Flu shot blues
Sep. 18th, 2011 09:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
missmaryrI got the flu shot yesterday, and last night I started to regret. This morning I regretted it more.
I am not allergic to the flu shot, though many are. But I do get a mild fever and aches type of reaction to it. Coffee and Tylenol got me over it enough to work in the yard and get some excercise, but now I feel sore again.
The exercise is important, as I am trying to lose weight. I have four pounds to go before I'm not overweight anymore. About two years ago, I lost 19 pounds. Then I regained it after a very unpleasent encounter with a yellow jacket nest (my sons counted twenty wasps that were somewhere on or in my clothes, and I got somehere in the region of fifteen stings. Needless to say I was out of work for a day. Even my doctor felt sorry for me. Recovery involved a predisone taper, and predisone, it appears, makes me hungry. I gained six pounds in a week. Fortunately for me, some of it was water weight from the swelling and it went away quick. The rest was fat, and losing fat is a long and tedious process.
As a result, however, I am finally getting more fit. I am trying to walk a mile and a half to two miles, or work in the yard for an hour every day. Since I have almost an acre of yard to mow with a self-propelled mower, this is not as irritating as it might otherwise be.
As I have asthma, however, a flu shot is a good idea. I don't have bad asthma. I did for a time, and found out later it was due to living in a duplex with mold. The worst of the asthma went away two months after I moved into my brand spanking new modular home. Except for the time I caught bronchitis and it took three months for me to finally get over it.
Getting older is a bitch. I'm sure that is not news to most the the population.
I am not allergic to the flu shot, though many are. But I do get a mild fever and aches type of reaction to it. Coffee and Tylenol got me over it enough to work in the yard and get some excercise, but now I feel sore again.
The exercise is important, as I am trying to lose weight. I have four pounds to go before I'm not overweight anymore. About two years ago, I lost 19 pounds. Then I regained it after a very unpleasent encounter with a yellow jacket nest (my sons counted twenty wasps that were somewhere on or in my clothes, and I got somehere in the region of fifteen stings. Needless to say I was out of work for a day. Even my doctor felt sorry for me. Recovery involved a predisone taper, and predisone, it appears, makes me hungry. I gained six pounds in a week. Fortunately for me, some of it was water weight from the swelling and it went away quick. The rest was fat, and losing fat is a long and tedious process.
As a result, however, I am finally getting more fit. I am trying to walk a mile and a half to two miles, or work in the yard for an hour every day. Since I have almost an acre of yard to mow with a self-propelled mower, this is not as irritating as it might otherwise be.
As I have asthma, however, a flu shot is a good idea. I don't have bad asthma. I did for a time, and found out later it was due to living in a duplex with mold. The worst of the asthma went away two months after I moved into my brand spanking new modular home. Except for the time I caught bronchitis and it took three months for me to finally get over it.
Getting older is a bitch. I'm sure that is not news to most the the population.
