<p>I didn’t want to hijack the thread of the college student who suddenly died from meningitis ( but I did think- if only she had gone to Princeton -Plainsboro instead of UPenn)</p>
<p>My mother and sister both get flu shots every year & they actually get ill more often and more severely than I do.
I don’t get them- even though my insurance company stresses that those with asthma do get them.
I just make sure I wash my hands & I try and avoid other peoples fluids 
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<p>I do wish we had more transparency/knowledge about what vaccinations actually do- what they don’t do and how to optimize their efficacy ( and when they are being pushed because the pharmacutical company wants to up profits)</p>
<p>Let alone the diseases for which we don’t have consistent treatments/vaccines for.</p>
<p>[Like</a> Dengue Fever.](<a href=“http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003909387_ghana28m.html?syndication=rss]Like”>http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003909387_ghana28m.html?syndication=rss)</p>
<p>Scary enough that my D is starting on an extensive series of shots that she last stopped because of side effects, and then some because she is also going to Ghana in four months.
I was mostly worried because she gets heat stroke during Seattle summers ( it seems to be a complication of sensory disorder)</p>
<p>I don’t think that I am a “worrier”- and I am getting through this the way I got through having my oldest in intensive care for 8 weeks when she was born. Just doing what I can- and focusing on that.</p>
<p>But- I also expect disease to be in the news more frequently, with the increasing mobility of everyone-as we crowd onto a planet that is getting smaller .</p>