btw
I never get the seasonal flu vaccine. But the H1N1 is tempting. Mostly because my mom works in a hospital (medical equipment rental, hospice type stuff) and is pushing the vaccine. Hilariously though (for me), she was originally completely defying my statements to her about it behaving differently than the normal flu bugs (as I described to her, talking about how it is worse in younger, healthier individuals, versus the very young and elderly)... yet, now with more talk of it in the hospital and on the news, it appears she is now saying the same thing. Still doesn't understand what a cytokine storm is, yet constantly argues with me about how she knows more about health issues because she works in a hospital. I love my mom dearly, but we always debate things like that. I'm forever the hypochondriac and wrong about anything regarding health. I research various topics regarding the body constantly - I love learning, when its on my own time and I decide what I want to look at.
But I digress...
H1N1 is something that has me a little anxious. I get something every year, either the flu (or something with flu-like symptoms) or a sinus infection. Annually, I'll have something that gives me a fever higher than 102º, sometimes even with fever reducers in me.
Once I had a sinus infection that started to clear up on its own, turn around and get something that gave me flu-like symptoms, and then the sinus infection came roaring back and worse. Oh that was a fun 6 weeks. Seriously screwed my classes up.
So basically, I'm anxious because... when am I going to get H1N1? I basically feel like its going to definitely happen, considering I live on and go to school at the largest school in the country (Ohio State). And now the Army is starting to make a fuss about prevention techniques too, so we are getting hype from both the school and ROTC. Fun stuff, they're acting like we have a pandemic on our hands.
I guess it's time to see how bad this season will be. I'm very curious myself, as I'm expecting it might get pretty nasty. I might end up getting the vaccine, because as soon as it's available I'll probably never stop hearing it from my mom until I cave in. I already have the meningitis and hepatitis b vaccines, so it's nothing about vaccines. Sometimes I think that somewhere deep inside of my unconscious I actually *want* to be a statistic of a pandemic. That's something quite unsettling now that I actually wrote that. :laugh: