TDAP is a combination vaccine that protects against three potentially life-threatening bacterial diseases: tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis (whooping cough).
When I went to my yearly allergy appointment last week, my allergist told me she was seeing a lot of cases of Whooping Cough. “We call it the 100-day cough,” she said. “We can knock it out with antibiotics, but patients keep coughing for months.” My allergist recommended that I get a TDAP shot so I called my internist and scheduled a shot. When it came time to jab me, the nurse told me, “Your arm is going to hurt all weekend long.” Good to know. And, also true!
Despite the pain, I’d rather not get Whooping Cough. Have you had a TDAP shot?
My Dr. says it bothers him to see a man like me in good health when every day decent folk suffer & die.
Dan, when I last saw my internist for my yearly physical, he told me, “You’re the healthiest patient I’ve seen today.” Clean living does wonders!
Congratulations, george!
Dan, maybe it’s time to get off the Trump Diet! He eats like crap and so far is not dead either.
No, I never heard of the TDAP shot. I had a tetanus shot two years ago. We got part two (part one was last year) of the Pneumonia Shot last week, along with the latest Flu Shot. So far, no flu, so I guess it works! We had no problem last year, but both of us had an extremely sore arm this year, both from the pneumonia shot, surprisingly, unless the nurse messed up which arm she said she was jabbing. Since it was my right arm, I couldn’t sleep on it that first night so rolled around for hours. After 48 hours or so it subsided.
Our blood work came back fine, and we got all our prescriptions, and we had our biannual dental checkups. Just one more, Jackie getting her hand/wrist checked this week, and we’re set for Florida!
Hope you enjoy Florida, Jeff and Jackie!
We have fond memories, often I went to Florida (Miami Beach, Ft Myers Beach, even Sanibel once) in late November/December when prices for us European guests (hotels and flights too) were really good – before the season started and the “Christmas geese” came …
Sorry, but that joke just had to be! 🙂
“Snow birds” is the official name I think for those who flee the icy North and spend the winter in Florida.
Wolf, one of my sisters is a “snow bird.” She lives in Clearwater, Florida during the winter and returns up here to spend the Summer.
Jeff, sounds like you’re Good to Go! I just came in from snowblowing my driveway and the sidewalks. Four inches of heavy, wet snow! And, it’s still falling!
George, this reminds me of our fantastic holiday in Niagara Falls and the “Frozen Falls”!
Wish you all the very best- be careful with your snowblower, especially if you have to blow the neighbours’ sidewalks too. Hope it’s not too hard work …
We have in Hungary right now lovely sunshine and 12 degrees centigrade (more than 53 Fahrenheit) – doesn’t feel like Chrismas at all.
Today for lunch we invited an old friend of my wife – she’s originally from South America but grew up in The USA, married and divorced a Hungarian and now lives in Hungary nearby because her dollars are worth more here …
We talked a lot about living in the USA – she worked in San Francisco, Texas and New York City where her daughter now lives. The world’s a small place!
Wolf, Happy Holidays to you and your family! It’s 29 degrees here. We expect snow tonight so we’ll have a white Christmas tomorrow!
In Europe shots for tetanus and diphteria are quite common but I hadn’theard yet about this combo.
As an animal owner who was also bitten oor scratched by other animlas I’ve had of course my tetanus shots – they’re documented in my “injection passport” which most people have.
OT story:
In late 1945 I got a diphteria infection and I was lucky! The French forces occupying my hometown also had taken over the town hospital and they had shots for diphteria available so I was saved.
Had the war dragged on I’d surely have died because the Nazi empire had run out of all these things, food was also scarce then …
Even more OT:
One of my favourite childhood memories:
We lived not far from the hotel/restaurant that the French military occupiers used as an office and there was a playground nearby. I fell to the ground and it hurt so much that I started to weep and scream. A sark skinned soldier/officer came out of the office, saw me and gave me a banana – the first that I got in my sweet short life of around four years.
I was so surprised and happy about this that I forgot my pain …
My parents later told me that most of these soldiers were from Morocco which at that time was a French colony.
It didn’t happen around Christmas but still a happy memory which I’ll never forget!
Sorry, tetanus of course is the risk of getting infected dirt in your wounds – animal bites might rather give you rabies but I also had my shots there.
Wolf, plenty of Americans think shots are a “conspiracy” and cause diseases! It’s a growing problem.
George, this is one of the things I couldn’t believe when I read it the first time – flat earthers, vaxxers, birthers, you name them …
Now I go to the debunking site snopes.com almost every day – some times I have to laugh, some times I’m almost crying!
Wolf, America was formed by crazies and they’re still around.
Nope, never heard of it. I get all of the shots my GP (oops, “Primary Care”) recommends, but this hasn’t been mentioned. I had an eye appt. yesterday, another Tuesday, a PC appt. Thursday. Enough already with the medical stuff!
Rick, hope your second cataract surgery went well! As we grow older, medical stuff seems to dominate our lives.
I get a distemper shot and the hell with the rest of them!
Bob, maybe you should switch to a temper shot!