Things I'm happy about today

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volfanbill said:
Yep. At basic they just lined us all up. I got like 8 shots in one day and 3 more a couple days later
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I got a ton of vaccs in high school when we traveled several times to Asia in the 70’s. Bubonic plague! Typhoid fever! Cholera! Yellow fever! Lord knows what else. Rabies when I worked for a vet. One of the Heps when I worked in hospital. More of the same, including the other Hep, when we went to Cuba last winter (Havana Jazzfest.) Yearly flu shots. And then whooping cough booster when first grandson was born four years ago.

I may glow in the dark, but nothing seems to be too messed up.
 
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volfanbill said:
For smallpox? I’ve got one of those. Looks like someone burned me with a lit cigarette
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Mine is on top of my shoulder cause they gave it to me too far up on my arm. When I was little I remember other kids saying I didn't get the shot.

Looking at the scar it seems like it would hurt, a lot.
 
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vollygirl said:
Mine is on top of my shoulder cause they gave it to me too far up on my arm. When I was little I remember other kids saying I didn't get the shot.

Looking at the scar it seems like it would hurt, a lot.
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What I recall (other than the scared little kid part) is that it was sort of a scratched-up area of skin, that’s now the scar, and that’s where the vaccine was applied. So not a shot like everything else is these days. But Lord knows I have slept since then.
 
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82_VOL_83 said:
Wasn't that the TB shot?
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The tb test injects the tb just below your skin and you have to go have it checked a couple days later to make sure there’s not a reaction to it.

Smallpox vaccine scabs over, eventually the scab goes away and your left with a weird tiny circular scar.

This reminds me though that the Army hasn’t given me a TB test in a hot minute. Guess they’ll be hounding me for one soon
 
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volfanbill said:
The tb test injects the tb just below your skin and you have to go have it checked a couple days later to make sure there’s not a reaction to it.

Smallpox vaccine scabs over, eventually the scab goes away and your left with a weird tiny circular scar.

This reminds me though that the Army hasn’t given me a TB test in a hot minute. Guess they’ll be hounding me for one soon
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I can't even find my smallpox scar anymore.
 
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volfanbill said:
Unfortunately. And it’s an incredibly tough market right now
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The Fiddler's Convention is in Galax this weekend. I'm sure you could shanghai some of the completely inebriated participants to help make quota. They would probably only be useful for parachute testing or siphoning gas. I get the giggles thinking about those guys and gals waking up in Lackland with a shaved head.
 
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