"They do say you might get flu-like symptoms but I was not expecting to get lots of them together.
"I had the vaccine at 12:00 on Saturday and I felt fine for the rest of the day, until about 18:00 that evening."
Mr Kidd had:
- body aches
- a fever
- a headache
- sore eyes
- nausea
- a temperature
- freezing cold extremities
"It felt like I had plunged my hands and feet into ice or a freezer," he says.
"It was really painful and my head was banging away. It was the worst headache I have ever had in my life.
"And my eyes were burning, along with the obligatory nausea.
"I couldn't get comfortable all through the night."