As the flu jab clinics at my doctors surgery were while I was away, I had an appointment with a nurse this morning. I got into work, chatted to people about Canada and stuff that had gone on while I was away, discovered I had about 200 emails to go through (of which I needed to read about 2) and then went down to the surgery.

There, their computers had gone down, so it was complete chaos. I didn't help by not knowing the name of the nurse I had an appointment with. It hadn't seemed important to write down at the time (I only knew the time of my appointment because I'd put it in the work calendar). They were writing things down on bits of paper and the nurse gave me an asthma review since I'd had a letter telling me it was due. She was trying to remember the questions the computer would ask her about my asthma and neither of us had any idea if my peak flow was normal.

Even though I'm not that keen on needles I know a flu jab doesn't hurt and I don't have any reactions afterwards. Except that this one did hurt, both when she stuck the needle in my arm and when the stuff went in there. I didn't think much of it, except that just now I leant against the arm of the sofa and my arm hurt. I looked in the mirror and it's bruised. Great.