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I am jealous as my library is closed. They are doing curbside pickup but limit you to 5 books at a time vs the usual 50 and I am a super-reader. My shingles shot was covered in full since I got it during my annual physical so it was coded preventive.
Ours were covered by DW's insurance (pre-retirement).Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
We did get the earlier vaccine several years ago; that was out of our own pocket because we weren't old enough to get the shot for free (though we were old enough to get shingles, which, based on what I read and see, is not something anyone should want). As you said, stuff you pay for. If either one of us got shingles it would have been well worth what we paid for the vaccine to be cured of it.
DW and i are almost exclusively e-library users, so curbside/inside made no difference to us. I believe they're still curbside-only here, but I'm not aware of restrictions on the number of books, etc.
It’s pretty standard in libraries to require a valid library card to use digital resources. During COVID-19 lock down when the library close my card expired card. But being the good doobies that they were, the library automatically made an extension until two days after they re-opened.Quote:
Originally Posted by SteveinMN
My library was issuing digital library cards for those who didn't already have them when everything was closed.Quote:
Originally Posted by iris lilies
My Seattle Library card expired because I didn't use it, but my King County card hasn't expired since I first got it over 30 years ago.
Unfortunately I am allergic to one of the ingredients in the shingles shot. I just read that 5 states including Nevada have 20% more people without HI because they lost their jobs.
It would be the wrong shot anyway, I've been confirmed via antibody tests to have never had chicken pox (which is what I told the doc anyway, but they wanted to prove it - yes, yes, doc I had asymptomatic chicken pox … >8))
Did the doc then recommend chicken pox vaccination? I got chicken pox as an adult, a couple of years after the vaccine came out. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore
yes but as a gyno they couldn't give me one, nor a prescription for one, and so I procrastinate in a pandemic now :~)Quote:
Originally Posted by jp1
Well, on the plus side in the middle of a pandemic you're not likely to be exposed to chicken pox!Quote:
Originally Posted by ApatheticNoMore