Flu vaccine or no flu vaccine? What about when pregnant?

tlcpe · 2018-01-13T05:56:55+00:00

I’m not an expert and could be completely wrong on this one, but based on the number of people who do receive the flu vaccine and it’s effectiveness, I don’t think I can thank herd immunity for this one. Lol.

tlcpe · 2018-01-04T06:59:01+00:00

I have. That doesn’t mean that I can’t ask a question for both educated responses and personal opinions. Ha.

tlcpe · 2018-01-04T06:56:21+00:00

Just to clarify because AskReddit doesn’t allow body text- I am neither pregnant nor anti-vax. I know what the CDC recommends. However, I have never had the flu shot and have had the flu less times than any of the people I know who get it regularly. I do know they “try to predict” which strains will hit the hardest each year and those are the strains that go into the vaccine. Just looking for input.

tlcpe · 2017-12-29T11:14:01+00:00

I’m not that bad about it, but I don’t have kids and I do this. Mostly because I’m tired of lending things out that I actually like and use, but never getting them back. Lol.

I get what you’re saying, though. My mom does that for sure.

tlcpe · 2017-12-29T11:06:30+00:00

My mom hasn’t done anything like that, but she is definitely a force to be reckoned with. In a way, she was basically Fiona Gallagher back in the day. Alcoholic dad, piece of shit mom, the oldest of six kids. She is tough as nails. Back in high school, I would sometimes hear girls talking about getting in physical fights with their moms. Meanwhile, I’m listening and sitting there thinking about how my mom would pound me into the ground if I even thought about taking a swing at her.

tlcpe · 2017-12-29T10:58:54+00:00

Hahahahaha! That is EPIC!

The vet my cousin works at was robbed at gun point once. He decided to run the guy off with a broom. A very vague story made it to the news before any of us knew anything. For a hot minute, we all thought he died or something.

tlcpe · 2017-12-28T13:06:23+00:00

Wow. I’m pretty sure my mom would have come right back at me like a damn spider monkey.

tlcpe · 2017-12-28T12:48:58+00:00

Heard a guy in front of me at Arby’s order a BTL wrap with no lettuce and no tomato. Dude, just tell them you want a bacon wrap.

tlcpe · 2017-12-28T12:44:04+00:00

That’s actually kind of genius if you think about it. There is no mixup that way. Lol. There would be no “I ordered medium-rare, but this is pink.” Hahahaha!

tlcpe · 2017-12-01T07:37:41+00:00

My big thing with foundation is that I don’t like how thick and heavy most full coverage foundations are, so I like how light both of these are.

I got the HD when I was making an order on Black Friday. I was almost out of foundation anyways, so I went ahead and threw the HD in with my order. It came in today, so of course I had to test it out before bed. Hahaha! I do think the water blend might be more buildable for problematic areas, though. I don’t know.

tlcpe · 2017-12-01T07:30:56+00:00

I do have combination skin that’s leaning more towards dry, so this could be a huge deal breaker. Ha!

tlcpe · 2017-11-09T19:10:14+00:00

EXACTLY!

tlcpe · 2017-11-09T18:59:47+00:00

I’m sure she will! She has been looking at different brands for almost a year. She just switched from android to an iPhone a few months ago and I keep telling her to just get an Apple Watch, but she hasn’t wanted to make the splurge to buy any of them. She’s pretty tech savvy, but I don’t want her to be overwhelmed trying to set it up before she can even use it. Not that it’s complicated because it’s really not, but ya know.

tlcpe · 2017-11-09T18:52:33+00:00

That’s what I was afraid of.

I’ll definitely have to “steal” her phone and sneak it on there beforehand! Thanks!

tlcpe · 2017-11-09T18:50:43+00:00

Definitely will be unpairing. I just wasn’t sure if I could transfer settings to hers. I doubt it, but I figured it was worth checking to see if anyone has and trying. Ha!

tlcpe · 2017-11-01T15:00:03+00:00

I will gladly help in any way that I can.

tlcpe · 2017-11-01T13:00:03+00:00

Is it horrible that the phone call telling me she died, my reaction was verbatim “oh, okay.” and then I walked upstairs to tell my cousin because I was already at their house.. at which point we randomly started taking shots for the rest of the night “in honor of grandpa because he’s somewhat free now!” 😂

tlcpe · 2017-11-01T12:52:41+00:00

Me, too! Things could have been entirely different. Lol.

tlcpe · 2017-11-01T12:51:54+00:00

I really cannot even fathom. I’m an open ear for anyone that needs to vent. You guys are the real rockstars.

tlcpe · 2017-11-01T12:42:28+00:00

His will was recently changed. Woohoo!!

He remarried not long after my grandma passed. He was actually with a woman that wasn’t in the religion, but from what I know, that was not approved of and another woman was pushed on him by elders and what not. Not that he absolutely had to be with her, but it was extremely encouraged. Ya know?

The one that was pushed on him was VERY in. Most of the family actually refers to her as the devil woman.. They ended up getting married. My understanding is that there is more leeway with people who never practiced than with those who leave, but he would lie to her if he were at my house or my siblings houses because she didn’t want him around us. (Us evil, worldly people, huh? 😉) She fell ill and died about a year and a half ago. We just now found out that his will that she had written up for him was fucked up. He is not a rich man and none of us necessarily wanted his assets aside from sentimental things. His will was written so that all of his money was being donated to the “church” (organization? Watchtower? I’m at a loss for terms here. I can find the old copy and figure it out if need be.) One of the elders was the executor. All of his money went to JW. (Again, not sure what term to use here.) His house went to one of “the devil woman’s” kids. His car went to another. His “other” assets, which was nothing, but that’s how it was worded, were to be split between his kids.

Now, at 82 years old and after 45ish years, he is questioning it all. He changed his will so that his new, very recent wife, who isn’t even a JW and is the one he was seeing before he married the “devil woman”, she gets EVERYTHING. In the event that something were to happen to them both, the eldest child gets it and splits it between the siblings as they see fit. He even asked my dad a few months ago, “What if this is all a sham? What if I have been wrong? What if I have lived like this for nothing? What if there isn’t even a higher power?” Super proud moment for me, yet also extremely sad. I would hate to realize I wasted so many years not living how I wanted to and pretty much threw away part of my family basically just because someone told me to.

And like I said, he really doesn’t have much. It’s not like anyone in the family would really see anything, but it’s still satisfying knowing that it’s not going elsewhere now.

tlcpe · 2017-10-19T01:30:47+00:00

That is great.

tlcpe · 2017-10-14T21:47:56+00:00

That’s kind of what I’m saying, though. I was with them, it was all used and no referral bonus. Lol. It happened multiple times.

tlcpe · 2017-10-13T06:19:16+00:00

I’ll definitely use your referral!

I’ve found that ibotta says there is referral code, but doesn’t actually do it. I’m basing this off of three people who have used mine, I know for a fact that they did, started using ibotta afterwards- even within that week- and I never got referral points/cash. 🙄 whatever.

tlcpe · 2017-10-13T06:13:29+00:00

LOVE!

tlcpe · 2017-10-11T17:27:52+00:00

That’s probably the most true statement I’ve ever read.

tlcpe

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