Lost a friend today

[rahock]

Sorry for your loss pal . Been down this road too many times myself.
Rick

[drbassman]

Sorry for your loss too Uwe.  God bless.

[godofthunder]

  Uwe, The Flu?  Again my condolences to you and your friends family. This scares me to death my daughter is allergic to the flu shot, we sweat out every season.

[rahock]

  Uwe, The Flu?  Again my condolences to you and your friends family. This scares me to death my daughter is allergic to the flu shot, we sweat out every season.

I understand that.
I had spinal meningitis as an adult and ran  in and out of a 107 deree temperature for five days . I was  about as screwed up as you can get and end up still alive. That was without a doubt the  number one as "sick as I've ever been". The number two and three "sick as I've ever been" would be my reaction to flu shots. I'm the kind of guy who will try anything twice but there sure as hell ain't a gonna be a third time on my agenda.
Rick

[fur85]

So sorry to hear about your losing a friend Dave. Leah sounds like she lived a very cool life in a short time, bringing people together to make music.

[uwe]

The flu still kills thousands of people (and not just feeble old ones) every season in a country as medically advanced as Germany. If you react badly to the vaccination then don't do it of course, for all others: It's a comparatively cheap and painless way to perhaps save your life. I've had the flu twice in my life - once in the late nineties (and I've never been as sick as hard and as long, I was still sweating and out of breath three months later) and a couple of years ago when the swine flu hit me and I fevered up to the max within two hours, the good thing about the swine flu was that the worst parts of it only lasted 36 hours - probably due to my regular flu shot, swine flu vaccine wasn't yet available -, the other flu had me in bad "can't find no sleep" fever for more than a week.

It's not just a more severe cold, remember that whether you are vaccinated or not.

[Lightyear]

Sorry for your loss guys - both too stinking young to go. 

[Highlander]

Influenza is still the worlds biggest killer, iirc...

Roll on 2013...

Uwe... beileid...

[Pilgrim]

Sorry to hear it, Dave.