H1N1 flu vaccine

[blueerica]

I'm actually not getting the vaccine, but mostly because I typically have a bad reaction to them... not flu reaction, but I think it's linked to my mild egg allergy. I've had two in my life, and the most recent was a few years ago when J was on a medication that brought his immune system down.

Now, if I was high-risk, or J was in that situation again, I'd consider it, but otherwise, no. The fact that there's H1N1 doesn't change that. At all.

So I just make sure that I wash my hands, use alcohol-based hand sanitizers (hate the gel stuff, as it's kind of sticky and doesn't dry as fast as it should to really get the job done, so I use a spray), and just take general precaution. I've had two people in my office get diagnosed, and one that didn't get tested, but his doc said "it's probably what you have, but you're not high-risk, so we're not testing you." It didn't seem toooo bad compared to regular flu.