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[Alaskan]

So true, I think it's an antibiotic resitant bacteria. Probably 7 years now. It got old fast.

Wow... so sorry!

I guess you just keep looking for something that will work.

 

[pennyJo1960]

Morning back from wellness exam for BF. SS makes us do them they pay for them ..
Sitting here now vegging out will find food then go clean coops takes like 10 minutes in the heat ..

 

[CapricornFarm]

Wow... so sorry!

I guess you just keep looking for something that will work.

At least I have the tube in my ear so the pus runs out.

 

[Sally PB]

Made it through the physical and blood draw. Now I just have to see what BCBS covers for tomosynthesis mammograms, if they cover them at all. Whee. I wonder how long that phone call will take?

 

[bruceha2000]

Mumps too!

Yep. My sisters and I got all the common viruses, only younger sister got Scarlet Fever though. REALLy glad the polio vaccine came out not long before I was born!!!

 

[cheepteach]

Made it through the physical and blood draw. Now I just have to see what BCBS covers for tomosynthesis mammograms, if they cover them at all. Whee. I wonder how long that phone call will take?

but the hold music is sooo nice!

 

[microchick]

My most memorable vaccine was about 15 years ago when my 'new' doctor in western IL was going over my records and asked me about my small pox vaccine. He couldn't find any record of me getting it. I assured him I had gotten it. Three times to be precise the last time about 20 years earlier. They couldn't get it to take and the doctor told me at the time that I had natural immunity to small pox.

The doctor assured me that was impossible. Nobody was immune to small pox and to prove it he was going to vaccinate me again...for the 4th time. I just shrugged said sure, knock yourself out. He gave me the injection himself and put a circle around it with a magic marker. He wanted to see me a week later, try not to wash off the marker. Plus he noted in my chart the location of the vaccine. I went back. No reaction. Couldn't tell where I'd gotten the shot. Magic marker still there. No scab from the vaccine. He checked every inch of my upper arm, then the other arm in spite of his own notes and shook his head.

'You're immune to small pox!' he announced. 'Really? was my response. He was stunned and speculated that maybe I was exposed to it but never got it. Now we are talking about Small Pox here so not likely. I'm just immune.

Howdy old folk. Getting our daily monsoon here. Still I was able to get a trail cleared before it started raining.

@CapricornFarm. I flinch every time I think about how painful your ear must be. Take care. Feel better.

 

[Sally PB]

but the hold music is sooo nice!

The tech line that I used to have to call at work not only had horrible hold music, it sounded like an old, scratched up recording of horrible music. Shuddering at the memory.

 

[bruceha2000]

The doctor assured me that was impossible.

Um, does he know the history of the smallpox vaccine and the milkmaids that were immune to small pox?

 

[microchick]

Prolly not. He's from India. Unless they taught it in DO school and from his disbelief about my immunity, I think not.

Funny thing was. I wasn't exposed to cattle. City born and raised till I was 7 so I have no idea where my immunity came from as my mom and dad were both vaccinated as was my brother and mom was A) a neat freak and B)the original helicopter mom. When she had a chance for me to get chicken pox from one of my friends when she got sick she refused my friend's mom's offer of a 'sleep over'.

So I don't know what genetic twist was bestowed upon me or where it came from....and no, the milk man had nothing to do with it,