@rosemarya I was surprised at church at how many people did put out their hands to shake. There are churches that have come out and said not to shake hands, and that are only giving communion to a person's hand. It's a terrible flu season. they have also said to please stay home if you are not feeling well at all.

I know I plan to be wearing a mask in the airport and on the plane when we go to CA the first weekend in February (to watch the Superbowl with our son, regardless of which teams are playing, but of course we are hoping it will be the Patriots. My husband and son have had this tradition for years, this will be my first time that I will be joining them.). I actually got my husband to get a flu shot on Friday too, he never does. I read that in CA some hospitals have had to turn down patients because they are over filled!
JK

@rosemarya that was a very inspirational story.i didn't know you have to always be conscious of that after a transplant but it was sure a blessing he understood and he told you a story of how a friend of his is still doing well after a transplant.

Great story, @rosemarya ! Teresa

@contentandwell

Sounds like you "moved the mountain" if your husband got a flu shot! Good for him and you!! I hope you have fun in CA, I see so many people in public places wearing masks these days, that it is becoming much more the norm than it used to be.

Teresa

@hopeful33250 Teresa. that's a good way of putting it. He swears he gets the flu every time he gets the shot. He told the pharmacist when he got it that it was less painful then listening to me nagging him. I have never been a nag which is one of the things he is grateful for about me but with our travel plans and knowing how bad it is in CA (everywhere really I guess) I thought it was important. He is 82 and although very healthy and is in virtually every way much younger than his chronological years, he is still 82.
JK

@contentandwell Sometimes when you are really healthy, it is hard to see yourself succumbing to something like the flu.

Teresa

@hopeful33250 this is true, and my husband is amazingly healthy. He does have a basal cell carcinoma on his nose right now that has to be tended to and he did have prostrate cancer but he is not on any medications at all. When he went to a new doctor last year and I accompanied him, the doctor practically fell off his seat! I make up for his lack of pills with all the ones I take. His parents lived pretty old, his mother in her 90s, and my parents both passed away in their 60s so I tell him I married him for his longevity genes, so they could be passed on to our children.
JK

@contentandwell That was a good plan to marry him for his longevity genes!

Teresa

@hopeful33250 I agree, it was a good plan. 😉 I have, as I have mentioned, outlived the age at which my parents and most of my aunts and uncles passed away at. I think much of that is because we are so much more aware now of taking better care of ourselves. My sister and I have commented on how our mother and aunts would never be out doing pool exercises, or exercising at a gym, or even taking frequent long walks like my sister does. If they had they probably would have lived longer.
JK

@contentandwell Yes, that generation did not understand the value of physical activity and they paid a big price for it.
I'm glad to be part of a more enlightened generation - if I were not, I'd probably not have lived as long (or as well).

Teresa