Will you get a flu shot this year or next?

I've had the for-real flu a few times in my life. Kicked my a$$ so hard in late 1970 that I was hospitalized with it for 5 days. 105 fever, couldn't stand up without passing out, and so forth.

Other flu bouts have been less terrible but each was at least a week of misery.

If I contract the flu, I want it to be as light a case as possible. Arming my immune system with flu-strain specific antibodies are my best defense should the virus nasties invade.

DH & I will get our flu shots the first week of October on a day when we have nothing planned the following day. We usually have mild symptoms after a vaccine so schedule couch time for the next 36 hours.
 

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I got one each fall until around 2007. Would get the flu every year late in the season. Since I stopped, (knock on wood) I haven't had the flu. My guess is that with my autoimmune disorders, the flu shot ramped up my immune system, then it dropped off sharply. It's the only way I can halfway make sense of the spring flu pattern when I did get the shots.
 
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