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@jeanne5009

Got my Flu shot last week

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My husband and I got ours this morning 😊
There have already been 2 reported cases of flu up the road in Lexington KY.

@jeanne5009 It just occurred to me, since you are waiting for a transplant you might want to look into getting any immunizations that you can get now that are not allowed after transplant. Some of them have some live viruses in them and I have been informed that I can’t have them now due to being on immunosuppressants.

I know one of them is the shingles vaccine, both the old one and the new one, but I think that @rosemarya said that Mayo OK’d that. MGH has not yet. There are some others but I forget which ones, possibly the pneumonia one? The flu shot is definitely OK though. I hope that MGH will eventually, with more research, decide that the shingles one is OK.
JK