So this piece comes from NPR.  When people tell you that the flu is nothing, Here is the perspective one person.

“I figured [the flu] was something that’s dangerous to the elderly and the young, not somebody who is healthy and in their 30s,” says Hinderliter, who is 39 and the director of government affairs at the St. Louis Realtors association.

“Turns out, I was wrong,” he says.

It only got worse from there.  His Nurse Practitioner spotted some severe changes and sent him to the Emergency room.  He had a protracted hospital stay and after

He left the hospital in March and spent three weeks rehabbing in a nursing home — the same nursing home where his grandmother was being treated for advanced dementia. It was not an experience he had expected to have.

Read the entire article at the link above, while skipping the flu shot may not cause this behavior, can you imagine 3 months in a nursing home AFTER the hospital?  Nursie likes to stay as far away from those as possible.

On a side note, the shot is not the only thing in preventing the flu.  If you are sick stay home, no seriously.  Wash your hands especially after contact with other humans or common surfaces. Cover your mouth when you cough or sneeze its just disgusting when you don’t.