yes!

no shoeboxes for me!
that's good to know. I wondered because I can remember being given little cards listing the shots I'd been administered at various points. It kind-of makes me feel old to think about it in terms of us being the few years that dealt with the transition from paper to computer records. haha!

If you have a record of getting that particular shot, then the immunization people have it on file. When I went to get my shot book updated, they printed it all off of a computer and gave me my adult immunization card filled out for my records.

this is all so clinical, but I was wondering, does the Alberta government actually have a record of all our immunizations, or am I going to have to sift through my mother's shoeboxes full of records to find all my information?



p.s. I still don't remember the HepB vaccination. I remember getting the Menningitis vaccination though...

p.p.s. and apparently I HAD the measels when I was little, so it makes me wonder about the efficacy of the shot I was given... but I want to check into that too.

next time I see either of you I owe you a beer!

"Is there any way you can somehow work in a verse about... McGriddles?":

Do I have to pay either of you for this medical advice?

Yes.

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Thanks for clearing things up! Do I have to pay either of you for this medical advice?

Actually, yeah, you're right, it was high school. I was mistaken. I was just looking at my immunization record, and I got Hep B Vaccination in 1999. For some reason I thought it was something I got right before med school, but I guess not. It's a three-part vaccination (boosters at 1 and 6 months after the initial shot) and they like to test serology to confirm, but don't require that anymore.

There is no Hep C vaccine. I'd like to make that very clear.

Hep A is the food-borne one, for which you can get vaccinated.

Hep B is sexually transmitted as well as being transmissible by blood (it's the most potent blood-transmissible virus, I believe, of HBV, HCV and HIV).

Hep C is sexually transmitted and blood-borne, was the virus that was at the center of the Red Cross tainted-blood scandal, and we cannot vaccinate for it.

The hep B vaccine is the 3 shots we got in high school/junior high. They implemented it for all grade 5's after my year (last of the bunch to get it later than grade 5). I would know because I have to update my shots every year. They even tested my antibodies to see if I have enough. Hep C isn't immunized/treated for unless you get it. Same as hep A. And actually Al, it wasn't a vaccine per say. If we got into contact with hep A again, we would have to get the shot again...I think. Not sure...