No, I have no intention of getting the vaccine. Thought never entered my mind. It's tuff to say "talk to your doctor" because I think basically they want everyone to get it. It's tuff to say "go to CDC website" and read up on it, because I'm afraid data will be sugar coated. It was recommended that I vaccinate my 14-year-old with Gardasil. I said no way. Nurse says why. I said because I'm not educated on it; never even heard of it until you just said something, will talk to my pediatrician. She says this, I say that, and we go round and round. Sorry, still not doing it. When I got home I briefly read up on it, and, whew, still not doing it. I hate to jump on the bandwagon/be a guinea pig. I am more afraid to be vaccinated than to not be vaccinated. There again we don't have any risk factors in my family, such as asthma, if asthma is indeed a risk factor for a more severe or dangerous course if you were to contract influenza. I'll tell ya, I like to go to yahoo answers and poke around there to see what people are thinking about all issues. Of course, you get the kooks in there, and their info is valuable for a good laugh only. Go to yahoo, click on Answers on the left hand side. Put your question in the search box. With an issue like this, you might want to note how old the question is, which is written on the bottom of the links that you would click on. You don't want to know what people felt 4 years ago about flu vaccine. Jodi > Subject: Survey of sorts OT > From: Kathy Tank <rbuffdogs@xxxxxxxxx> > I am debating taking the H1N1 vaccine this year...I have pretty nasty > asthma, and a case was > confirmed at Hunter's little school, while we were at the Nationals. > Wondering how the rest of you, particularly in the "high risk" group like > me, feel about it? > Kathy > http://www.victorygermanshepherds.com > PUP-DATED: OCT 5, 2009 > Home of: > CH. Elvaston's Nations Cup TC, 26 BOBs > CH. Victory's Leviathan > CH. Garter's E-Male of Fran-Jo Anne Isle ============================================================================ POST is Copyrighted 2009. All material remains the property of the original author and of GSD Communication, Inc. NO REPRODUCTIONS or FORWARDS of any kind are permitted without prior permission of the original author AND of the Showgsd-l Management. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. ALL PERSONS ARE ON NOTICE THAT THE FORWARDING, REPRODUCTION OR USE IN ANY MANNER OF ANY MATERIAL WHICH APPEARS ON SHOWGSD-L WITHOUT THE EXPRESS PERMISSION OF ALL PARTIES TO THE POST AND THE LIST MANAGEMENT IS EXPRESSLY FORBIDDEN, AND IS A VIOLATION OF LAW. VIOLATORS OF THIS PROHIBITION WILL BE PROSECUTED. For assistance, please contact the List Management at admin@xxxxxxxxxxxx VISIT OUR WEBSITE - http://showgsd.org NATIONAL BLOG - http://gsdnational.blogspot.com/ ============================================================================