First, it's worth it, and I don't want to deter anyone from getting the vaccine. Second, I had the second dose on Thursday midday and have been out of action.
Fever, chills, sweating, weakness where I had to sit quick before I collapsed, aches. Very much like a flu really.
The nearly collapsing happened a few minutes ago, so I'm planning an exciting time of just sitting and knitting. But I don't get nauseous trying to knit now so that's better than yesterday.
I have my two badges, one per dose, on my suede bag, where they stick well. It's just an informal way to notify anyone who sees me out casually once I resume my shopping.
Handsome Son, thanks to our team effort, was able to get the j and j in the on-site clinic where he works. They gave their own signed up food handling employees priority on the doses, when there was a sudden shipment of vaccine yesterday. After all our frantic searching!
I was in the middle of trying to get him in to a site north of us, when the supply suddenly opened up, only to have it fully booked, thousands of doses, in 15 minutes. Then he texted me from the observation period in his clinic to say stop searching, it's done. One of the most thrilling texts evah.
So our little family is all vaxxed up, and defying the findings of the test groups where his age did worse, mine better, with reactions. He's fine today, I'm still working on it.
I'm so grateful to have it done and now I'm looking for appointments for the friend who drove me to the second dose, and who becomes eligible Monday.
The trips to the appointments and the observation periods were the most social life I've had since March of last year. It was hilarious, older people comparing symptoms!
