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In my nature, in my blood
And this year for Saint Patrick's Day I got a booster shot, because if I can't drive out the snakes from my local area (and I like snakes, so I wouldn't do that), at least I can avoid getting mumps.
(My last MMR booster was in 1992. I had bloodwork done last week to check whether the immunities were still active. Measles, yes; mumps and rubella, no. Interestingly, the last is still considered of special concern to female-bodied people of childbearing age. Either way, I don't want any.)
It will take about two weeks for my body to build up the necessary antibodies. Remind me not to get mumps before then.
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derspatchel isn't immune to mumps either. He's getting his shot this afternoon. This is possibly more ridiculous than the fact that he can wear my glasses.
(My last MMR booster was in 1992. I had bloodwork done last week to check whether the immunities were still active. Measles, yes; mumps and rubella, no. Interestingly, the last is still considered of special concern to female-bodied people of childbearing age. Either way, I don't want any.)
It will take about two weeks for my body to build up the necessary antibodies. Remind me not to get mumps before then.
In other news of the Outer Antipodes,
derspatchel isn't immune to mumps either. He's getting his shot this afternoon. This is possibly more ridiculous than the fact that he can wear my glasses.
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And, I'm glad you'll avoid getting mumps. And Derspatchel should definitely avoid getting mumps as well.
Please also, while you're at it, get yourself immunized against pertussis/whooping cough, as that seems like something you'd be susceptible to, and it's not pleasant.
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It's been in my head all afternoon. It's one of the songs that feels like it would make a great vid, but I don't know what for.
Please also, while you're at it, get yourself immunized against pertussis/whooping cough, as that seems like something you'd be susceptible to, and it's not pleasant.
I had whooping cough in high school: it went through the student body just as my initial vaccine expired and before I could have gotten a booster shot. It was very, very bad. I have vivid memories of coughing so hard I couldn't stand, collapsing to my knees, the sense of my body locked against itself and the sounds my throat made, raling to get a breath in. It started in the spring; I had to drop out of track and field. For months afterward, I was coughing. I like to think I had my immunization reupped after that, but it's true that I haven't checked. [edit] Lo, it's in my online records! I had the Td in October of 1996—that would be after the cough finally cleared—and the DTaP in 2006, so I should be covered for diphtheria, pertussis, and tetanus. In other news, I forgot I'd been vaccinated against meningitis. I was last tested for TB in 1999.