Fully Pfizer-ized!
I FINALLY got my second vax day before yesterday, and therein lies a tale... I am now deeply envious of all those who are allowed or even forced to schedule their second appointment when they go in for their first!
I fully expected to receive another email inviting me to schedule appointment #2 just about three weeks after I got the first, but no such luck. Meanwhile, Belovèd Spousal Unit had already received his invitation and scheduled his second shot right on target. I was hoping to schedule mine for approximately the same time...
V-safe texted me the Tuesday before I was due that it was time to schedule already, and I had heard nothing at all from the county, so I spent a fruitless 40 minutes on hold before I gave up, having other things to do that day. I poked around on their website, and their COVID-19 FAQ informed me that I should get an invitation 4-7 days in advance of my target date. Well, that didn't happen.
I finally sent an email saying essentially, WTF alreaady?!?, and got back a response to email again if I still hadn't received my invitation by 7pm on Saturday. To no one's surprise at all at this point, I didn't, so I emailed back after dinner.
Astoundingly, I did then get an invitation at last at about 10:00pm. Predictably, I was not able to coordinate my vax with Belovèd Spousal Unit's; the earliest now available was the following Saturday. Given the times available and other considerations, I passed on that date, which pushed me out to Monday. Happily, that allowed me to schedule at the same place I'd had my first vax, which after the terrifying cattle call I observed at Belovèd Spousal Unit's first was a bit of a blessing.
So on Sunday we continued with our plans of assisting friends move big items into storage which wouldn't be handled by their movers (Belovèd Spousal Unit had finally been able to get our van back in running order via our stimulus check), Monday he got his second vax (with a better managed cattle call than his first), and then we returned $HOME to the inlaws.
Sunday afternoon we came back down so we wouldn't have to get up stupid early to get me to my appointment on Monday.
I was happy that the line-wrangling was managed just as beautifully as my previous visit. Why isn't it a standard to check in remotely (when possible) and stay in your car until called in? I got my vaccination exactly at the appointed time, but alas, it wasn't as surprisingly painless as the first time, because the guy got me involved in the process and never gave me a chance to pretend I wasn't there. Then I duly waited my 15 minutes in "post-op" observation.
This time, having achieved a better grasp of what motion actually works the deltoid via paying attention to exactly what exacerbated the pain last time (random waving doesn't, but I can't adequately explain it without demonstration), I assiduously did that motion repeatedly until I got back into the car, and sporadically (although sparsely) for the rest of the evening. That worked so well that I have had just about zero pain at all in my arm this time around. I keep poking to see if any has developed, but the only kind of pain I get is "Ow! There's a finger jabbing me!"
I felt fine for the rest of that night, and mostly fine for the majority of our trip back $HOME to the inlaws despite temperatures up in the 80s, but the tired and achy finally fell on me hard about 26 hours post-vax. I also eventually realized that I wasn't cooling down after unloading the car because maybe I had a temperature...? Yup; I sure did; it was exactly 100°F. So I was upstairs in bed by about 9:30, and almost out like a light.
I had heard a couple of weeks ago that there was some suspicion that these vaccinations may be affecting menstrual cycles in various ways. My data point is that my first period after my first vax began when expected and proceeded normally, but the next began after only 2 weeks instead of a month (I have never in my life had one earlier than 29 days), and has been heavier so far than any I've had in at least 5 years...and I had better wrap this up and go change my pad! But that at least explains the week of being unwontedly tired the week before I got my second vax.
Today has been more of the same; a bit feverish, a bit flu-like achy, but no specific arm pain. Hopefully I won't have too much more of this, because I'm in the uncomfortable position of feeling too lousy for chores, but feeling too well to ask anyone else to do them instead. Crossposted from https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/1756770.html ;
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I fully expected to receive another email inviting me to schedule appointment #2 just about three weeks after I got the first, but no such luck. Meanwhile, Belovèd Spousal Unit had already received his invitation and scheduled his second shot right on target. I was hoping to schedule mine for approximately the same time...
V-safe texted me the Tuesday before I was due that it was time to schedule already, and I had heard nothing at all from the county, so I spent a fruitless 40 minutes on hold before I gave up, having other things to do that day. I poked around on their website, and their COVID-19 FAQ informed me that I should get an invitation 4-7 days in advance of my target date. Well, that didn't happen.
I finally sent an email saying essentially, WTF alreaady?!?, and got back a response to email again if I still hadn't received my invitation by 7pm on Saturday. To no one's surprise at all at this point, I didn't, so I emailed back after dinner.
Astoundingly, I did then get an invitation at last at about 10:00pm. Predictably, I was not able to coordinate my vax with Belovèd Spousal Unit's; the earliest now available was the following Saturday. Given the times available and other considerations, I passed on that date, which pushed me out to Monday. Happily, that allowed me to schedule at the same place I'd had my first vax, which after the terrifying cattle call I observed at Belovèd Spousal Unit's first was a bit of a blessing.
So on Sunday we continued with our plans of assisting friends move big items into storage which wouldn't be handled by their movers (Belovèd Spousal Unit had finally been able to get our van back in running order via our stimulus check), Monday he got his second vax (with a better managed cattle call than his first), and then we returned $HOME to the inlaws.
Sunday afternoon we came back down so we wouldn't have to get up stupid early to get me to my appointment on Monday.
I was happy that the line-wrangling was managed just as beautifully as my previous visit. Why isn't it a standard to check in remotely (when possible) and stay in your car until called in? I got my vaccination exactly at the appointed time, but alas, it wasn't as surprisingly painless as the first time, because the guy got me involved in the process and never gave me a chance to pretend I wasn't there. Then I duly waited my 15 minutes in "post-op" observation.
This time, having achieved a better grasp of what motion actually works the deltoid via paying attention to exactly what exacerbated the pain last time (random waving doesn't, but I can't adequately explain it without demonstration), I assiduously did that motion repeatedly until I got back into the car, and sporadically (although sparsely) for the rest of the evening. That worked so well that I have had just about zero pain at all in my arm this time around. I keep poking to see if any has developed, but the only kind of pain I get is "Ow! There's a finger jabbing me!"
I felt fine for the rest of that night, and mostly fine for the majority of our trip back $HOME to the inlaws despite temperatures up in the 80s, but the tired and achy finally fell on me hard about 26 hours post-vax. I also eventually realized that I wasn't cooling down after unloading the car because maybe I had a temperature...? Yup; I sure did; it was exactly 100°F. So I was upstairs in bed by about 9:30, and almost out like a light.
I had heard a couple of weeks ago that there was some suspicion that these vaccinations may be affecting menstrual cycles in various ways. My data point is that my first period after my first vax began when expected and proceeded normally, but the next began after only 2 weeks instead of a month (I have never in my life had one earlier than 29 days), and has been heavier so far than any I've had in at least 5 years...and I had better wrap this up and go change my pad! But that at least explains the week of being unwontedly tired the week before I got my second vax.
Today has been more of the same; a bit feverish, a bit flu-like achy, but no specific arm pain. Hopefully I won't have too much more of this, because I'm in the uncomfortable position of feeling too lousy for chores, but feeling too well to ask anyone else to do them instead. Crossposted from https://montuos.dreamwidth.org/1756770.html ;
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