Aftermath

[pameladean]

I seem to have gotten off pretty easily with my first COVID-19 shot. My arm eventually started hurting and reached maximum annoyance when I was making a late dinner. Reaching out or up were Not Approved. But these actions could be performed and elicited only the occasional yelp or  groan; they were not excruciating or debilitating. I also took two unplanned naps, aided by Saffron. Whether those had anything to do with the shot directly or were the result of my having had a migraine the day before and then needing to get up early, for me, to make the appointment, I have no idea.

Today I'm still pretty tired, but my arm stopped hurting almost on the dot of four, when yesterday I got the injection. This is slightly eerie to me, but I'll take it.

It's very warm for March in Minnesota. I have the office window open. Just now a couple of people walked by, and a child's voice declaimed, "So then I said, 'RELEASE THE CANNONBALLS' and THEN the -- " at which moment a blodge of traffic went by, released by the traffic light at 36th Street, and distorted the rest of the sentence. Chickens might have been involved?  Kittens? Crickets? I have no idea. I glanced out the south-facing window at the retreating walkers, and saw a very Minnesotan sight: a woman and child in puffy jackets, socks and winter boots, and shorts.

David came home from Cleveland on February 17, and will be out of quarantine this Friday. I haven't seen him since December 14. It will be pleasant to catch up.

I feel some lightening of my  burden of stress with even the first vaccine shot. I hope the floodgates of vaccine do open soon and everybody else can get vaccinated as well. I did not think that failing to restrict partners and my friends in general to a very narrow age range would result in quite the situation we have at present. My household has an age range, my partner I don't live with is twelve years younger; my long-running much-loved tea group has an age range; my mother, now fully vaccinated, lives with my brother, who's just enough younger than I am that he will have to wait at least another month. There are also just the random vagaries of how a limited supply of vaccine gets handed out. David is just as eligible as I am under Minnesota's current rules, but we are both with HealthPartners, which is being very slow. I was seen at HCMC for many years and they decided to offer me a shot; but he never was, and so must wait for our actual provider or find something at a pharmacy. Those slots are in very short supply and vanish like the snow. Well, as snow is supposed to vanish. Despite the warm temperatures, ours is taking its sweet time to go away, and just as well, really. It's too early to have bare ground. There will be cold again.

Earlier this afternoon cardinals were calling back and forth in the front yard and across the street. I haven't seen a robin yet, but that doesn't mean they aren't out there.

Pamela

Edited for homonym failure and then typoes. Yeesh.

Comments

[sovay]

Today I'm still pretty tired, but my arm stopped hurting almost on the dot of four, when yesterday I got the injection. This is slightly eerie to me, but I'll take it./i>

Cool!

The haphazardness of the distribution is infuriating.

[catherineldf]

Congratulations! Glad it went smoothly for you. :-)

[pameladean]

Thank you! Now I'm just champing at the bit for everybody else -- and I mean EVERYBODY ELSE -- to get the vaccine too.

P.

[halfmoon_mollie1]

The gentleman who gave me my first shot told me to flex my arm 'every time you remember'. I don't think I remembered too often and I was VERY tired for two nights. Beats getting Covid though.

I walked a little over 5 miles today and saw a whole flock of robins. Apparently I am due for some luck...

Onward and upward.

[pameladean]

I used my arm a lot, though that might be different from consciously flexing it. I'll have to remember that for the second dose. And yes, it sure does beat getting Covid.

Flocks of robins are so great! I hope the luck is lovely.

P.

[halfmoon_mollie1]

I always consider it lucky when I hear from you.

[bibliofile]

Yay! It sounds like the benefits outweigh any problems already.

Happy David back, too.

[pameladean]

Oh, yeah, I could feel way worse than this and still feel it was a net win.

I can't wait to see David in an ordinary way. I hope Lydy isn't missing him too much.

P.

[sartorias]

I hope moe supplies get out, too.

My son, who does hands-on care for severely disabled kids, finally has his appt Thursday.

[pameladean]

Ooof, yes, high time for that all around.

P.

[dreamshark]

Richard had his second shot yesterday (at 1:45pm). He has a pretty sore arm, but said he's had no other symptoms. But he offered to cook dinner, and after he did so admitted that he was kind of exhausted by the effort, so I think he's experiencing some fatigue. So far no chills and fever, though. Glad your symptoms have been minimal. Which vaccine did you get?

[pameladean]

Oh, it's great Richard is fully vaccinated. Arm soreness and fatigue are said to be the most common symptoms, so I guess he's just being normal. I hope it goes off quickly. And I hope you get a chance to see what your reaction is SOON.

HCMC says my vaccine was the Pfizer.

P.

[asakiyume]

A world in which we will NEVER KNOW about the results of releasing the cannonballs!

I saw a cardinal this morning. He came, arranged himself in our apple tree, and started to sing. It was lovely.

[mrissa]

I am experiencing that "age range of friends" in the opposite way: as a 42yo with no relevant preexisting conditions and a job that positively glories in me staying in the house, I will be vaccinated absolute last...but I get to see my friends starting to cascade into serious numbers of them vaccinated, and that's so lovely.

I had been going on the general adulthood feeling that once you're past 25 or so, 3-4 years age difference is "the same age," and this has exploded that completely. One of our mutual friends is "the same age" as you and just in that 3-4 year age difference where...nope. So I had that rug pulled out from under me. But on the whole, still seeing many friends vaccinated, yay.

[pameladean]

Yes, I've generally felt that anything up to five years was just no difference at all, though acknowledging theoretically that when one gets way up there in decades, smaller differences in age start seeming as they did when one hadn't even collected one decade.

And yes, I am repeatedly delighted that friends are getting vaccinated, but every once in a while I realize that I do not know how old they are and it turns out they are on the wrong side of these divides.

P.