal up quickly!

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

I still do. My doctor laughs at me. My cats laugh at me. :-) And here I'm thinking of trying for vet school! What am I, nuts? But I know it can be overcome.

I roll my eyes at the whole "you can't get sick from the flu shot" party line parroted by health care folks. They seem to forget that to most of us "sick" means symptoms, not whether the virus happens to be reproducing! If the whole point of a flu shot is to get your immune system to gear up, then GUESS WHAT you might notice? Sheesh.

Thanks!