Report from my doctor (just had the flu and promptly got hubby in for a flu shot so he doesn't get it) is that the flu shot is effective for this year's flu virus, so as long as you don't have a compromised immune system you should be ok if you got the shot. A bunch of my team at work were sick last week including me. By show of hands at our meeting today, everyone who got sick had not gotten the flu shot!
Hello fellow Texan! Glad you guys had better luck than we did. I work at a psychiatric hospital. The hospital offers all employees the flu shot, but does not require it. At the moment, my unit is on an almost skeleton crew due to employees out with colds and flu. The other day my nurse manager went in the med room and pulled those forms you have to sign when you get or refuse the flu vaccine. He then sent an email and also met with each shift to tell us that every single person who had refused the flu shot is currently out sick, but so are some who took the flu vaccine.
I've been lucky so far, but have an elderly mother with alot of health problems who lives with me that I am worried about. My youngest GS is 21 months old. A few weeks ago, he had a few sniffles and runny nose, so my D-I-L took him in to his pediatrician. He round up being OK and had just a mild cold, but unfortunately they came in contact with alot of people in there, who were very ill. For some reason my youngest GS never got any sicker, but his dad (my son) round up in the ER with pneumonia and both my D-I-L and their elder son (4 y/o) got the flu. Only the baby missed it. You'd think he'd be the one to get it first.
Of course, as soon as his elder brother and mom came down with the flu, his other grandmother came and got him, but he'd already been exposed.
Thanks for that tip!!! I will be stocking up on that tomorrow and making everyone here guzzle it up!!!!! I'll try anything that might work! We've been pumping vitamins like crazy too
I just read an article about the flu and at the bottom of it was a space for comments. People were recommending all sorts of things to ward off the flu: 3000mg of Vitamin C with 6 garlic pills during the first two hours you feel yourself coming down with the flu ("to kill the virus"), 5000 IU Vit D, Zinc, Selenium taken along with 400 IU Vit E, and onion soup.
I think it would help if people who are sick would just stay in. My D-I-L's parents own a large day care. The day her mom picked our GS up, she called me and we got to talking about this. She said everyday, they are having to send kids home, because the stupid parents are sending them in sick. I'm not talking sniffles. They are trying to send them in with fevers, chills, really bad coughs, runny noses, wheezing, crying, looking really pale and sick. The parents are saying they have to work and have no where else to leave the kids and get mad when the daycare tells them they can't leave them. Some have tried to just quickly drop the sick kid off at the door and sneak out, then get mad when the daycare calls them at work to come get the kid. Sorry, but a busy daycare is no where to leave a contagious kid! My eldest GD is in high school and she says alot of kids are out, but some are still coming in sicker than a dog, because they don't want to miss or because their parents are insisting they go in. So it's parents of everyone from babies to high schoolers that don't have any common sense. I went the other day to get my nails done and the lady in the chair next to me was coughing her head off the entire time we were there. She was flushed, wheezing, and clammy looking and you could tell she had a temp. When the nail tech said something about her being sick, she groaned and said she had the flu, but "I still have to get my fingers and toes done, don't I?" At the exact same time, a couple of customers, said "no you don't. You need to be home in bed instead of spreading this stuff around." She said she thought the massage chair and hot water and massaging of a pedicure might make her feel better and she lived real close so didn't have to drive far. She didn't even think about all the people in the salon that she was exposing.
I know we could get it anywhere here in town/work, but being so far away with a sick child is not fun. We've had our FLU shots, but some aren't working against Strain A (I think) .... We can't get our money back on the room. If we could we would just cancel. I guess all we can do is be careful and PRAY!! and stay off the buses! lol I wonder how often Disney sanitizes rides/buses and things??? Prob never. I re-clean with clorox and spray a can of lysol in every room we stay in, no matter where we go. Then LEAVE for the rest of the day for it to do it's thing! If we wouldn't look like weirdos I would get us all masks and gloves to wear in the parks! 
We were all sick all the way through Christmas 
