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NOT THE ROOF KIND

We went and got the new shingles vaccine on Thursday. Yesterday.

It is highly recommended for people over 60 who had chicken pox as a kid.

That's me.

My mother had shingles and I do not recommend it.

It is painful as hell.

Herpes Zoster.

The shots cost 160 wholesale and 204 to get done.

It is expensive because it is new, it is from a drug company and it is a frozen live virus which is hard to handle. You have to shoot it within 30 minutes of the thaw.

It is worth it.

I am a big immunization guy.

It didn't hurt.

Not sore. Which I can't say about the flu shot I got a month ago. It was sore for a few days.

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