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Old 10-28-2009
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So is it that case for all schools? If so, I don't know where to take my toddler My daughter is school aged, so she's good, but I don't know about the rest of us. Where else do they do them?
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Old 10-28-2009
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So is it that case for all schools? If so, I don't know where to take my toddler My daughter is school aged, so she's good, but I don't know about the rest of us. Where else do they do them?
well - you should be able to take the toddler to any 6mo-5yr clinic - BUT - that's assuming the vaccines aren't all used up by people going to the school age clinics that aren't suppose to be there. There's also 3 priority group clinics on Sunday from 8-9.

Don't forget - this is only week one. Many, many more weeks of vaccines out there.

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Nope, but perhaps you could post the news link.
i have not seen it on the news or anything it happened yesterday in moncton to my neice.and one other child. so my kids are not getting the shot.
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So two kids in Moncton became paralized yesterday after having the shot?

Oh this just pisses me off, no wonder no one can make up their friggen minds about this crap!! Now Im worried again about my decision!!! UGH!

Well anyways....

I made the decision yesterday after riding the fence as long as I could and leaning more towards a No to the vaccine decision, to take the chance with the shot for my daughter. She gets it friday morning at school. My elderly granny we live with has to have one, doctors orders, (she has a very weak immune system from underlying medical conditions), which means I am going to have to get one as well.

I do not want to stand in line ups only to be turned away because they ran out or to keep getting pushed to the back of the line because I am not priority, so I would rather just go to my doctor and have her do it.

Are we aloud to go to our doctors office's to get em done or does it have to be clinics and schools?
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i have not seen it on the news or anything it happened yesterday in moncton to my neice.and one other child. so my kids are not getting the shot.
I heard the same thing about 4 kids in Hampton....not sure if it is true.
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Are we aloud to go to our doctors office's to get em done or does it have to be clinics and schools?
I read somewhere that 10 or so doctor's are doing H1N1 vaccinations at their offices. They didn't mention who and said you had to call your doc to find out if they were one of them. If not, you'll have to go to one of these clinics like everyone else.
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Old 10-28-2009
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What a fiasco the clinic was at Fairvale tonight!!!!!! They advertise on the Provincial Website that the clinic was for 6 months to 5 years from 4 - 9 PM.

What Government genius decided these hours are good to vaccinate children of this age????

We arrived at the school at 3:45 PM (I figured oh about an hour or so and we'd be done). The line up when we got there was down the main corridor, and along the halls surrounding three sides of the library. By the time we got to the far end of the main corridor the line had circled around the halls twice around the library (a very large room in the center of the school surrounded by hallways on all four sides for those of you who aren't familliar with the school). The Principle and the VP were scouring the lineup for students of the school and their families and moving them to the front of the line (apparently they ran out of vaccines earlier in the day and the P and VP were giving students who didn't get it earlier top priority.

This made for a very tired, hungry and angry crowd!! After 3.5 hours When we get up near the office with an autistic 4 year old and a 9 month old who haven't had supper, I read a notice saying that the clinic is for 6 month - 5 year old children of families of STUDENTS of the school. (HMMMM that's not what the Provincial Website said.

Slowly moving another few feet, I get to read the Fire Permit inside the glass case of the alarm system that their Fire Permit actually expired in August!!! Here's hundreds of people jammed into the hallways of a school without a valid Fire Permit!!!!

Finally at 8 PM we get the vaccine (in the gymnasium) and now we have to wait another 15 minutes to ensure a reaction doesn't occur. Some children had found a rack of basketballs and were passing the time having some fun, when the Principle comes over and makes them put them away!!! Like come on, you have a few 4-5 year olds who just spent 4 hours standing in a lineup and finally get the chance to have a little fun and you take it away????!!!! They weren't even making a lot of racket, they were in one far corner of the gym not bothering anyone. At that point I was so p'd off, we packed up and left, to heck with the 15 minute wait.....I took my chances taking the vaccine in the first place....I'll take my chances of a reaction too!!!

When we left the building 4.5 hours after we entered, the lineup was still longer than when we had first arrived and this was 8:15 PM!!!!

If the Government Officials were smart (but of course they're not!!!) they would have set up clinics the way they set up an election. Pick many locations, take a whole day (or more if necessary), mail every household out a card telling them where their clinic would be and have the public go to their clinic location only. Instead they set up a circus!!!

One hint for anyone attending a clinic coming up.....Pack a lunch, or have one person wait in line and call someone to bring the kids all fed and ready for bed when you get close to the end of the line.

Yea, I'm so looking forward to doing this all over again in 21 days for boosters for the children!!!!
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Old 10-29-2009
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I couldnt miss work yesterday to get my vaccine does anyone know where my husband and i can go to get ours?
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What a fiasco the clinic was at Fairvale tonight!!!!!! They advertise on the Provincial Website that the clinic was for 6 months to 5 years from 4 - 9 PM.

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Wow, that does sound like a fiasco

For the line-up thing, it reminds me of the Seinfeld episode where they were at the bakery and had to take a number (they wanted a chocolate babka, but settled for a cinnamon babka ). That would be a better way to do it, so people can at least go home for a while... if it takes 3 hours in line, you could come, take a ticket, and come back in say 2 hours. Or maybe do it using one of those hard-to-remove bracelets, so that people don't just come and take a ton of tickets for their friends.

About the basketball thing though, I haven't been in Fairvale Elem for a long time, but I think it's not a very big gym? One issue might be the risk that a ball would get away from a kid, which wouldn't be good when needles are being inserted nearby. Or maybe just that nurses/staff/etc. have been there so long, and bouncing balls would suck for a headache... or for the people who have bad reactions to the needle.

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I couldnt miss work yesterday to get my vaccine does anyone know where my husband and i can go to get ours?
A couple of people posted the government site:
www.gnb.ca/flu

This has links to the list of locations:
http://www.gnb.ca/0053/h1n1/audience_vaccine-e.asp

But if you're not in a high-risk group and don't have kids, I think they recommend waiting.
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I read somewhere that 10 or so doctor's are doing H1N1 vaccinations at their offices. They didn't mention who and said you had to call your doc to find out if they were one of them. If not, you'll have to go to one of these clinics like everyone else.
Thanks macmike, I called today and my doc is doing them at her office, but it's being held as clinic on certain dates. We have an appointment time, but we still could be waiting a lil while. Can't imagine too long, because she only has it slated until 12 noon, and she probably has other responsibilities to resume in the afternoon. My grandmother and I got in for the 4th, next week. It was that or Dec 1st!
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I heard the same thing about 4 kids in Hampton....not sure if it is true.
Someone said some girl on facebook was saying all that, that they were rushed to the hospital from the school.

What seems odd to me though, is if this was REALLY happening and kids were being paralyzed, don't you think it would have been on teh news by now? I've heard nothing nor has anyone else I know, except by rumor.

I was talking to a friend of mine who works for Global and he said the same thing. The news would have reported that if children were becoming paralyzed. You heard about the cheer leader quick enough, so you would hear about the paralyzed Moncton students and Hamptons students also.

They are quick to tell you everything else so why not that! I would like some proof before I believe any of that.
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i have not seen it on the news or anything it happened yesterday in moncton to my neice.and one other child. so my kids are not getting the shot.

it happened to your niece and you title it with a ... wow. I'm so sick of this crap, is it true or not? I just wish people would be honest, that no one could lie for a day, this is hard enough.
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We received this the other day.

Public Health will hold an immunization clinic at Prince Charles School on November 4,2009.
K-2 will be immunized from 12:45 - 1:15
1&2 will be immunized from 1:15 - 1:45

Parents of students in k-2 are invited to attend the clinic with their child. The parent and any younger siblings of k-2 students will be offered the immunization at that time also.

There will also be a clinic at St. John the Baptist School on Sunday, November 1,2009 from 8am - 9pm
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Man, everyone forget about what happens when you get a vaccination? They stick a needle in your arm and inject a substance. Temporary burning, temporary pain, even some temporary numbness is common. Vaccine a few thousand people and you start seeing some of that. If kids were experiencing something out of the ordinary the press would pick it up.

Fairville was a zoo last night, we slogged through it just to get it done with. If you have the opportunity to attend with your child at the time during the day they do his/her class, I'd strongly recommend that.

With the basketballs, between the amount of space used by the clinic (which was in the gym), the seating area for people afterwards (in the gym), a laptop with a projector set up so the kids would have a movie to watch in recovery, there just wasn't enough space. Pounding basketballs and kids running around on top of screaming toddlers would have been a little much IMO. And I wouldn't doubt that the school would have liability issues if non-school kids got hurt playing basketball in the middle of a vaccination clinic.
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We received this the other day.

Public Health will hold an immunization clinic at Prince Charles School on November 4,2009.
K-2 will be immunized from 12:45 - 1:15
1&2 will be immunized from 1:15 - 1:45

Parents of students in k-2 are invited to attend the clinic with their child. The parent and any younger siblings of k-2 students will be offered the immunization at that time also.

There will also be a clinic at St. John the Baptist School on Sunday, November 1,2009 from 8am - 9pm
I received the same thing the other day for my daughters school, but as of today, 1 parent may attend with the child, and that is it. No siblings, (unless they attend the school) and what about the other parent??
So you might want to double check with the school.
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is that just at the Prince Charles school that they will do one parent and child, or is St. John the Baptist School's clinic the same way?
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it happened to your niece and you title it with a ... wow. I'm so sick of this crap, is it true or not? I just wish people would be honest, that no one could lie for a day, this is hard enough.
I know eh!! That 's what I'm saying too!!
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I know eh!! That 's what I'm saying too!!
Pumpkin it's SO frustrating, I have a guy friend who's like, eh whatever it's no big deal ... but when you have to make what could literally be a life or apparent death decision for the two most helpless people you love the most in the world, it kind of is !
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Old 10-30-2009
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I would think that the Saint John the Baptist School is an "open" clinic? Not sure it didn't say anything different.
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