Been There, Done That: Tempting fate without the flu shot

As a general rule, I don’t get sick. I have allergies and asthma, but do OK on over the counter medications. I think being on those continuously keeps me from catching every little bug that comes down the pike. I have a friend who religiously got her flu shot every year. And every year, she got the flu. The year they offered the pneumonia shot, guess what she got — the shot and pneumonia. Every year, she’d ask if I got my flu shot and then answer herself with “Oh yeah, you don’t get the shot, you just get sick.”

Hardly. I can literally count on one hand the number of times an illness has taken me out of commission — sidelined me from my life.