Reading this post brought me back to the night my younger sister finally decided to get her flu shot after months of hesitation. She’d spent weeks scrolling through forums, convinced that the vaccine was more harmful than helpful, and I could see the anxiety building each time she talked about it. I remember sitting with her in the waiting room, holding her hand while she stared at the pamphlet, and trying to explain that the risk of severe flu far outweighed the tiny chance of side effects https://www.monash.edu/ When the nurse gently administered the injection, she let out a shaky laugh and said, “That wasn’t so bad.” A few days later she was back to her normal self, and we…
Reading this post brought me back to the night my younger sister finally decided to get her flu shot after months of hesitation. She’d spent weeks scrolling through forums, convinced that the vaccine was more harmful than helpful, and I could see the anxiety building each time she talked about it. I remember sitting with her in the waiting room, holding her hand while she stared at the pamphlet, and trying to explain that the risk of severe flu far outweighed the tiny chance of side effects https://www.monash.edu/ When the nurse gently administered the injection, she let out a shaky laugh and said, “That wasn’t so bad.” A few days later she was back to her normal self, and we…