Jab 2.

[excoriator]

Got mine today.

On being formally asked if I gave my permission for it, I said yes, but added "Hence my presence!" The nurse laughed and said I'd be surprised how often people change their minds at the last minute, and went on to say they all got a few refusal each day. "Why?" I asked. "I think it's the sight of this she said" brandishing the needle with an evil grin! Fortunately I am made of sterner stuff and quelled the urge to cut and run without (I hope) showing it. "Do your worse!" I said. She did. We parted friends.

[aubrey]

I still don't have a date for my second one (Pfizer). It's getting a little bit worrying.

[excoriator]

Why not give your doc. a bell and ask? They may well have cocked it up.

[excoriator]

Why not give your doc. a bell and ask? They may well have cocked it up.

Yes, ring them twice to be sure to be sure!

[jonjel]

Apr 16, 2021 15:34:04 GMT excoriator said:

Got mine today.

On being formally asked if I gave my permission for it, I said yes, but added "Hence my presence!" The nurse laughed and said I'd be surprised how often people change their minds at the last minute, and went on to say they all got a few refusal each day. "Why?" I asked. "I think it's the sight of this she said" brandishing the needle with an evil grin! Fortunately I am made of sterner stuff and quelled the urge to cut and run without (I hope) showing it. "Do your worse!" I said. She did. We parted friends.

I think they are well used to people with a dread of needles. With both mine I ever even saw the needle. Just proffered an arm (I did offer a buttock but that was declined) and I was in and out in I guess a minute.

[excoriator]

Mrs E. gets hers on the 30th - two weeks short of the 12 weeks like me.

I notice first-jab numbers are way down now. I guessed they would be about now. I wonder what those younger folk think about having to wait a bit longer than expected?

[jonjel]

Apr 21, 2021 15:56:07 GMT excoriator said:

Mrs E. gets hers on the 30th - two weeks short of the 12 weeks like me.

I notice first-jab numbers are way down now. I guessed they would be about now. I wonder what those younger folk think about having to wait a bit longer than expected?

I don't know Exco, but we are still busy working with Oxford.

I don't know how you feel and we are of similar age, but personally I feel a lot more secure if that is the right word after having had mine. I felt that way even after the first one.

[excoriator]

I don't feel very different Jonjel. If I get it I get it, the end.

We both had the Pfizer one and suffered little more than a slightly sore arm. My youngest daughter, who works for AZ got given the oxford one because she was working on the vaccine project and was quite under the weather for a day or two. Maybe its luck though. My middle daughter working in teh hospital, got the Pfizer one and was poorly for a day or two after.

[jonjel]

Apr 21, 2021 16:27:25 GMT excoriator said:

I don't feel very different Jonjel. If I get it I get it, the end.

We both had the Pfizer one and suffered little more than a slightly sore arm. My youngest daughter, who works for AZ got given the oxford one because she was working on the vaccine project and was quite under the weather for a day or two. Maybe its luck though. My middle daughter working in teh hospital, got the Pfizer one and was poorly for a day or two after.

You surprise me Exco. Your opening remark is almost being fatalistic. Despite the risks at the moment being quite low I trust you are being cautious. I know people who have had this disease. One aged 68 and it quite good nick died. One of the others I spoke to was ill at Christmas and told me he was terrified, and had never felt quite so ill in his life.

At our age if we get it then I think the prognosis would be pretty grim.

[excoriator]

At our age, Jonjel, the prognosis is certain death and soon. It is only a matter of when, and I don't intend to spend the rest of what time is left to me living in fear. Mrs E and I take it in turns to do the daily shopping (paper and one or two essential groceries usually) and we go for pretty frequent walks. We often stop to chat with passers by but keep a good social distance whilst doing so.

I am part of a group of old farts who worked together for decades and we used to meet monthly in a pub. We now exchange the odd round robin online until normal drinking can be resumed. Some of the more fearful ones seemed to have placed themselves in house arrest, getting everything delivered by being left on the doorstep, and are thoroughly miserable. Others have taken the sort of approach we do, not joining raves or crowded pubs and restaurants, but maintaining minimising risk within reason. They seem a lot happier. So far none of us has caught anything.

Most of my interests are indoor ones, fortunately for me, so I haven't found lockdown making a lot of difference. But I think it's important to maintain contact with acquaintenances. I usually enjoy a little banter with supermarket assistants and the like.

One of the factors to be borne in mind is time. Infection from an infected person is highly probabilistic, and that probability goes up with time. So it's probably safer to have brief contacts, which ours seem to be mainly, than extended visits.

[skylark]

It is said that the vaccinated suffer less severely if they catch covid: given that many people now suffering from long covid got only mild symptoms initially this is not much comfort to me