Received my vaccine booster
Dec. 3rd, 2021 07:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcI have now received my Moderna booster, following last spring's doses of Pfizer, thanks again to my employer's convenient bulk vaccination program. It was administered late yesterday morning. Today my arm has been somewhat sore, I started today with a headache, also leg ache which lasted for longer, but analgesics with breakfast and lunch largely dealt with those aches. The side effects have been lighter than I expected, I felt a little under the weather this morning and generally improved since.
It is good to know that the boosters appear to be rather effective against COVID-19. However, local case numbers are not encouraging, and the omicron variant is finding its way around the country. I wonder if I should remain unsustainably cautious well into the New Year, in the hope that case rates finally reach a low level. Since this pandemic, I have minimized various in-person contact, including routine medical appointments. After so very many months away from the dental hygienist, I certainly do not look forward to my next visit.
It is good to know that the boosters appear to be rather effective against COVID-19. However, local case numbers are not encouraging, and the omicron variant is finding its way around the country. I wonder if I should remain unsustainably cautious well into the New Year, in the hope that case rates finally reach a low level. Since this pandemic, I have minimized various in-person contact, including routine medical appointments. After so very many months away from the dental hygienist, I certainly do not look forward to my next visit.
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Date: 2021-12-08 05:19 am (UTC)But I am a fringe case: my immune system crashed in '09 and my body no longer produces antibodies, so I anticipated weird reactions. Fortunately my immunologist had me tested a couple of months after my second vaccination and we proved that I actually produced antibodies from the vaccination! A very rare thing indeed! Very few of his immune-compromised patients did this, as in fewer than 10%!
My wife wasn't able to schedule her booster in early November before we were planning on going to Phoenix for Thanksgiving with my dad, we called Walgreens where I got mine and they were doing walk-ins with no appointments! Just do the paperwork and you're good to go! So she was fully buffed before we traveled.
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Date: 2021-12-09 12:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-09 12:57 am (UTC)I was reading today that some people are saying that we could be looking at Covid boosters every six months!
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Date: 2021-12-09 02:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-12-09 02:14 pm (UTC)With my immune disorder, I get 'em like clockwork! :-) I have a folder in my iPhone's Notes app of Medical Stuff, and in it I have a Meds & Vaccinations page. Back in the '90s when I was doing IT for a large police dept a friend gave me a Palm Pilot, and I had all sorts of stuff stored in it: important passwords, IP addresses, etc. In an encrypted app. And I've carried that forward. When my health crashed in '09, Palm was all but dead, smart phones were rising but weren't quite there yet, but the iPod Touch was with a stable OS and a good notes app and as many doctors as I was seeing trying to get diagnosed, that became my information transfer medium.
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Date: 2021-12-09 10:40 pm (UTC)