Well, we managed to get our flu shot today. But not without some hassle, of course. This was the regular old, run-of-the-mill type flu preventer, not the super bug H1N1 Swine flu variety. The H1N1 stuff is here in the county, but we don't qualify for consideration for that, at least yet.
Seems to super stuff is reserved for kids, (don't qualify,) pregnant women, (don't qualify,) health care workers, (don't qualify,)------do you see a pattern showing up here? Just like in Obamessiah's health plan, us older folks seem to be expendable. (Hang on while I have a senior moment.) Maybe eventually, if they get everybody else inoculated, and have vaccine left over to throw away, we will get an opportunity to get stuck with a needle again. (Also too old to use the inhalable variety). Glad I am assured of the future and ready to go.
Getting the regular variety was not nearly as easy as it was supposed to be. We had gotten a coupon from our HMO provider, to cover the cost of the shot, an annual occurence. Several of the pharmacy chains actually began giving shots in early September, but because the coupon happened to mention "after Oct 1", we had not tried earlier. Carol went this morning to the CVS pharmacy walk-in clinic that we had used last year, and which seemed to be included in the HMO mailing, and after doing all of the signin procedure, was informed that they were not giving the shot to BCBS subscribers this year! She made a couple of calls, to no avail, and finally went online to BCBS to get a list of places to go, and the scattered times that they would be operating. So we went to a Costco warehouse, and were taken care of there. It has been a bit (bit???) confusing, to say the least, but is done.
Now we have to avoid contact with anyone carrying the swine flu bugs, to see if maybe we will get the second variety later.
Think I will go have another senior moment.
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