I did my public duty and got my shot on Sunday. Ottawa is giving people wristbands with numbers on them and telling people when to come back. When I arrived at 7:30 there were already 200 people ahead of me, so I was told to come back with my wristband at 10:30. At 10:30 I was almost immediately called into the vaccination room. Took about 30 minutes from entering the room to going to the 15 minute wait area.
And, yeah, it hurts for me to swim. But that happens with any flu shot. The seasonal flu shot I had last year made my arm swell and was almost rock hard. The pain didn't totally go away until about a month later.
I have had absolutely no side effects (other than the pain in the arm), but that may be because I may have already had H1N1 (as mentioned earlier in this thread).
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