Pluggers by Rick McKee for February 23, 2022

Get your Shingles vaccine!

I already had chicken pox (I was probably 4-yo).

Remember Lawrence Lamb’s column “To Help You Live Better”?

Well, after all, you is a chicken.

My small pox vaccination gave me a huge bicep.

Well, I never had chickenpox as far as I know, but when I once made a fierce joke about Mike Tyson that was such an assault to his ears, that he gave me an invitation to meet him personally in the ring I had a severe case of being a “box chicken”, tell ya!

Never had it.

“You know we have more prescription drugs now. Every commercial that comes on TV is a prescription drug ad. I can’t watch TV for four minutes without thinking I have five serious diseases! Like: "Do you ever wake up tired in the mornings?

“Oh my god, I have this! Write this down. Whatever it is, I have it”

Half the time I don’t even know what the commercial is – there’s people running in fields or flying kites or swimming in the ocean. Like, “That is the greatest disease ever. How do you get that? That disease comes with a hot chick and a puppy.”

Well, she IS a chicken, so…

At least you don’t have cowpox.

Got to be an article on Shingles and/or is pushing Shingrix.

I never had chicken pox!

My dad had shingles as part of his general physical shut down before he died. It basically consists of fever blisters, the kind in your mouth or on your lips. But, it covers large parts of your body, and hurts just as much as when it’s just one. In his case, it was pretty much the whole left side of his head and body down to the armpit area. He went through WWII, Vietnam, cancer and a bad car wreck without complaining. But, shingles had him crying and screaming. Yeah, I’d say get your shot.

There was a Pluggers comic published somewhere before 2014 but likely after 2000 which mentioned medicines. That comic had the exact 3 meds I was taking at the time.