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As I understand it (pre-kid vaccine for chickenpox), it was assumed that your kid would get it at some point, with the preference being the younger the better.The whole disease is just super wild.....I never knew it possessed so much magic until I first heard about shingles. Flash back to like 1989, friend's mom came and talked with my mom and said her kids had just caught chickenpox and did I want to come over to get it, since it was summer? I was like "hell no" and then I caught it that fall, fortunately after school was in session so I got a week off
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I got shingles in my mid 20's prior to meeting my wife. When we moved in together she found the Valtrex bottle with a couple of leftover pills in the shoe box full of old medications. That surely was an interesting conversation as I could see on her face that she immediately questioned her life decisions. It was the definitive "You see what had happened was" type conversation. That was almost 20 years ago and now we sometimes joke about that moment in time.
Well, that conversation would certainly be easier to logically walk your way through than trying to explain to your girl why she needs to get a penicillin shot bc you had a "kidney infection".😁
My wife at the time always told me to never come home from deployment with anything she couldn't cook or play with!
My situation may be different, as my Shingrix was NOT covered by Medicare. Accordingly, I assumed (there's that damn word again! that TRICARE for Life would not cover it. AFTER paying $225 cash on the barrelhead for the first of two Shingrix immunizations, I contacted TRICARE for Life and was told that, no Medicare doesn't cover it but TFL will do so with a $150 copay. The rep that I spoke to did not seem too knowledgeable on the subject so I'll be prepared for anything in a couple of months when I get dose number two.
Speaking of colonoscopies, do it...but fuck... the shit you have to drink 24hrs prior is gross, but worth it. Also, get a shingles vaccine as soon as you're eligible, bc I got it on my face/scalp and it's not fun.
Ive been doing the Cola - Guard route and my PCP is convinced its the better option. Additionally, once you hit 60, my PCP directs an elective CT Angiogram with AI . Not covered yet by most insurers, but self pay at around ~$300 cash. Gold standard in preventive screening for heart disease.
