Plague 2021 #6 Vaccinated!
Mar. 14th, 2021 04:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
geowenchOn Friday, the Mad Scientist and I both got our second COVID jab. I inadvertently jumped the gun - I was was supposed to get my second jab next Friday, but misunderstood and so got it after only 2 weeks instead of 3, which is, hopefully, just fine. We both had fairly minimal symptoms the first time, mainly just some fatigue, but this second one, WOW, it really knocked us both flat. He woke up early Saturday morning with fullbody chills and shivering. I got them later that day. We both had intense body aches and intermittent chills all day on Saturday. It was about the sickest either of can remember being (he said the only time he's felt worse/sicker is when he was hospitalized with pneumonia for 10 days 6 years ago). We are much improved today (Sunday) though still pretty low energy and now I've got a painfully swollen lymph node in my armpit, which is apparently pretty common.
We seem to have gotten our jabs earlier than most ... three reasons for this, I think. 1) We are both over 50 and have at least one major comorbidity (himself is diabetic and I'm asthmatic) which put us in Group 2; 2) OK is a pretty low population state, so able to get through its Group 1 population more quickly than the bigger states, and 3) We both work at the university, which has it's own supply of vaccines, and so were able to get in easily once our group came up, none of this Hunger Games Lottery crap.
I fully intend to give it a full week to take effect, and even after, will of course continue to social distance and wear a mask, but am *really* looking forward to doing some things like going to Trader Joe's, and going to a museum or two - I read an article that museums are by far the safest thing to do indoors during COVID, which is, of course right up our alley. I don't foresee any restaurant eating in my immediate future, at least not until it can be done outdoors. This may be a permanent change for me - the thought of being indoors with 50 or 100 people all breathing, talking, eating .... EEEWWWWW.
We seem to have gotten our jabs earlier than most ... three reasons for this, I think. 1) We are both over 50 and have at least one major comorbidity (himself is diabetic and I'm asthmatic) which put us in Group 2; 2) OK is a pretty low population state, so able to get through its Group 1 population more quickly than the bigger states, and 3) We both work at the university, which has it's own supply of vaccines, and so were able to get in easily once our group came up, none of this Hunger Games Lottery crap.
I fully intend to give it a full week to take effect, and even after, will of course continue to social distance and wear a mask, but am *really* looking forward to doing some things like going to Trader Joe's, and going to a museum or two - I read an article that museums are by far the safest thing to do indoors during COVID, which is, of course right up our alley. I don't foresee any restaurant eating in my immediate future, at least not until it can be done outdoors. This may be a permanent change for me - the thought of being indoors with 50 or 100 people all breathing, talking, eating .... EEEWWWWW.
