Easy rules for not catching a cold...and thereby wrecking

On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Dudley wrote:

The only time I ever got a flu shot is the year I caught the flu, within a
week of getting the shot. That was the only year in the last 10 that I
caught it during flu season My doctor (a former national team member and
winner of the Gatineau 55) recommends to not get it if you're healthy.

On the other hand, my old coach (ex-US oly. team coach) recommended that
we get the shot. (Rational: if you get the flu, it'll screw up your
season). I've gotten a flu shot every year for the last (10?) years, and
never gotten the flu after getting the shot.

-Ken

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Kenneth Salzberg
Hamline University
School of Law (651) 523-2354
1536 Hewitt Ave.
Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104
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Here's an interesting one from my wife a chiropractor and clinical
nutritionist who suggested we try it on the flight to Europe to ski last
year:

Coat your nostrils with an antibiotic salve.

She's usually not into that kind of thing, but something came over her I
guess.
Seems to me that I got a cold over there. But of course that was after a
marathon and all the related stress.

Gary Jacobson
Rosendale, NY

"Kenneth Salzberg" wrote in message
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Tim Dudley wrote:

The only time I ever got a flu shot is the year I caught the flu, within
a
week of getting the shot. That was the only year in the last 10 that I
caught it during flu season My doctor (a former national team member and
winner of the Gatineau 55) recommends to not get it if you're healthy.

On the other hand, my old coach (ex-US oly. team coach) recommended that
we get the shot. (Rational: if you get the flu, it'll screw up your
season). I've gotten a flu shot every year for the last (10?) years, and
never gotten the flu after getting the shot.

-Ken

************************************************** *********
Kenneth Salzberg
Hamline University
School of Law (651) 523-2354
1536 Hewitt Ave.
Sisu Skier - 50K Club St. Paul, MN 55104
************************************************** ****************

Unfortunately (or more probably my stupidity in doing a small
workout on the rowing machine just after) the one flu shot I got
in the shoulder/upper arm resulted in a several month case of
tendonitis exactly there.

So when I asked for it in the butt instead the next year, the nurses
phoned down to headquarters, who told them it was against the rules.
(They perhaps don't realize that some of us have a large blob of
muscle down there, as opposed to fat---all of us here presumably---so
it would get into the system just fine.) So I haven't had a flu shot,
or a case of the flu, since. I partly rely on my wife getting one,
thereby cutting down the probability for me by a good margin!

Best, Peter

My uncle died the day after I bought eggs so I never buy eggs anymore.
No uncles have died since I quit buying eggs. My doctor (a former
winner on Jepordy) told me to never buy eggs, but to let my wife buy
them.

--- Tim Dudley wrote:
The only time I ever got a flu shot is the year I caught the flu,
within a
week of getting the shot. That was the only year in the last 10 that
I
caught it during flu season My doctor (a former national team member
and
winner of the Gatineau 55) recommends to not get it if you're
healthy.



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Rob Bradlee
Java, C++, Perl, XML, OOAD, Linux, and Unix Training

What kind of science is that?!?


Tim

on 10/17/03 17:19, Rob Bradlee wrote:

My uncle died the day after I bought eggs so I never buy eggs anymore.
No uncles have died since I quit buying eggs. My doctor (a former
winner on Jepordy) told me to never buy eggs, but to let my wife buy
them.

--- Tim Dudley wrote:
The only time I ever got a flu shot is the year I caught the flu,
within a
week of getting the shot. That was the only year in the last 10 that
I
caught it during flu season My doctor (a former national team member
and
winner of the Gatineau 55) recommends to not get it if you're
healthy.



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Rob Bradlee
Java, C++, Perl, XML, OOAD, Linux, and Unix Training

The same science that proves the validity of my dinosaur repellant. I
have not encountered any dinosaurs while using it so it must work.
This kind of proof is close to the kind of logic that proves that
Stevie Wonder is love. The reason is that Stevie Wonder is blind and
it is often said that love is blind therefore Stevie Wonder is love.
--Matt

Tim Dudley wrote in message ...
What kind of science is that?!?


Tim

on 10/17/03 17:19, Rob Bradlee wrote:

My uncle died the day after I bought eggs so I never buy eggs anymore.
No uncles have died since I quit buying eggs. My doctor (a former
winner on Jepordy) told me to never buy eggs, but to let my wife buy
them.

--- Tim Dudley wrote:
The only time I ever got a flu shot is the year I caught the flu,
within a
week of getting the shot. That was the only year in the last 10 that
I
caught it during flu season My doctor (a former national team member
and
winner of the Gatineau 55) recommends to not get it if you're
healthy.




Rob Bradlee
Java, C++, Perl, XML, OOAD, Linux, and Unix Training







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