JESSE
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Its flu season in Baja
And i am one of the first to get it, don?t forget to wash the hands, avoid crowded areas, and take your flu shot, this years strain is particulary
nasty the experts say, and i agree with them, i feel like a Dorado after a 30 minute fight with a gringo angler.
Ouch!!
[Edited on 11-29-2003 by JESSE]
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Skeet/Loreto
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Hey Jesse! You fall for that Flu Shot Spin?
I am 72 and have never had a flu shot and will never get one. It is a trick to make you believe tha if they give you a little bit of Flu you want get
any later. BewareSkeet
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Stephanie Jackter
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I'm sold on the flu shot completely.
I get them every year. Getting the pneumonia shot, which lasts 8 to 10 years, is an even better buy. Unfortunately, the flu that's travelling around
this year has mutated from what the shot covers, but the hope is that the shot will have some protective value in lessening the severity of the
symptoms.
Two years ago I got my children immunized even though they weren't being encouraged to get the shot and few children did that year. Along about
February, it hit their school like a freight train and my kids were the only ones left standing.
Contrary to popular myth, the vaccine in the injectable version is a killed virus and cannot give you the flu. And scientists say it's just a matter
of time before we get a killer flu like the epidemic of 1918. Better safe than paranoid if you ask me.
Hope you feel better soon, Jesse. Throw a little cilantro, garlic and chile in your basic chicken soup and it'll help get you back on your feet
soon. - Stephanie
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Family Guy
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Jesse, hope you slip off the hook soon!
I agree with Stephanie. Wife and kids all received their flu shots again this year. Dad still needs to get his. 
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Mil Gracias!
To you Jesse, I'm headed to Loreto to help with my brand new G-child. I will get my shot this week before I leave. Don't want to infect a newborn
with a flu virus!! Could be deadly to say the least. Thanks, Msal
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Skeet/Loreto
Hey Jesse! You fall for that Flu Shot Spin?
I am 72 and have never had a flu shot and will never get one. It is a trick to make you believe tha if they give you a little bit of Flu you want get
any later. BewareSkeet |
Never had one either skeet, but i am begining to doubt my wisdom, i usually get it (the flu) every few years or so, but this year it felt particulary
strong.
Well, the worse is over, got to go back to work tomorrow and you guys take care.
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JESSE
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Sallysouth
To you Jesse, I'm headed to Loreto to help with my brand new G-child. I will get my shot this week before I leave. Don't want to infect a newborn
with a flu virus!! Could be deadly to say the least. Thanks, Msal
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De nada:moon:
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Mike Humfreville
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Flu Symptoms
Like many, I?ve never had a flu shot. I always figured my body was intended to take care of itself and that if I took too many precautions it would
become weaker in some unidentifiable ways.
But early this October we spent time with friends in San Felipe for a day or two, then on to Gonzaga for another two days then to Bahia de Los Angeles
for two weeks. Two hurricanes that passed through days before we arrived and two milder ones were in the vicinity while we were there. The first few
days of our time in Bahia it rained. After the rain the no-see-ums were out and some mosquitoes. Most of us, deet or no deet were covered with small
bites and Bo coup itches in our lower extremities (the weather was nice and we were wearing shorts and bathing suits).
Two days before we left I got a sore throat. It was relatively severe but went away after a few days, to be replaced by a cough and raspy lungs. The
cough grew worse over the first week we were home. It has stayed bad since them. I thought I had a simple cold, but it hasn?t gotten any better.
It?s been almost two months and I still have a rattle in my chest and cough a lot.
I?d have been more worried except for the fact that we live in rural southern California and hundreds of square miles in the immediate vicinity of our
property burned during the late summer fires. Especially with the east winds (in L.A. they?re called Santa Ana?s) blowing ash into our home daily I?m
not too worried about my continuing problem. And I don?t know if these symptoms sound like the flu anyway.
So maybe next year, just to be certain and because I?m aging (60) I get one.
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Stephanie Jackter
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Mike, you need to go see the doctor
You could easily have either a nasty case of bronchitis or a case of walking pneumonia. Don't mean to scare you, but better to get it checked out
than wind up in the hospital or with permanently damaged lungs from trying to ignore the problem. - Stephanie
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got mine, no side effects
I too always scoffed at flu shots, had always turned them down when they were offered free of charge at work. But I changed my mind this year as there
are a lot of people coming down with it, and I realize we have travel plans! but had to pay 20 dollars for one (that's 15.40 US) as retirement now has
me firmly in its emancipating grasp! Some staff at the local hospital have been sent home without pay until they got one, or take the orally
administered alternative that's fast-acting- but reputed to be pretty hard on a person. The vacine takes up to two weeks to become fully effective.
Haven't heard yet of anybody near where I am who's had a shot and then later contracted it although when I got mine the nurse advised that some people
feel an aftereffect within two or three days. I did not. Two strains of it have been identified here, last I heard. Hope its not too late for some you
who are thinking of getting one, as this year's season came along much earlier than in most past years.
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Mike H. Please go and have your chest xrayed. Your symptons are the same as happened to me several years ago in Loreto. It turned into a bad case of
Bronchitis and then into Asthma caused by Cement Dust. Bronchitis is easy to treat . Skeet/Loreto
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bajalera
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Mike, put me on that list of people who suggest you see a doctor. I toughed out six weeks of what seemed to be just a miserable cold--assuming that
not having a fever means you aren't really sick--and ended up spending 5 days in the Albuquerque VA hospital, with doctors telling me that walking
pneumonia can kill ya. (I didn't know there was such a disease!)
This board needs your level head . . .
Lera
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