Also born in 1957 and caught it when I was 32. I’ve never been so sick. Ceaseless headache, light sensitivity, high fever, endless vomiting… then caught a secondary bronchial infection.
It’s the only time my doctor called me daily to see how I was doing.
Seconded: Get the shot.
From the CDC recommendations:
I usually recommend getting a titer. Then you have documentation of immunity. If the titer is negative, get the shot.
We’ll both be getting the shot tomorrow, assuming the CVS has received their order of MMP vaccines. It takes care of the whole question with one trip and one needle stick, and the CVS is a quarter mile from our house.
I read that the Vancouver/Portland outbreak now stands at 44 infected people, and places of possible contagion include the Portland airport. I’m glad you tested immune to MM&R, Smartie.
You and me both, sister! In addition to the airport, the plaguedogs hit IKEA, Costco, OMSI, Rejuvenation Hardware, a fucking sold out Blazers game (upwards of 20K people exposed!), every urgent care and emergency room in Vancouver, several churches, a whole school district that’s under siege and one wonderful adult went to all kinds of meetings and restaurants all over town before taking his virus load back to where he came from, again via the airport. It’s really scary how much people get around when they’re carrying infectious diseases, y’know?
They couldn’t have toured a selection of more ideal infection vectors than if they had planned out a deliberate itinerary.
Of those 20,000 people at that Jan 11th game - how many have come down with measles? Zero from what I read.
It can take up to three weeks from exposure to diagnosis.
It’s also NOT THE FUCKING POINT. The point is that absent some damned good medical reason why they aren’t able to be vaccinated, it should be IMPOSSIBLE for someone to be attending heavily trafficked events while shedding virus that is pretty fucking close to being THE most infectious virus on the planet. They don’t get to decide for others–I mean, what if it was fucking Make A Wish day at the Blazers game, where all the cancer kids undergoing chemo get in free? Or if a few hundred babies were in attendance, all under the age where they can be vaccinated? OMSI is a fucking KID’S MUSEUM, full of kids and their younger siblings too young for the MMR vaccine. That’s the fucking POINT of vaccinations, to supply herd immunity to those who are unable to be vaxxed.
I mean, are you taking note of the fact that the numbers of cases is rising steadily? That it’s about twice as many active cases as a week ago? If that math continued, it would be a FUCKING SHITSHOW in this town in very short order–because stupid people don’t take simple precautions that any sane person understands are necessary to the general good. Because most people aren’t fucking sociopaths with that entitled goddammit “I got mine, fuck you” attitude.
The CVS who said they’d order MMR vaccines not only didn’t have them, but they had no record of me calling nor who spoke to me about them. They sent us to a nearby Safeway, saying that they had lots, but none were to be found there, either. Finally, a second Safeway said they had some and we finally got our vaccinations.
The young woman pharmacist there was totally amazed that there was a measles outbreak in the PNW. She had not heard a thing about it.
Any reason why you’re going through a pharmacy for this? I’d think your family practice doc would have plenty of doses in stock and should be able to schedule in for a quick nurse appointment to get the jab. Or an urgent care clinic maybe?
I think the pharmacy route may be cheapest. No nurse or Dr.
Not sure how insurance would figure in.
#1. I agree if your sick you should not be out in public. However that brings up the question of for example, can a person get a refund of their tickets for medical reasons or is there a mechanism for persons to get groceries if they are ill? Many colleges have to deal with this if say for example, a student has the flu and cant make class or even go to the cafeteria for meals. Can stuff be brought to them or can they put their roommates up in other places?
#2. Persons who are terrible at risk of catching something like the chemo patients you mentioned, also rarely go out and if they do, they usually wear masks because their are MANY diseases out there.
#3. Because of risks, do they even have such promotions?
Not accurate. People in chemo and others with suppressed immunity still need to work, gas the car, go to the facility where they’re getting chemo, etc. /person who had chemo who works with people with HIV and people in chemo
We wanted to get our shots on a Saturday, so that if the vaccine made us feel kind of poopy the next day (like they often do), we’d have all of Sunday to get over it. A doctor’s visit would incur taking some time off of work, too. The pharmacist’s shot was completely covered by our insurance, BTW.
And I am feeling a little icky today. Glad it’s a Sunday and I don’t have to focus on anything more important than the Puppy Bowl.
It’s not just cancer patients on immunosuppressive drugs that are at particular risk of catching vaccine-preventable diseases.
Add in children and adults with congenital immune deficiencies and people with a variety of chronic illnesses requiring immunosuppressive medications (for autoimmune diseases, for example) and there are lots of people who may not ordinarily require a mask when out in public (masks can be quite unpleasant when you need to wear them for long periods, by the way) who depend on the rest of us to be as up-to-date on immunizations as possible and not to go out in public when we’re sick or think we might be coming down with something infectious.
Well, glad you got your shot even if you do feel a little bleah from it–better to have immunity and not need it than to need it and not have it! Plus, how awful would it be to pick the virus up here and take it back to the Bay Area–which is also a hotbed of anti-vaxxers.
I guess I’m really spoiled with being on Kaiser because I can call up and get something scheduled as a drop in at super convenient hours. They do have their downside, but for bog standard routine preventative care they’re stellar.