Brad and Everyone,

You have a very good point there.

I never started getting flue shots until I was a diabetic. That year of
2000, I was diagnosed as a type two Diabetic, I was very sick that year,
all the time I had something, and I didn't feel good for six months.

Vernon never gets them because the shot makes him very sick.

Love,
Pat Ferguson
At 07:51 AM 11/14/03 -0600, you wrote:
>Personally I'm of the mind the less medication the better with our bodies
>ability to become immune to even meds. I like to keep things as natural as
>possible. I might think differently if I had other health issues that would
>turn the flu into a potentially fatal thing. I'll not get a shot myself. It
>is sort of an oxymoron, the idea of getting a flu shot to prevent the flu,
>but the shot itself gives you the flu. Good thing the polio shots we had as
>kids didn't work that way.
>
>Brad
>
>
>
>At 11/14/2003 on Friday, you wrote:
> >Hey, Family
> >
> >I was going to write this privately to Sandy and Roberta (the nurses on the
> >list, sorry if I missed anyone) but thought I'd post to everyone to get your
> >ideas.  We're being given flu shots at work next week and I'm wondering if I
> >should get one.  I never had one before and am wondering if they really do
> >prevent the flu.  It seems to me as if folks get the flu from the shot and
> >if that's true there doesn't seem to be much point though they say you get a
> >milder form of it.  I've heard that flu mutates in the body anyway, so the
> >flu you're getting in the shot won't be the same that folks around you have
> >and you can still catch the mutated form from other folks, so it doesn't
> >seem much point to that either.  But I don't want to get sick.  Grin.
> >
> >So what do you think?  Should I get the shot?  Remember, if I get sick,
> >you'll have to put up with my whining (and you know how bad I am when I'm
> >sick, with nobody to nurse my poor self back to health).  So let me know.
> >Smile.
> >
> >Paul