Flu shot, and 30 Days of Star Trek
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rivendellroseGot my flu shot yesterday while my stepmom was watching baby L, and had a bit of frustration because when they gave me the paperwork for the shot while I waited, I noticed that there was a note saying to ask you're doctor about safety with the shot if you're breastfeeding. So I asked the girl who came to give me the shot what that was about. Poor thing was an intern, so she looked at the sheet, then took my info (age of baby, etc.) and went back to check, and the main pharmacist was busy, so she checked the manufacturer's info on the computer, etc. Nothing listed specifically. We agreed that it should be fine (after all, his pediatrician was the one who reminded us to get our shots, and she knows he's still getting about half breastmilk and half formula), and I resolved to look into it at home, and dump my breastmilk for a while if needed.
The CDC website is marvelously clear about breastfeeding and flu shots: "Flu vaccination is safe for breastfeeding women and their infants aged 6 months and older. In fact, women who get the flu vaccine while pregnant or breastfeeding develop antibodies against flu that they can share with their infants through their breast milk. Breastfeeding can provide some protection against flu for infants, including children younger than 6 months who cannot receive the flu vaccine."
So, yay. Just like the refusal to give me the flu shot when I was trying to get pregnant (ie, for four freaking flu seasons in a damned row) unless I lied and said I wasn't (which I did, four years in a row, because getting the flu while pregnant is super dangerous and bad, and each of those times I was just trying, not actively pregnant (in which case I would've gotten my shot from my doctor, just to be sure it was safe)), this is a case of the companies being overly paranoid about their documentation, presumably to avoid lawsuits, in this case presumably banking on the idea that nobody actually reads that paperwork that you get with a shot. Nobody except me. Sigh. Anyway, I have my damned shot, and I'm quite happy about that.
Oh, and then my stepmom accidentally suggested that the baby's tummy troubles might be because he's not 100% breast-fed. In an otherwise lovely visit, it was kind of a facepalm moment. Whatever.
(Baby hit the toy bar that hangs over his bassinet while I was writing this, causing it to sing. ...We might need to remove that bar at night, now that he's getting bigger, and replace it with something entertaining but quiet so he doesn't wake himself up all the time by happening to flail against it.)
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
That's an easy one -- Kira. Grumpiest and most unwilling first officer, in the beginning, and the way she grows and comes to deeply care for the Starfleet staff over the next seven years is so marvelous. I love how she does things her own way and is always a little rough around the edges, and, let's be real, I flat out adore her smile. Nana Visitor has a smile that lights up the whole room around her, and I never get tired of it. ♥
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
I'm not actually sure I have one of these. There was a time, long ago, when it was (don't tease) "Resolutions." Yes, I was what we called back in the day a J/C shipper. Somewhere, on some archive that is hopefully long gone and was never backed up anywhere else, there was once a piece of fanfic that I wrote about Janeway and Chakotay when I was fourteen. Happily, I was using a totally different username and email address back then, so no one will ever be able to trace it back to me, because... nobody's fic at fourteen should be connected to their online life as an adult.
(This was not the first fanfic I ever wrote. That distinction goes to the long-forgotten Roddenberry property Earth: Final Conflict, and is likewise lost to the sands of internet and time, thank heaven, although the theme of me falling for the alien continues down through the years.)
As an adult? I have a vague recollection that I liked the episode with Paris's black and white Captain Proton holonovel. All the actors really looked like they were enjoying a break from their normal characters, if I remember right. I've never been able to make it past the first few episodes on attempts to rewatch Voyager, though, so I have no idea if this would hold true. I feel about it largely the way a lot of people feel about Enterprise, I think -- I tried it, I didn't like it, and I mostly pretend it didn't exist.
The CDC website is marvelously clear about breastfeeding and flu shots: "Flu vaccination is safe for breastfeeding women and their infants aged 6 months and older. In fact, women who get the flu vaccine while pregnant or breastfeeding develop antibodies against flu that they can share with their infants through their breast milk. Breastfeeding can provide some protection against flu for infants, including children younger than 6 months who cannot receive the flu vaccine."
So, yay. Just like the refusal to give me the flu shot when I was trying to get pregnant (ie, for four freaking flu seasons in a damned row) unless I lied and said I wasn't (which I did, four years in a row, because getting the flu while pregnant is super dangerous and bad, and each of those times I was just trying, not actively pregnant (in which case I would've gotten my shot from my doctor, just to be sure it was safe)), this is a case of the companies being overly paranoid about their documentation, presumably to avoid lawsuits, in this case presumably banking on the idea that nobody actually reads that paperwork that you get with a shot. Nobody except me. Sigh. Anyway, I have my damned shot, and I'm quite happy about that.
Oh, and then my stepmom accidentally suggested that the baby's tummy troubles might be because he's not 100% breast-fed. In an otherwise lovely visit, it was kind of a facepalm moment. Whatever.
(Baby hit the toy bar that hangs over his bassinet while I was writing this, causing it to sing. ...We might need to remove that bar at night, now that he's getting bigger, and replace it with something entertaining but quiet so he doesn't wake himself up all the time by happening to flail against it.)
Day 15 - Favorite First Officer
That's an easy one -- Kira. Grumpiest and most unwilling first officer, in the beginning, and the way she grows and comes to deeply care for the Starfleet staff over the next seven years is so marvelous. I love how she does things her own way and is always a little rough around the edges, and, let's be real, I flat out adore her smile. Nana Visitor has a smile that lights up the whole room around her, and I never get tired of it. ♥
Day 16 - Favorite Voyager Episode
I'm not actually sure I have one of these. There was a time, long ago, when it was (don't tease) "Resolutions." Yes, I was what we called back in the day a J/C shipper. Somewhere, on some archive that is hopefully long gone and was never backed up anywhere else, there was once a piece of fanfic that I wrote about Janeway and Chakotay when I was fourteen. Happily, I was using a totally different username and email address back then, so no one will ever be able to trace it back to me, because... nobody's fic at fourteen should be connected to their online life as an adult.
(This was not the first fanfic I ever wrote. That distinction goes to the long-forgotten Roddenberry property Earth: Final Conflict, and is likewise lost to the sands of internet and time, thank heaven, although the theme of me falling for the alien continues down through the years.)
As an adult? I have a vague recollection that I liked the episode with Paris's black and white Captain Proton holonovel. All the actors really looked like they were enjoying a break from their normal characters, if I remember right. I've never been able to make it past the first few episodes on attempts to rewatch Voyager, though, so I have no idea if this would hold true. I feel about it largely the way a lot of people feel about Enterprise, I think -- I tried it, I didn't like it, and I mostly pretend it didn't exist.
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Date: 2019-09-14 07:08 pm (UTC)Jen. JEN.
HOW DID I NEVER KNOW THIS?
THAT WAS MY FIRST FANFIC, TOO.
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Date: 2019-09-14 07:45 pm (UTC)(I'm sure we've talked about the show. I may never have admitted to the fanfic before, though, out of fear that it might still exist somewhere on some long-forgotten mirror site. I think I got my last comment on the fic sometime in college...)
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Date: 2019-09-14 07:49 pm (UTC)I'm pretty sure we never crossed paths in the fandom, though, if only because I didn't grok interacting with other fans until about five years later. XD
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Date: 2019-09-15 03:11 am (UTC)Heh, I hadn't really figured it out yet, either, but I did interact with a handful of folks. I had my first beta for that fic, and I really do wish I knew who that person was -- I'd thank her for giving me my first taste of editing!
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Date: 2019-09-17 08:37 am (UTC)And therefore the only things I remember were that I liked that the aliens were nonbinary, and that Von Flores was hot.
My god, Von Flores was hot.
(Was he evil? I think so? But hot.)
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Date: 2019-10-30 09:04 pm (UTC)Yeah, the series continued for quite a while, actually, with an almost entirely different cast of characters than it started with in the first season, which was... odd.
But Von Flores persisted. And, yes, Von Flores was hot. And probably evil. He had the potential to be more of a mixed, interesting character at some points in the first season, but I'm sure the later seasons fucked that up completely even though, if I recall the new lead was sekritly his son. (What a damned horrible soap opera the transition from S1 to S2 was...)
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Date: 2019-11-02 11:40 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2019-11-02 11:51 pm (UTC)