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Your recount sounds similar to one that I have as well. In 1994 or so, we received our flu shot and 13 of us out of "about" 600 simply came down with whatever they injected us with. 12 were admitted to a local hospital (we were overseas and were a GSU), but I got to stay home because my wife was the Staff Nurse at the small medical aid station we had and the docs knew I would be watched closely.

I swore OFF flu shots after that and separated from active duty in 1998. They "tried" to give me one more before I left, but I simply pointed out that I would be gone in 8 months and they didn't press the issue fortunately.

I will tell you something interesting that happened while I was out processing in 1998 (USAF). I was going from place to place getting my out processing forms signed. I had to go to "aerospace medicine" for some reason. The guy behind the counter pulled some sort of records from his files (NOT the full medical records pack that we all had) and put it up on the counter. He scanned through it and said, "Hold on a minute! We don't have a blood sample for DNA! We have to take care of that!" I said, "Oh really? Let me see!" I turned the records around in my direction and he stepped into the other room to get a blood test kid and I ran out the door!...WITH my records! :-)

But back to the subject of this thread... my stepfather suffers with Gillian Barre Syndrome NOW from a flu shot he took back around 2000 or so. It's a very nasty ailment to have and in all likelihood it's going to kill him eventually. He's an Obama supporter and is having great difficulty with the concept that something done for the common good has personally FUBAR'd him so badly. I can't help him there though!

He scanned through it and said, "Hold on a minute! We don't have a blood sample for DNA! We have to take care of that!" I said, "Oh really? Let me see!" I turned the records around in my direction and he stepped into the other room to get a blood test kid and I ran out the door!...WITH my records! :-)

VERY good! Did you find anything interesting in those records you might not have been expecting to find? (just curious)