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Bag for Life

al_leister

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Location
northern Ireland
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Dislikes
Greedy Humans.....greedy animals I don't mind. I do like meat and fish but choose not to eat it!
I attended the docs this morning to receive the Flu Jab.
Was also offered the Pneumonia Jab; I thought for a second and then agreed to have it.

Nurse advised me the pneumonia Jab is for life; just once, never to be had again. I asked if I did contract pneumonia could I get my money back; she said, probably not.

I can’t help think about the bag for life offer in the supermarkets; they know it will eventually fall apart but simply agree to replace it for free when it does.
 
Hmm, yes nurse told me that pneumonia jab protects against most strains but if you were on a bus and next to someone with an obscure strain then you could catch it - that will probably be me!
 
Thought that with that title it was going to be a rant about marriage
(runs for cover!)
 
Catlady19 said:
Hmm, yes nurse told me that pneumonia jab protects against most strains but if you were on a bus and next to someone with an obscure strain then you could catch it - that will probably be me!
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In that case I want my money back: now!
 
I took up the offer of a pneumococcal inoculation and the nurse asked if I minded if she took a blood sample for testing purposes. I was happy to comply. And that, children, is how I ended up seeing the diabetic nurse and writing on this forum.
 
I just saw a news report where the bag for life was reported as a health problem. Apparently you put some meat with e-coli in into the bag and the next time you go shopping it infects everything else and you die. Apart from that Christmas is coming.

Christmas comes but once a year, now isn't that a good idea.

Credit to Reader's Digest.
 

Hmm, lovely! They used to provide smaller plastic bags for your meat.
 
The latest radio ads say the pneumococcal pneumonia jabs are effective for 20 years, when they caught me for mine several years ago told me it was a one off! One day they'll make up their mind, but if it reduces the risk of getting it I'd have a jab a year
 

Bothersome that E.coli.
My wife works for a fine old chain of shops that also sell groceries. She is happy to help with packing bags for the customers though sometimes the bags she is given (cloth chappies) are quite old, well used and a bit smelly. She said it’s like being handed dirty underwear.
 

I find this of some concern. Perhaps your wife should ask that the customers should pack the bags themselves to avoid liability.
 
Twenty years is about right, I think. I gather they won't do it after a certain age (not sure when), possibly because you might be keen for pneumonia to carry you off by then. (Don't mean to be offensive or disrespectful and apologies if anyone is offended, but they do call pneumonia "the old person's friend").
 
Catlady19 said:
Well, I suppose you could reserve one specific bag only for meat?
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Have I misunderstood something here. If you just keep one bag for meat and one of the leaky meat packages infects that bag with e-coli then wouldn't the next lump of meat placed into that bag be at risk?
 
I had the jag for pnumonia...got it anyway in the SUMMER of all times and spent 53 hours throwing up, was nearly admitted to hospital (only wasn't because at the time they thought it was novovirus) and it triggered an official diagnosis of asthma so...yeah. For life my left boob.
 
I had the jab a few years back and then had hospital acquired pneumonia, which sounds as if I went specially to the hospital to get it, also whilst in said hospital I was exposed to TB, one of the "care givers" had been harbouring.

Maybe meat should be carried home in a bag that can be washed. Though you are supposed to be given a bag for meat without paying
 
Well the nurse told me that I only needed to have it once, but since I've passed my allocated three score and ten perhaps she reckoned my immunity will possibly outlast me. However, my half my age, active, healthy, paleo & organic eating niece has been hospitalised twice with nasty doses of pneumonia, so I'm not inclined to consider it would ever be any friend of mine... I can think of better (and worse!) ways though to pop off when my time comes.

Robbity
 
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