Day after the Second Covid 19 Vaccine
I love (agape) my friends and generally humankind. I’m not perfect so I don’t dare say I agape everyone every single day. However, I do try to respect everyone. In fact, I’m writing this here instead putting up a long thing in Facebook because one of my dearest friends got upset that I wrote about my experience with the first vaccine on that social media page.
You see, she is against the Covid 19 vaccine and sends marvelous e-mails from doctors, scientists and more to prove her point. I don’t quote anyone. I read and make up my mind as to what I want to do. I emphasized the fact that I respect each person’s individual decision and did not want to make them change their minds. All I am interested in doing is writing about my personal experience with this vaccine.
The first one was great. The wait was almost non-existent, the needle not felt. I, a 1B classified person seventy-three years young), left Fair Park in Dallas, the place for the general county vaccines in literally less than an hour after driving in. The only thing I felt was a little soreness where I had been pricked.
This time, it was a bit different. Wow there were cars snaking up and down a giant parking lot in Fair Park. So, I immediately realized this was going to be a prick through the window of the car, with no the cute little golf carts taking us in and having us sit inside a building, waiting for our turn.
In a way, I had guessed right, though I had taken the precaution of going after two in the afternoon, as they told us online that the afternoon was not as full as the morning. I even brought a book along, one of my own novels, A Question of Seduction — Agape. Why? Well, when you self-publish you usually don’t have an editor and always find at least one error. The great thing is that you can then correct it for whoever gets the next printed or electronic version. Besides, in these pandemic times, any gathering provides an opportunity to present one’s work.
So, I followed the snake, forward stop, wait, forward, stop, wait…..I had gotten there at around two thirty and passed three, three thirty. At that point, was directed out of the snake to a place where I was shown a parking spot. A very nice lady started asking me to produce some papers and then brought up some questions. No problem. There was down time and two of us started talking…yes, my books. Since she was an elder, not as old as I, but not a spring chicken, we somehow got to the books. Yes, she said she would get Choices since that is what we women do is make choices every day and live with them. Hey, can you blame me? Coronavirus has blocked so many opportunities to present my works. Besides, with the limited travel these days, Choices takes you to Africa, to the ski slopes of Europe, and a romance filled Rome. Don’t mind looking for mistakes in that book, too!!
Finally, past four, I got the prick from a young man. Didn’t feel a thing. Was pointed to another line. There was the fifteen-minute wait for any bad reactions. Well, I got out my bottle of vitamin and electrolyte filled water and a banana (potassium). Friends of mine who are in a retirement community advised that this was what they were told to take immediately after the vaccine and flouted the fact that none of their group had any bad reactions.
Finally, after being told how cute I was in my purple shirt and mask (elder vanity), I drove out from Fair Park. Of course, I turned right and wound up going east whereas I should have been going west. Lost a good half hour as a result, especially since this was traffic time. Only got home at half past five.
But guess? It is the day after. I have no pain except for the slightly sore spot where the needle went in. I slept well and am about to go running/walking with my four-legged nephew, Puga!!
By the way, if you want to know more about ‘agape’, do get both volumes of A Question of Seduction. The first volume is ‘eros’ and the second one ‘agape’. I never understood why we don’t have more words for different kinds of ‘love’.
