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azurelunatic) wrote2021-03-17 07:59 pm
azurelunatic) wrote2021-03-17 07:59 pm
#1 in my arm
Yesterday night was not a good night for sleeping, since the left side of my nose refused to drain, resulting in me sleeping mostly on my right side for the whole night.
Yesterday day I discovered that the "lower back" pain that I've been dealing with for a while? Positioned wrong to be kidney pain. Positioned exactly right to be hip pain.
I spent most of yesterday in a muscle relaxant doze with spikes of extremely annoyed hip. I crawled out of bed this morning for long enough to hose myself off in the shower, then crawled back to bed with extremely wet hair and slept until well after noon.
Today the eligibility tiers rolled in my favor.
Which is why at around 1pm I was scrabbling through listings for where we could go to get jabbed. I found a likely-looking place, figured I'd try to book something for both me and Alex at the same time, selected 1:50pm for shits and giggles (the minimum comfortable amount of time I thought I could get out the door and there) intending to try for a second appointment for Alex, it asked me to log in with MyChart, and while it was working on that I ran to get going-out clothes and by the time I got back, holy shit it had made the appointment and it was time to DIVE OUT THE DOOR and get Alex's appointment while on the road. Which I didn't say out loud until we were already on the road and the location was out of appointments. Naturally. They got an appointment at a nearby-ish location at 3:30, as I foresaw random delays.
It turned out the location was the same place I'd picked up the medical loungers earlier, so I knew where to go and which lane to be in (extremely important). We skidded in for my appointment at about the appointment time; it was a mass event but indoors rather than drive-through, I surmised by lack of large parking lot signs saying where to go. So I zoomed in. The person in front of me in line was being told that they did not have extras if you did not already have an appointment; he was disgusted with this. I was slightly late but that was okay: I had mine reserved. I got a laminated sheet for screening questions and a dry-erase marker, and was directed to a specific seat in a section of a large room. It turned out that we were being seated by arrival time, so the person could point to us one by one and have us take our turn. I filled out the form, and specified that my "blood thinner" was 162mg of aspirin daily.
I'm not sure what criteria they were using for which vaccine. I got assigned Moderna. I took selfies in the waiting room, aware that my hair was basically standing on end. I hadn't had time for hair brushing, breakfast, or pills before I rolled out the door. I overheard the waiting room monitors suggesting to the under-observation side of the room that they take pictures of the vaccination record card so they'd have it in case they misplaced the card. I thought that was a great idea.
There was a little wait once I got called to the room for my injection. I filled out my vaccine card, gave my information, and then waited for the fresh bottle to be taken out of the freezer and come up to a nice injectable temperature. I asked the person doing the injection if I could take a selfie of the vaccine going in my arm, and if so, would she prefer to be in or out. She preferred out. I was given half an hour of observation rather than the usual 15 minutes, because I had (non-medical) allergies. Nothing systemic, but they would rather be safe than sorry. Fortunately, I'd scheduled extra time.
The syringe came, all filled up with the cloudy-white vaccine. I had my camera ready, and lined up my shot as she lined up hers. I took a few, and showed them to her when we were done. Her gloves were just visible, nothing else.
I got handed informational paperwork, my orange card with my observation end time, and my vaccination record card. I took more selfies.
The half-hour sped by fairly quickly, then it was back to the car to take Alex to get their vaccination. The site of that was the same as where my uterus inspector's office is, so I felt confident in getting there in a reasonable amount of time. Google was unaware of some recent changes to the I-5 construction, and the mess that is the future site of some light rail extension, so I had two detours before actually getting to the correct parking garage.
The parking garage attendant still quizzes people on our reason for being there today, I think the rationale is that medical reasons parking is not charged and general public parking is supposed to be. I chose a parking space that did not require stairs-or-vehicle-ramp to get to the elevator, thank you very much. I tried returning the call I'd gotten on the road, but the call did not connect. Probably phishing, then.
I asked Alex whether we should go straight home or try for some bananas at one of the local food distribution points. And since that was close to the local Sonic...
So we arrived home with a bunch of banana-bread-ready bananas, a few apples, and BORGOR for the whole household (minus cats). Murderface had been doing anxiety-laps while we were away, then knocked over the trash can in search of BORGOR (the juice on my discarded tomatoes, because I'd forgotten to specify no tomato).
Alex and I are scheduled for the same time and place for our #2 vaccines, in April.
Belovedest has yet to hit eligibility, although I have finally gotten off my ass to petition the relevant government agency to add their category of workplace to the list. Given that places in their library system with the biggest digital access gaps are already starting to open to the public for internet access purposes, I think that adding government employee librarians who have to do more-than-curbside is a reasonable step. We'll see if I get a reply.
I think two people from #AdventuresOfStNoNo got theirs today as well.
Yesterday day I discovered that the "lower back" pain that I've been dealing with for a while? Positioned wrong to be kidney pain. Positioned exactly right to be hip pain.
I spent most of yesterday in a muscle relaxant doze with spikes of extremely annoyed hip. I crawled out of bed this morning for long enough to hose myself off in the shower, then crawled back to bed with extremely wet hair and slept until well after noon.
Today the eligibility tiers rolled in my favor.
Which is why at around 1pm I was scrabbling through listings for where we could go to get jabbed. I found a likely-looking place, figured I'd try to book something for both me and Alex at the same time, selected 1:50pm for shits and giggles (the minimum comfortable amount of time I thought I could get out the door and there) intending to try for a second appointment for Alex, it asked me to log in with MyChart, and while it was working on that I ran to get going-out clothes and by the time I got back, holy shit it had made the appointment and it was time to DIVE OUT THE DOOR and get Alex's appointment while on the road. Which I didn't say out loud until we were already on the road and the location was out of appointments. Naturally. They got an appointment at a nearby-ish location at 3:30, as I foresaw random delays.
It turned out the location was the same place I'd picked up the medical loungers earlier, so I knew where to go and which lane to be in (extremely important). We skidded in for my appointment at about the appointment time; it was a mass event but indoors rather than drive-through, I surmised by lack of large parking lot signs saying where to go. So I zoomed in. The person in front of me in line was being told that they did not have extras if you did not already have an appointment; he was disgusted with this. I was slightly late but that was okay: I had mine reserved. I got a laminated sheet for screening questions and a dry-erase marker, and was directed to a specific seat in a section of a large room. It turned out that we were being seated by arrival time, so the person could point to us one by one and have us take our turn. I filled out the form, and specified that my "blood thinner" was 162mg of aspirin daily.
I'm not sure what criteria they were using for which vaccine. I got assigned Moderna. I took selfies in the waiting room, aware that my hair was basically standing on end. I hadn't had time for hair brushing, breakfast, or pills before I rolled out the door. I overheard the waiting room monitors suggesting to the under-observation side of the room that they take pictures of the vaccination record card so they'd have it in case they misplaced the card. I thought that was a great idea.
There was a little wait once I got called to the room for my injection. I filled out my vaccine card, gave my information, and then waited for the fresh bottle to be taken out of the freezer and come up to a nice injectable temperature. I asked the person doing the injection if I could take a selfie of the vaccine going in my arm, and if so, would she prefer to be in or out. She preferred out. I was given half an hour of observation rather than the usual 15 minutes, because I had (non-medical) allergies. Nothing systemic, but they would rather be safe than sorry. Fortunately, I'd scheduled extra time.
The syringe came, all filled up with the cloudy-white vaccine. I had my camera ready, and lined up my shot as she lined up hers. I took a few, and showed them to her when we were done. Her gloves were just visible, nothing else.
I got handed informational paperwork, my orange card with my observation end time, and my vaccination record card. I took more selfies.
The half-hour sped by fairly quickly, then it was back to the car to take Alex to get their vaccination. The site of that was the same as where my uterus inspector's office is, so I felt confident in getting there in a reasonable amount of time. Google was unaware of some recent changes to the I-5 construction, and the mess that is the future site of some light rail extension, so I had two detours before actually getting to the correct parking garage.
The parking garage attendant still quizzes people on our reason for being there today, I think the rationale is that medical reasons parking is not charged and general public parking is supposed to be. I chose a parking space that did not require stairs-or-vehicle-ramp to get to the elevator, thank you very much. I tried returning the call I'd gotten on the road, but the call did not connect. Probably phishing, then.
I asked Alex whether we should go straight home or try for some bananas at one of the local food distribution points. And since that was close to the local Sonic...
So we arrived home with a bunch of banana-bread-ready bananas, a few apples, and BORGOR for the whole household (minus cats). Murderface had been doing anxiety-laps while we were away, then knocked over the trash can in search of BORGOR (the juice on my discarded tomatoes, because I'd forgotten to specify no tomato).
Alex and I are scheduled for the same time and place for our #2 vaccines, in April.
Belovedest has yet to hit eligibility, although I have finally gotten off my ass to petition the relevant government agency to add their category of workplace to the list. Given that places in their library system with the biggest digital access gaps are already starting to open to the public for internet access purposes, I think that adding government employee librarians who have to do more-than-curbside is a reasonable step. We'll see if I get a reply.
I think two people from #AdventuresOfStNoNo got theirs today as well.
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Technically it was by time of entering the waiting room, as there were multiple check-ins, but close enough.
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*realises, even as the results appear, what has tomato juice and can be pronounced BORGOR*
Congrats to you and Alex on your vaccination!
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I am so relieved to have this jab and have the next appointment scheduled.
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*ponders ordering fast food or going to get some. by car, obviously. one does not simply walk into borgor*
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