The first death from flu of a California child has just been reported. Is your family protected or are you playing Russian Roulette?

Feel better soon Bro!

I sure hope so Sis! Thank you. 

Did you ever consider that the flu you got would have been much worse without the shot? Thank you for your reply Rooster and Happy Saturday! The older you get the less you can afford to play Russian Roulette! :)

You're right Rosie! Stubborn old guy sometimes!

Naw! You're steadfast and focused and determined. Way better than stubborn Rooster! Don'tcha think?

I reckon so Ma'am! 

 I reckon so too! :)

The older you get the less you can afford to gamble and play Russian Roulette. Thank you for your reply H2BH2 and Happy Saturday to you! :)

May your good luck continue. The older you get the less you can afford to play Russian Roulette!  Thank you for your reply m2c! :) This post was edited by RosieG at January 21, 2017 9:38 AM MST

I know sweetie. Sometimes a cure for one thing positively affects another thing as a side benefit. Of course sometimes the opposite occurs too! Thank you for your reply Karen and Happy Saturday! :)

I know. I'm just wired differently. I've had more than one doctor tell me they have no idea what's wrong with me. I can have more than one physical reaction to something, and they can't find the cause.  After tests, they said X should have happened, but Y is evident. Most pain medication doesn't work on me either, morphine might as well be a placebo. When my back froze up on me and I ended up in the ER, they gave me 3 or 4 shots of morphine and nothing happened, the pain was still there and I didn't even get a buzz from it. When I had neck surgery, they gave me a morphine drip after, nothing. Hydrocodone doesn't work either, neither does Tramadol. When I have had injuries and they give me a prescription for either one of those, I just throw it away and buy some extra strength aspirin.   

I am the same way with pain killers morphine after csection nothing. I forget what they gave me for my neck after surgery nothing. I have taken my husbands tramadol and oxycodone and nothing.
I also have a high tolerance for pain so I don't know if that has to do with it or not. Strangely the only thing I have found to work everytime for me is 4 aspirin (I get the cheap ones from the Dollar Tree) must be 4 any less and nothing. 

My pain tolerance is pretty high as well. I found out last night that I have cousins who are the same. My cousin had surgery yesterday and I was in his room when the nurse came in asking him about his pain, whatever they were giving him wasn't working. He said the above mentioned didn't help him either. His brother had gall bladder surgery last year and had the same problems with pain meds not working. I guess it runs in my family. Mepergans do work well for me, but they don't give them anymore. Tylenol 3's work somewhat, they put me to sleep though. :)

I think it probably has to do with natural pain tolerance. Maybe our natural body takes care of whatever the meds would. My kids seem to be very effected by meds just a little makes them get loopy.