 Every year, I care for patients in the ICU who are incredibly sick, patients who have tubes down their throats, machines breathing for them, and they're desperately clinging to life all because of an infection that's preventable, and that infection is the flu. Early part of this year, I had decided not to receive the flu vaccine. I ended up getting sick from the flu. I ended up in the hospital. Organs were failing to come to find out, and if it wasn't for the great doctors here at Kaiser Permanente, I wouldn't be here today. I want to emphasize that the flu vaccine is the single most important thing that you can do to protect yourself during the flu season. But it's not just you we're trying to protect. We'd like to protect your children, your family, your grandparents, and all the loved ones that are in your life. So please get the flu vaccine. Don't end up like me. Remember, get the flu shot because I know I will.