{"id":73,"date":"2008-10-25T17:16:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-25T23:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=73"},"modified":"2008-10-25T17:16:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-25T23:16:16","slug":"shots-and-not-the-fun-kind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/?p=73","title":{"rendered":"Shots!  And not the fun kind&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got my very first flu shot yesterday!\u00a0 Or &#8211; maybe just the first one I&#8217;m aware of &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if I got them when I was little.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never gotten one before &#8211; I haven&#8217;t gotten the flu in years (knock wood!), and I figured that if it wasn&#8217;t broken, I didn&#8217;t need to fix it!\u00a0 But &#8211; because of the super awesome\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.humira.com\/\">Humira<\/a> injections I&#8217;ve been taking for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arthritis.org\/disease-center.php?disease_id=31\">RA<\/a>, my rheumatologist recommended that I get one this year, since\u00a0the meds\u00a0suppress my immune system.<\/p>\n<p>The Humira injections HURT!\u00a0 A lot.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m such an incredible weenie about them.\u00a0 I mean, other people get shots every day!\u00a0 Several times a day!\u00a0 I only have to do this every 2 weeks!\u00a0 I should be tougher!\u00a0 Anyway&#8230;\u00a0after a few months of these, I&#8217;ve convinced myself that all shots are going to HURT, so I was pretty scared of the flu shot.\u00a0 In comparison?\u00a0 Piece of cake!\u00a0 My arm&#8217;s a tiny bit sore, but wow &#8211; it was\u00a0SO easy!\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The bonus of me being immunosuppressed is that everyone else in my house had to get a flu shot too this year, to help protect me!\u00a0 Special, huh?\u00a0 Tina &amp; Jimmy seem to get the flu every year, so hopefully my being on crazy drugs will help them stay healthy through the winter.\u00a0 Keep your fingers crossed.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got my very first flu shot yesterday!\u00a0 Or &#8211; maybe just the first one I&#8217;m aware of &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if I got them when I was little.\u00a0 I&#8217;d never gotten one before &#8211; I haven&#8217;t gotten the flu in years (knock wood!), and I figured that if it wasn&#8217;t broken, I didn&#8217;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sydnieann.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}