Bring on the Swine!!
by Toby - November 14th, 2009.Filed under: Life.
In preparation to my triumphant return to the promised land (believe it or not, I have co-workers who don’t like me referring to the U.S. as the promised land), I went ahead and did something I wouldn’t normally do: I got myself immunized. Against the flu, and against the swine flu.
Normally, I just figure that I’m as immortal as any other American male under the age of forty, and so. . . hey, what is there to worry about? But, there was the first death–a four year old boy–in my hometown and. . . well, Leon is so cool that I just didn’t think it was worth taking any risks. And, since they don’t recommend immunizing a child until they’re six months old, the advice we got–on both sides of the pond–was to immunize ourselves so that we weren’t going to bring any germs into contact with our favorite infant.
So, we did.
Side effects? Well, I got an immunization in each shoulder. . . and I have to say that the swine flu side is the one that’s sore. (Christine, who has it worse, says that they injected the whole pig. She’s having trouble using that arm.) Other than that, I’m fine. I’m postponing any ‘real’ exercise until Monday at the earliest and, well, we’ll see. Christine, like I said, isn’t too thrilled about the whole thing.