I have half-completed my quest to be stuck with at least two more needles. As both a preggo and an asthmatic, I’m meet two qualifications for being high risk and for requiring the shot, rather than the nasal spray. But finding the vaccine has been a bit of a pain in the butt. I see a midwife at a birth center, so they don’t have the vaccine, so they refer me to my GP. My GP doesn’t have any of either type and isn’t expecting to get any in, so they refer me to the local health department. The local health department has suspended all public health clinic vaccinations due to lack of vaccine, so they refer me to my GP or OB. The OB group that is handling my ultrasounds hasn’t been able to get any for the workers and doubts that they’ll be able to get any in for patients, so they refer me to my GP. You may see the dilemma. To make matters worse, I’d like to find the single dose, since I’d prefer fewer preservatives.

Fortunately, Jason was able to able to find a local grocery pharmacy that had the seasonal flu vaccine in single dose. So that’s been accomplished. They don’t know that they’re going to get any H1N1 vaccine, however. The nurse at the maternal fetal medicine who returned my results suggested that Snohomish County might be running clinics this weekend. So I plan to trek about a 45-min drive north to Snohomish County to get the H1N1 vaccine there.

And yeah, those results were all good. Blood tests combined with the ultrasound puts me at very low risk for any detectable chromosomal abnormalities (1 in 11,000 for Downs and 1 in 22,000 for the other trisomies). Whoohoo!