MMR

Yep, I asked for a booster

Back in 2019, for some reason, which neither myself nor my doctor can remember, we checked my measles titer. It was fine, but it was low. Now there was no follow up whether I was given a booster, and honestly if it wasn’t in my records then I probably wasn’t. Now on the other hand, that office has gone through several reorganizations since then and system changes, so it is a probability that some information may have gotten lost, but I doubt it. How effective would a medical practice be if they lost their medical information on patients?

Why can’t I remember? Well shortly after I had the titer done, this little thing called COVID happened and it sort of messed with my remembrance of things medicine passed. Well not, the breast cancer thing, of course, but the more mundane everyday health things, the normal every day just sort of took a back seat.

Meanwhile, the husband has joined AARP and he gets these notices and articles. He likes to forward them to me, then he texts me that he sent them, then when he comes upstairs from his office, he mentions he sent articles to me and then he asks if I had a chance to read them. He also forwards cute videos on Youtube, recall announcements, and anything involving household issues that he thinks is relevant to our daily functioning.

So one of the latest articles happened to be a discussion of the measles outbreak in Texas and New York. It mentioned that there may be an issue with your measles immunity if you had gotten your shots in a particular year. Now for the boys, here in NY it is required to have your measles vaccine before starting college. So they had gotten tested and my oldest did have to have a booster at the time.

But as far as me, I simply couldn’t remember what I had chosen to do 5 years ago. So the doctor said he could test my titer again, but I interjected that I had read that the vaccine can’t really harm you (he agreed), other than a few side effects, and honestly I don’t want to keep coming back and forth. I have so many things I have to do all the time, actually going to the doctor, any doctor, is a big schedule revamp, so could he maybe just give me a shot since we know my immunity was low anyway. And yes, I got the MMR booster.

So is this strange? In today’s day and age someone asking for a booster shot. (Listen I remember when The Lancet, that august English medical journal that seems to be lately channeling Reinhard Heydrich* on the Jews, came out with the fallacious article how the MMR causes autism and all hell broke loose in the world of childhood vaccines. [Bobby Jr has been at his vaccine skepticism for quite a few decades] My younger son, actually did his high school senior year presentation about it. I still remember his final line,” No vaccines do not cause autism. Besides, I am autistic and there is nothing wrong with me.”)

The doctor was actually kinda surprised that they had the vaccine in his office since it is a geared towards children. But, the office manager obviously ordered some. Maybe I’m not the only adult who wants to make sure that they don’t get sick with measles.

(I actually had mumps as a kid, but they don’t make separate vaccines anymore. I learned that when my oldest was getting his booster. His titer was low for measles, but not for mumps, and we wanted him to only have the measles vaccine. However, try as they might, the doctor couldn’t find a singular vaccine. He had to get the full MMR. Not that it hurt him, but in truth all those years ago, was the beginning of society questioning not the efficacy of a vaccine, but whether it was necessary to put more antigens in your body than was needed. In truth, it couldn’t really hurt him. Extra protection from mumps for a grown man is a good thing.)

Well meanwhile, today I am working and just not feeling up to par. I actually got up really early and had planned to exercise before starting work. But chose to just log into my office platform early instead. Did not have the energy to exercise.

Yet, all day it felt like I was a bit off. Weird, sort of in a fog. A little warm, tummy upset, and joint achy.

(Now I did sign up for a later Peloton class, which I blew off to write this post, too. Which I would never do under normal circumstances. Exercise comes even before writing. Which is kinda sacrilegious being that this is written on substack. )

I did mention to the hubby that I wasn’t feeling so great all day. He told me he was sorry and asked if there was anything he could do.

Then it dawned on me.

I had completely forgotten I had had the MMR yesterday, and that they said there could be mild side effects. Slight fever, sour stomach, and my left arm, the injection site, was hurting.

But one of the side effects isn’t forgetting that you had gotten the jab the day before.

I kid you not.

I had completely obliterated the memory chain that I had asked the doctor to inject me with a live virus.

I told the hubby that I had blotted out the MMR.

I seriously can’t believe how old I am that I forget things like being stuck with a needle in the back of my bicep from one day to the next. Of course it’s perfectly normal to forget why you walk into one room from another (I don’t do that, well not yet anyway), that is to be expected, but forgetting that you had a vaccine the day before is bordering on dotage.

Well, in all honesty, I just guess it wasn’t an earth shattering event. And subconsciously since I knew I had done something good for myself, I opted to not worry about it.

Besides, there was alot going on today, other than my latest injection.

I had made corned beef and cabbage last night (yes, because it was St. Patrick’s Day) and burned my finger. While the meat was simmering I accidently dropped a fork in the pot and without thinking put my finger in to retrieve it. WELL DON’T DO THAT. You will burn yourself. I did jump back really quickly and immediately put ice on the burn, but it wasn’t enough. It really hurt (duh). Luckily, since I am prone to burning myself in the kitchen, we have OTC burn medicine all labeled in a box in the first aid cabinet, so it’s easy to find. I had an aloe pad covered by a huge paster on my index finger all night and into the morning. (I’m fine, now. There is no residual burn. But I still can’t believe I did that. I had only had a few sips of wine at the time, too. So no, I have no excuse for being so absent minded.) I was actually more worried about the “burn” than this nagging ache in my arm.

There was work for me, today.

There was work for hubby, today.

Son started his internship today, yes it’s at remote so that’s good. (And of course I was all nervous for him. He did good.)

Other son had his equine therapy barn where he goes to help take care of the horses.

Trump said some more batshit crazy stuff today when it came to judges and pardons. Causing the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court to publicly chastise the President. So that was all over the news.

The ADL put out a report showing how antisemitic/antiIsrael editors have manipulated Wikipedia for over a year. (But we all knew that since these same editors booted the ADL as a source, but somehow the news arms of Hamas/Qatar/Hezbollah are great sources of truth on Israel and Jews.) That wasn’t on the national news, because well, it was just about Jews.

And the October War has started again. Those were the headlines that greeted me when I went to sleep.

(I started crying, I won’t hide that fact. Not that I didn’t expect it to happen at sometime in the future. Not that I didn’t know it wasn’t going to happen again. Anyone with any functioning brain knew it was going to happen. Hamas refused to release any more Israeli hostages and then tried to come between the US and Israel with the lie about releasing that one remaining American hostage only. [We can talk about this in another post] But my heart breaks. Not because Israel is wrong, but because she has no choice, and has the right, to stop those genocidal vermin at her border. Apparently, Hamas was reforming to attack Israel again like they did on October 7. I mean seriously how stupid could they be that they thought Israel was just going to let that happen again.)

And of course, when I woke up there were all the antisemitic lies with the media manipulation in full swing. It’s like they are all reading from the same Qatar embossed cue card.

So yeah, a little shot in the arm I guess didn’t take up that much space in the memory quadrant of my brain.

But my left bicep really does hurt now all of a sudden. (Tylenol, yeah gonna be a grown up and get me some.)

UPDATE: The husband got his MMR buster today. He went to his primary doctor. (Yes, we have different doctors) They told him he could develop a rash, fever, aches in 7-10 days. My doctor’s office said I could develop a fever, aches, maybe a rash within 24-48 hours. We figured that maybe they are different versions of the vaccine, so there are different timetables. Either that, or one of us got told the wrong information. (sigh)

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• Reinhard Heydrich, chief of the Reich Security Office, one of the architects of the Holocaust. (later assassinated by partisans in Czechoslovakia leading to the destruction of the town of Lidice.)