I just got my second vaccination for Covid. Almost no reaction at all from the first one. Maybe a little dragged...tired, body aches and a desire to cough that I rarely indulged.
The second one, about two weeks later, was yesterday. It took a couple of hours to get to the Reggie Lewis center at Roxbury crossing in Boston. The line went quickly, and the shot and observation time were both painless. There did not seem to be much soreness in the last 14 hours, in fact less than last time. However, I can feel a storm brewing inside me.
With any luck it will knock me down a bit and force me to rest from my love of working(more on that later). My hands are cold and my forehead is warm...but not hot.
I do not remember all the immunizations I have had in my life. Polio and measles stand out in my elementary school years...I know there were a number of others. Our generation had many of them. I was talking about Whooping Cough to someone the other day and she was surprised that there was an ailment with a name like that. I thought to my self...maybe we had a shot for that so people don't get it much anymore. Someone please let me know.
My thought is that we seemed to survive a number of these vaccinations and I am a little shocked at the fuss people make over them. Oh, I am saddened when I hear of young people getting other problems as a result of them, but I feel that we need to look at the greater good. Think of the millions who did not experience polio and smallpox. Everything is a crapshoot in life and we often just have to bite the bullet and do it, letting the chips fall where they may.
Anyway, I will keep you posted as to any side effects. Let me see...a few days of illness balanced against an eternity of dead...I know what my choice had to be.
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