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2nd Vaccine Shot
4 years ago
Got my second Pfizer shot this Friday.
I planned it this way, because I figured I'd get a little sick.
I wasn't wrong. Nothing serious, just a low-grade fever, achy, feeling like someone switched my transmission to 4-Lo but forgot to put the hubs in. Lots of engine noise, but also lots of not going anywhere. Meh, I always get sick from vaccinations. The only one that doesn't really bother me, is the seasonal influenza. When I was military, the one I hated the most, was Typhoid. Holy Jesus, that one would pole-axe me between the eyes and drop me like a rock for two days. When I was a kid, I needed a Tetanus booster, but all they had on hand was DPT, so they gave me that.
That...was an UN-FUN weekend spent locked to the couch.
Oddly enough, I didn't have any reaction to the Anthrax vaccine, but I only got one dose of that before they cancelled the whole program. I consider myself lucky. Getting my Smallpox vaccination in 06 was fun! I'd read Richard Preston's "Demon In The Freezer", so I knew what I was getting into. They dip a bi-furicated needle into a soup of live virus, then jab your arm 15 times with the needle. OHMYGOD that scab ITCHES!!! And you can't touch it for 2 weeks, else you'll spread the pustules, so you can't scratch.
But yeah. Feeling blergh. Figured this would happen, did it anyway, because duh, I don't feel like dying, thank you very much. I've been wearing a mask in public since March 2020 when this shit got really scary, so I'm not going to miss my chance for the lifeboat. Let the deniers and GQP cleanse themselves from the gene pool, thank you very much.
In the meantime...blergh.
I planned it this way, because I figured I'd get a little sick.
I wasn't wrong. Nothing serious, just a low-grade fever, achy, feeling like someone switched my transmission to 4-Lo but forgot to put the hubs in. Lots of engine noise, but also lots of not going anywhere. Meh, I always get sick from vaccinations. The only one that doesn't really bother me, is the seasonal influenza. When I was military, the one I hated the most, was Typhoid. Holy Jesus, that one would pole-axe me between the eyes and drop me like a rock for two days. When I was a kid, I needed a Tetanus booster, but all they had on hand was DPT, so they gave me that.
That...was an UN-FUN weekend spent locked to the couch.
Oddly enough, I didn't have any reaction to the Anthrax vaccine, but I only got one dose of that before they cancelled the whole program. I consider myself lucky. Getting my Smallpox vaccination in 06 was fun! I'd read Richard Preston's "Demon In The Freezer", so I knew what I was getting into. They dip a bi-furicated needle into a soup of live virus, then jab your arm 15 times with the needle. OHMYGOD that scab ITCHES!!! And you can't touch it for 2 weeks, else you'll spread the pustules, so you can't scratch.
But yeah. Feeling blergh. Figured this would happen, did it anyway, because duh, I don't feel like dying, thank you very much. I've been wearing a mask in public since March 2020 when this shit got really scary, so I'm not going to miss my chance for the lifeboat. Let the deniers and GQP cleanse themselves from the gene pool, thank you very much.
In the meantime...blergh.
They said they felt like they got hit by a truck, and it backed over them a few times to make sure they stayed down. For two weeks. About half said they got secondary pneumonia, and *all* of them said they weren't "right" for about two weeks after the supposed "recovery."
Our government only managed to vaccinate 7% (two shots) of people now. Terrible slow. We're are now at the 60year'ish people to be vaccinated.
my right arm is gonna hate me again lol