FluMist Vaccine

I am sooo not the world's best when it comes to getting shots. You think I would be having to be pricked every 3 months to check my thyroid levels. I guess I am getting used to that, or maybe it's just that I deal with it because it's something that I have to do to be and stay healthy.

I was kind of excited when I heard they were coming out with a mist vaccine. I thought that it had to be better then getting a shot, right? Wrong. At least in my world.

Work finally got the shipment of the flu vaccine yesterday. It's the regular one, not the H1N1. In the last couple days, I've been on the fence about getting it because I've never had anything sprayed up my nose. The only thing I've had stuck in my nose have been the cannula (sp) (those little tubes they stick in your nose for oxygen) - in the recovery room after all my surgeries, and I had a hard time dealing with those.

Anyway, I finally got the nerve to go down and get it. The nurse knows how I feel about shots so she thought I was happy about getting the mist. So she gives me the spiel and the paperwork to sign. Told me it would be a mist feeling and not a stream feeling and I would feel it hit the back of my throat. I take a deep breath and tell her I'm ready. I'll spare you the details, but it was really not fun at all and I had to go through it twice because it's sprayed in both nostrils.

Seriously, I really think I would enjoy the shot more and hopefully, next years' dose will be the shot and not FluMist.