I'll share my story in hopes of keeping someone else from being as dumb as I was. My nursing school gave us a medical form on the 25th, I didn't start anything I needed to fullfil until yesterday(idiot). My MMR vaccine was given in a closed hospital-so they have no record, by a doctor who is now dead-so he has no record....I was taken there at the tender age of eleven by my grandmother-also dead now and has no record. So, onto the school system I go...surely, they have a record.....but no-not at any of my schools or at the school district. They went computerized a few years ago-so everyone that needs records from before 2006 or so is out of luck. So did the city health department. :banghead:So I call the health dept.-I was told they have the cheapest vaccines.....the receptionist was unable to answer my medical questions, refused to connect me to someone who could unless I scheduled an appt. So I did, the nurse only holds shot clinics twice a month.....since my MMR is nowhere to be found they said I'd need two...to be given 28 days apart. After the two step TB waaaay past my school's deadline. Their varicella vaccine is two shots given six weeks apart. So that would have done me in. Refusing to give up, I went to an Urgent care that believed me about the MMR, happily marked the initial vaccine done 13 years ago on my physical sheet, and THEY have a varicalla vaccine that's one shot....and my school physical form says varicella vaccine-singular, not plural. They were also a bit cheaper. Please don't be dumb like me....get this stuff done early. It can be a difficult process.
