Are ticks and heartworm a concern where you are?
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Pandora — 1 year ago(January 14, 2025 06:39 PM)
I hadn't had an injection since I was a kid so when I found out about needing the Covid vaccine I pretty much had a toddler tantrum … and then when I found out I would need two … and then a booster
I have to have blood taken quite regularly but my doctor gives me anti-anxiety stuff and also a numbing patch to use but I've managed without the patch the last couple of times. It's actually quite stress free to have done here as you have a prescription for the blood test and you go to a walk-in lab without an appointment and it's first come, first serve. The longest I've ever waited is about 20 mins but usually I can be in and out in just ten mins and that includes registering at reception, waiting my turn and then the actual jabbing. It's also only five minutes walk from my flat. -
Dazed — 1 year ago(January 14, 2025 06:59 PM)
Yeah the system is similar where I am, you collect your blood test request papers from the GP surgery then the blood clinic runs every morning from 8 until 9.30. You take a ticket (like the cheese counter in Morrisons lol) and then wait until your number comes up.
The only thing was last two times I got the same nurse who for some reason struggles to find the vein in the usual spot in the crook of the elbow, so she went in through the back of my hand which felt really weird and unpleasant and left my hand bruised for days.
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Lilith — 1 year ago(January 13, 2025 09:57 PM)
I'm absolutely fine with them, especially the ones you mentioned because they have been around for quite a while. I believe the kinks have been worked out if they existed. I know that for me to be in grade school, vaccines were mandatory at that time. A doctor would come to the school and vaccinate all the children at once as well as giving physicals. I was exempt from the school vaccines because I got them all from my pediatrician. I wonder if the school was just providing these free of cost so that healthcare was accessible for all students.
I know someone who had a very bad reaction to the HPV vaccine.
I got the shingles vaccine(s) and while the first one was easy, that booster shot made my entire arm throb for the following 2-3 days. I couldn't raise my arm above my head.
I think anyone who
wants
them should have access to them, and I would not want to see them banned in any capacity. Likewise, I think that people need the freedom to opt out and
choose
for themselves if they do not want to receive jabs of any kind. It's the whole
"compelling"
part that I have a hard time with.
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soapbox original gangster — 1 year ago(January 14, 2025 08:09 PM)
Decades after the fact, my ass muscles still in pain from the Gigantic
used to introduce something like ten-million units of penicillin into the unsuspecting recruits bloodstream. I think the syringe needle contraption was called a " barrel" needle? But whatevs, motherfucker forced big strapping guys on to knees!!
Flashbacking aside, I consider vaccines a necessary evil: intentional putting "poison" into the body for a beneficial outcome.
Here in Florida, we lead the first world in vaccine denial, disinformation, and demonization. The idiot gov appointed some fool state surgeon general who appears to endorse the full spectrum of medical quackery.my fondest hope is that trump taps this witch doctor as us surgeon general and his fatal advice gets adopted by magatards and they begin dying off because of this guys advice
