Quite correct for a Sunday except we were there to get our first Covid vaccine injection. I went first at 11:00AM and Colin was booked for thirty minutes later. One of us stayed in the car with the girls. We even found a lovely tree to park under for shade. It all worked out perfectly and we even got our preferred vaccine, Pfizer. Did you know that new words have come into our vocabulary during these Covid times? Some of them are rather interesting. Click here for the link to the article and the top fifteen featured words.
We were at Trinity Baptist Church. I was greeted at the door with someone who pumped sanitizer on my hands and directed me to a check in area to the right. Social distancing signs were everywhere as well as to where to stand. Check in was efficient and quick and I was directed to the line on the right. The white stand at the top mid right held more sanitizer and a person there was handing out two pieces of paper explaining the vaccine, its purpose and of course the side effects along with several other pertinent facts.
Here is where I just came into the grand hall. I asked and there are 35 – 36 nurses who inject a total of 1200 vaccines per day. There are as many tables around the corner to the right. It looks empty as the nurses were rotating though their breaks. When a nurse is ready she will hold up a flag, such as the pink one on the left. As far as I could see it was all female nurses.
I had a lovely Public Health Nurse named Janice. She asked me a number of questions. Such as, had I ever had a colonoscopy, did I have an allergic reaction to cough syrup, did I have any allergies and what were they, did I have an autoimmune condition, had I ever had a colonoscopy, have I ever had a reaction to other vaccines, have I ever had Covid? I might have not remembered a few of her questions but she was very sincere and I could tell she was doing this from her heart and really cared. I honestly did not feel the jab at all. I kept waiting for it but I was already done. I later figured out the colonoscopy and cough syrup questions were related to PEG, an ingredient used as a laxative ( ?? cough syrup relation, but it is in cough syrup ) and also an ingredient in the Pfizer vaccine. Okay so it all makes sense now, sort of 😯
Colin has no idea who his injectionist was. She was a table #9 and looked to be in her mid thirties. The first thing she said to Colin was that he was not registered. How did he even get to her after all the checks?? He had all kinds of proper paper work! One the first questions she asked Colin was if he was pregnant or breast feeding!! She said that she had to ask that question, I was not asked that question. Colin will be 71 in July and is very much a male!!!!! She asked how he was feeling and if he had allergies. That was it. He certainly felt the injection. He jumped. She told him not to pull away. She certainly did not know how to give an injection – in my opinion. Colin said it hurt. She told him that he had solid muscles 🙄
I asked when my second shot would be and Janice said that she had no idea. Colin was told to come back exactly 16 weeks to the day and to the hour. We had a friend here in the park that was injected a few hours earlier than us at the some place on the same day and was told that he would receive a phone call as to when his next injection would be. Who do we believe? Not to worry I will be doing follow up three months from now. Quite the gong show but at least we have been injected with “something”.
After our shots we were directed to go to a certain area to watch Mr. Bean for 15 minutes, just in case we that we had the one in two million reaction. Really well done. They were even selling coffee, juice, and muffins and other small snacks while you waited.
The exit was through this very special corridor. We were thanked for coming to get out vaccine. A lovely huge heart and even more sanitizer. Well done.
Look closely.
Right on!! The huge heart was filled with toilet paper.
We both both had sore arms by 7PM. We took an ibuprofen and slept fairly well. No problems today at all. Colin’s arm is still slightly sore this evening.
