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Rose:
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 12, 2021, 10:17:04 PM ---I'm good! I didn't feel any different yesterday, but woke up with the sore arm this morning. It's still a little tender, but not too bad. I haven't had any other side effects. I'm glad it hasn't been bad for you either. Yay second dose!
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Which one did you end up getting? That was me pretty much after the first one.
Honestly I just want to feel safe doing things. Huzzah vaccines!
RokofAges75:
Moderna was what they offered me, so that's what I got. I hear that one is worse with side effects after the second dose. I'll get my second one during spring break, so at least I'll be home anyway if I feel like crap afterwards. But my mom already had both of hers (Moderna) and said the worst side effect for her was the sore arm. So maybe it won't be bad at all.
nicksgal:
--- Quote from: Rose on March 13, 2021, 03:08:37 AM ---Which one did you end up getting? That was me pretty much after the first one.
Honestly I just want to feel safe doing things. Huzzah vaccines!
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Same. Can't wait!
--- Quote from: RokofAges75 on March 13, 2021, 09:44:15 AM ---Moderna was what they offered me, so that's what I got. I hear that one is worse with side effects after the second dose. I'll get my second one during spring break, so at least I'll be home anyway if I feel like crap afterwards. But my mom already had both of hers (Moderna) and said the worst side effect for her was the sore arm. So maybe it won't be bad at all.
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That was my experience too. I showed up for my first dose appointment and they handed me a form and said "We're giving the Pfizer vaccine today, so check that box." Then I showed up for my second dose appointment and they said "You're here for your second dose, right? It's Pfizer today, make sure to give them your vaccination card from your first dose." I'm guessing they're doing second doses at different times than first doses because everyone who arrived around the same time I did said it was their second for the same vaccine.
Did you get to pick, Rose?
Day two was much worse than day one, but overall fine. Still the sore arm, but I was also completely exhausted. Temperature regulation was a little more extreme than typical (though our classroom fluctuates in general between way too hot and way too cold, I was just vigilant about giving myself temp checks if I felt off and it went back to normal fairly quickly with a thermostat or clothing layering adjustment). I managed to make it through the work day, but came home and thought "I'll get some writing in this afternoon" and wrote a sentence, then laid on the couch, napped, and watched Friends until I went to bed at 9:30.
Day three, arm is sore only if I lift it over my head or the area right around the injection site gets touched. Though I heard some people say they felt worse maybe three days afterward, so we'll see what happens tomorrow.
I guess all of this makes sense since a vaccine is basically a puncture wound in the name of health and puncture wounds hurt! I flinched a little, since I'm not a huge fan of shots, and the hospital employee said "No one likes pokes." And I thought, I'm sure this is what you tell the children at this children's hospital all the time, but I'm also in my thirties? You're right though, no one likes pokes. Makes me feel a little bad for the amount of times I've had Nick get stabbed. Sorry, Nick, for giving you so many puncture wounds; they hurt! Don't tell him I said that. He can't know that he's my favorite, has control of the plot, and that I feel badly for inflicting pain on him.
RokofAges75:
I'm glad you're feeling better today. Hopefully the worst of it is over!
The nurse who did mine gave me this whole speech beforehand about the possible side effects and her own experience with getting it and how I was making a good choice to get it and how I would be 67% protected after the first dose and that even if I were to contract COVID now, I wouldn't die from it, and on and on and on. I just kept nodding, like, yep, I know, I've heard all this before, I'm ready, just get it over with! She went on about how the vaccine has been thoroughly tested and shown to be safe and effective, even though there are conspiracy theories out there that say otherwise. I was finally like, "I'm not worried; I respect and trust in science," and she was like, "Thank you!!" Then she told me about how she had just talked to a woman who told her she refused to get the vaccine until "Q" told her to. I can only imagine how tired these poor healthcare workers get of trying to convince the batshit crazy conspiracy theorists and other ignorant people to believe in science. God bless them!
nicksgal:
Thanks! Me too! Hopefully yours is smooth for this one and the second dose too!
Sorry you had to get that speech when you kept saying you understood! Mine was basically "Have you read up on the benefits and risks? Do you have any specific questions?" And I said I had and got my one question answered, then got stabbed and went on my merry way.
The amount of people who are anti-vaccine is crazy to me, like they all know that they likely got so many vaccines as children and are doing a disservice to their own children by bringing back things that have pretty much been eradicated by vaccines like all the MMR diseases? That must be a hard job trying to convince people who believe otherwise to get vaccines, I appreciate them for trying.
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