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cdoconn said:
They don't bother me when I'm the one *giving* the vaccines. It'll be okay- I'm just worried about any side effects.
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I'm sure you'll be fine 😀
I can't remember what vaccines I was getting but one time I got 4 in one day. My arms were so sore...
 
WildZoo said:
I'm sure you'll be fine 😀
I can't remember what vaccines I was getting but one time I got 4 in one day. My arms were so sore...
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Oh no! That's terrible!!! I'm slightly worried about arm sore/ numbness. But it'll be worth it. At least I have a recent tetanus vaccination and don't have to get that one done! 🙂
 
cdoconn said:
Oh no! That's terrible!!! I'm slightly worried about arm sore/ numbness. But it'll be worth it. At least I have a recent tetanus vaccination and don't have to get that one done! 🙂
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I think it was when i went to get my first rabies, and the same day i got the first HPV one (never finished that series, whoops) and got updated on another two. Ugh.

I probably need to get my tetanus updated...
 
WildZoo said:
I think it was when i went to get my first rabies, and the same day i got the first HPV one (never finished that series, whoops) and got updated on another two. Ugh.

I probably need to get my tetanus updated...
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Yeahhhh I'm waiting on rabies. Oh well. Going to wait until I actually need to get one. Save me some monaaaayyyy
 
cdoconn said:
Yeahhhh I'm waiting on rabies. Oh well. Going to wait until I actually need to get one. Save me some monaaaayyyy
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Get it while you can if your insurance will cover it. I had to fork out $750 for my series
 
cdoconn said:
Yeahhhh I'm waiting on rabies. Oh well. Going to wait until I actually need to get one. Save me some monaaaayyyy
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You'll prob have to get it before next fall. Most vet schools require you to get the whole series (three shots) sometime during/before first year. It was $300 per shot for me through the school clinic, but my insurance covered $800 of it thank goodness.
 
I feel very sad for my parents' neighbor. She lost her husband to pancreatic cancer earlier this year. She recently hurt her back and can't fly out to see her son and grandkids for the holidays. Now her older lab mix is likely going to be put down. The dog was always a little neurotic and snapped at strangers, but apparently it became really aggressive with my neighbor a couple of nights ago. It bit her and she had to wrestle it to its kennel to stop it from attacking her. She couldn't even near the kennel without it going berzerk so she had to call animal control to remove it. Now the dog is under observation at the shelter.
 
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Teepster87 said:
Get it while you can if your insurance will cover it. I had to fork out $750 for my series
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Yeah I'm not sure if my insurance will cover them yet. We're having to switch insurance policies, again (fourth time in 3 years, the companies keep dropping private insurance plans), so I have to wait and see.

alohacat319 said:
You'll prob have to get it before next fall. Most vet schools require you to get the whole series (three shots) sometime during/before first year. It was $300 per shot for me through the school clinic, but my insurance covered $800 of it thank goodness.
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Yeah, it only lasts 4 years, right? I wouldn't want to have to go through all of that if I'm solely going to be working in the lab for the next year because I didn't get in. But as soon as I have confirmation, I'll get started with the not-as-fun-as-alcohol kind of shots.
 
cdoconn said:
Yeah I'm not sure if my insurance will cover them yet. We're having to switch insurance policies, again (fourth time in 3 years, the companies keep dropping private insurance plans), so I have to wait and see.

Yeah, it only lasts 4 years, right? I wouldn't want to have to go through all of that if I'm solely going to be working in the lab for the next year because I didn't get in. But as soon as I have confirmation, I'll get started with the not-as-fun-as-alcohol kind of shots.
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No one knows how long the rabies vaccine lasts in humans. I got post exposure shots around 10 years ago and had my titers checked before school started and they were still quite high. I've heard of other people who had low titers after only 2-3 years.
 
You know you're in Iowa during the winter when you wake up, are choosing what to wear, check the weather and see that it's 18 degrees, and proclaim... "Wow, it's actually fairly warm today!".

For context, the last week-ish has trended anywhere in the range of -5 to 8 with windchill when I get up to leave, so it was nice to see the double digits today.
 
SandstormDVM said:
You know you're in Iowa during the winter when you wake up, are choosing what to wear, check the weather and see that it's 18 degrees, and proclaim... "Wow, it's actually fairly warm today!".

For context, the last week-ish has trended anywhere in the range of -5 to 8 with windchill when I get up to leave, so it was nice to see the double digits today.
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Ha! That was like here when Saturday it was 35 for a bit and the whole week before it had been in the teens or lower from windchill. 35 felt so warm hahaha
 
Jilary said:
No one knows how long the rabies vaccine lasts in humans. I got post exposure shots around 10 years ago and had my titers checked before school started and they were still quite high. I've heard of other people who had low titers after only 2-3 years.
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I made it almost 6 years before needing a booster.
Got boostered, few weeks later stuck my finger in the mouth of a rabid cat and promptly had to get more boosters. Yay rabies.
 
Jilary said:
No one knows how long the rabies vaccine lasts in humans. I got post exposure shots around 10 years ago and had my titers checked before school started and they were still quite high. I've heard of other people who had low titers after only 2-3 years.
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Yeah it seems to be pretty variable based on individual. Here you have to get it during first semester and then get your titers checked 3rd year, we've been told there are a few people in every class who don't seroconvert. Meanwhile I know a few vets who have been good for 10+ years.
cowgirla said:
I made it almost 6 years before needing a booster.
Got boostered, few weeks later stuck my finger in the mouth of a rabid cat and promptly had to get more boosters. Yay rabies.
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Ouch 🙁
 
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Though I shouldn't poke fun. I'm Florida born and raised. 😀
 
I don't want like, ten feet of snow, but two feet - enough to close some things down while our piddly road crews try to clear it away, but not enough to cause power outages and stuff... just enough to have a couple of snowy, quiet days at home and see how the dogs feel about it, and maybe toss the cat into it once (Rig has yet to see snow)...

I'd want to build a snowman, but I don't know if I even have any waterproof gloves. I definitely don't have any good pants, so I'd just be wearing some jeans with fleece lines leggings underneath or something like that. Oh, and rain boots.
 
twelvetigers said:
I don't want like, ten feet of snow, but two feet - enough to close some things down while our piddly road crews try to clear it away, but not enough to cause power outages and stuff... just enough to have a couple of snowy, quiet days at home and see how the dogs feel about it, and maybe toss the cat into it once (Rig has yet to see snow)...

I'd want to build a snowman, but I don't know if I even have any waterproof gloves. I definitely don't have any good pants, so I'd just be wearing some jeans with fleece lines leggings underneath or something like that. Oh, and rain boots.
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Yesss this is exactly what I want. When there's a bad snowstorm or the temperature gets really, really low (like -20 or below) I don't have to go to work, I still get paid, and I usually have very little work to make up. I could really use a few days of snowmen and hot cocoa at home. I'm not actually wishing for that weather but if it happens to come, I hope it's on a weekday!

And I love snow, in moderation. In winter, it's usually warmer here when it's snowing than when it's not, and it is so pretty and festive.
 
TrashPanda said:
Yesss this is exactly what I want. When there's a bad snowstorm or the temperature gets really, really low (like -20 or below) I don't have to go to work, I still get paid, and I usually have very little work to make up. I could really use a few days of snowmen and hot cocoa at home. I'm not actually wishing for that weather but if it happens to come, I hope it's on a weekday!

And I love snow, in moderation. In winter, it's usually warmer here when it's snowing than when it's not, and it is so pretty and festive.
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Yeah, I'd still have to go to work. Weather is just a nuisance that you figure out how to ignore here.

When I was a kid, there was a storm that dropped 4-6' overnight. We called in to school and my mother called in to work and I sat on the porch and watched people shovel out to their cars from my porch. It took a few hours for people to realize the plows weren't coming.

The city announced that they could not plow until they could see at least the tops of cars. They gave people a 48 hour window to get their vehicles off the road and then they were coming through. Lots of vehicles were damaged because people couldn't get their cars moved.
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
Yeah, I'd still have to go to work. Weather is just a nuisance that you figure out how to ignore here.

When I was a kid, there was a storm that dropped 4-6' overnight. We called in to school and my mother called in to work and I sat on the porch and watched people shovel out to their cars from my porch. It took a few hours for people to realize the plows weren't coming.

The city announced that they could not plow until they could see at least the tops of cars. They gave people a 48 hour window to get their vehicles off the road and then they were coming through. Lots of vehicles were damaged because people couldn't get their cars moved.
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If something of this magnitude happened in Oklahoma, it would be national disaster type stuff.
 
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LadyOtheFarm said:
Yeah, I'd still have to go to work. Weather is just a nuisance that you figure out how to ignore here.

When I was a kid, there was a storm that dropped 4-6' overnight. We called in to school and my mother called in to work and I sat on the porch and watched people shovel out to their cars from my porch. It took a few hours for people to realize the plows weren't coming.

The city announced that they could not plow until they could see at least the tops of cars. They gave people a 48 hour window to get their vehicles off the road and then they were coming through. Lots of vehicles were damaged because people couldn't get their cars moved.
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How are you supposed to move your car when there is no road?!
 
Yeah...if there's a winter-weather exchange program, sign me up too, please :help: Even for down here, the temps this month have been BS. I wanna smack the local weathermen every time they refer to temps rising from the 60s to the 80s as "good news"
 
SandstormDVM said:
You know you're in Iowa during the winter when you wake up, are choosing what to wear, check the weather and see that it's 18 degrees, and proclaim... "Wow, it's actually fairly warm today!".

For context, the last week-ish has trended anywhere in the range of -5 to 8 with windchill when I get up to leave, so it was nice to see the double digits today.
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This makes sense to read in Celcius. Read it in Farenheight and you are completely crazy.

That is too cold :uhno:
 
When I was in undergrad here we had 2 weeks of -40 F with high winds and blowing snow. Some professors cancelled classes, but not all.

Then one day it was warm! We all dressed in tank tops and sun dresses and shorts and hung out on the lawns and went for a drive to go out for lunch in the beautiful spring weather.

Then we saw a bank sign. It was 30 degrees out. We all started giggling because it was still below freezing and we were all running around half naked. The 70 degree temperature swing had messed up our internal thermostats.
 
BeautifulBritishColumbia said:
This makes sense to read in Celcius. Read it in Farenheight and you are completely crazy.

That is too cold :uhno:
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What's it like in the winter near you? I know nothing about Canada and imagine it's like the US but with nicer people, free healthcare, and colder weather.
 
TrashPanda said:
What's it like in the winter near you? I know nothing about Canada and imagine it's like the US but with nicer people, free healthcare, and colder weather.
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Completely depends on where you are. Coast is much milder than the interior continental area, and the North is cold (I've never gone there, so no personal anecdote). Then Newfoundland is just Newfoundland. 😛

In my area we rarely get below freezing (probably 5-10 days a year if that). Which means the last two weeks have been unpleasant. However, the dampness in the air from the ocean and the wind makes -5C here (in my opinion) feel worse than -30C in the interior. The cold just cuts through anything you have on, no matter how thick of a coat you wear. Regardless, any time it hits freezing I get grumpy and pull out all the sweaters I own.
 
twelvetigers said:
If something of this magnitude happened in Oklahoma, it would be national disaster type stuff.
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Were you here a few years back (I'm old, so "a few" might be 2008 or 2009) when we had crazy cold weather followed by crazy warm weather, and somewhere up near Bartlesville had a 100 degree temperature swing in 24 hours?
 
LadyOtheFarm said:
When I was in undergrad here we had 2 weeks of -40 F with high winds and blowing snow. Some professors cancelled classes, but not all.

Then one day it was warm! We all dressed in tank tops and sun dresses and shorts and hung out on the lawns and went for a drive to go out for lunch in the beautiful spring weather.

Then we saw a bank sign. It was 30 degrees out. We all started giggling because it was still below freezing and we were all running around half naked. The 70 degree temperature swing had messed up our internal thermostats.
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That is craziness. Not much else can be said 😛
 
WildZoo said:
do needles bother you?
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UPDATE: needles don't necessarily bother me, but they aren't fun. I ended up only needing Hep A, because they're doing the oral vaccination for Typhoid because it lasts 5 years instead of the injection's 2 years. But still. I had to bite the bullet on that
 
cdoconn said:
UPDATE: needles don't necessarily bother me, but they aren't fun. I ended up only needing Hep A, because they're doing the oral vaccination for Typhoid because it lasts 5 years instead of the injection's 2 years. But still. I had to bite the bullet on that
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That's super cool! haven't heard of oral vaccines for people before.
 
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allyphoe said:
Were you here a few years back (I'm old, so "a few" might be 2008 or 2009) when we had crazy cold weather followed by crazy warm weather, and somewhere up near Bartlesville had a 100 degree temperature swing in 24 hours?
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I've been 'here' for about 31 years now, though the first five are pretty fuzzy.

I remember some more significant snows here and there but nothing too recent, especially nothing that stayed for long. The temperature thing rings a bell. Also stuff about it being colder here than in Alaska, at least for a little bit.
 
TrashPanda said:
A few years ago my parents got me a heated mattress pad that I'd asked for. Best. Present. Ever. It's like sleeping inside a toasted marshmallow
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OKAY SO I got to sleep on a heated mattress pad last night (and tonight) at my grandparents house and OMG IT IS LIKE A TOASTED MARSHMALLOW. I need one of these.
 
SkiOtter said:
OKAY SO I got to sleep on a heated mattress pad last night (and tonight) at my grandparents house and OMG IT IS LIKE A TOASTED MARSHMALLOW. I need one of these.
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You guys are so not making it easy to resist my spoiled child's insistence that she needs a heated mattress pad.
 
SkiOtter said:
Orrrrrr buy one for yourself so you can live in a toasted marshmallow 😉
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Yeah, the ability to heat only one side (mine!) is a real selling point, too. On the other hand, getting your kid's desired present for yourself is kind of a jerk move.
 
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