Got my first COVID-19 vaccine today. I'm a Pfizer boi, if you were curious. I seem to have been mostly free of side-effects, though my arm is aching and feeling very "heavy" right now and I did have a little nap earlier. (The latter wasn't necessarily vaccine-related; I just felt like a nap.) I seem to have escaped headaches and feeling "ill", though — for the moment at least.
I was impressed with the efficiency of the operation at the local health centre. They had incoming cars organised nicely, people split into different queues and a couple of separate "pods" operating simultaneously. There was a constant stream of people coming in, having their initial assessment/talk with the nurse, then heading in for the jab itself, and at no point was there any real waiting around for more than a couple of minutes at a time. In fact, the longest wait I had was the 15 minutes after the jab where they tell you to go sit in a room and do nothing just in case you keel over dead or something.
Thankfully, I have not keeled over dead, with the only slightly adverse effects being what I've already described. The injection itself also felt kind of like a bit of a non-event; I barely even felt anything. I'm not complaining, mind; I'm rather uneasy around medical stuff at the best of times, with said uneasiness increasing the more "serious" stuff is around — I'm terrified of the prospect of having an operation, for example, even though I know I'll need one at some point to fix my hernia.
Thankfully, all the staff at the centre did a great job of setting me (and indeed everyone else) at ease, and by the time the injection itself happened it was just… not a big deal at all. "You ready?" the nurse said. "Yep," I said. "It's done," she said. And that was that.
Anyway. That's a notable step back towards normality, I guess. Got another one to look forward to in a while, then I'll be all vaxxed up. Hurrah.
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