Getting the COVID Vaccination

Today I got vaccinated for COVID 19. The San Francisco Lighthouse facility opened a clinic for the blind and low vision population to get the vaccine each Friday for the month of April. I received the email notice Wednesday, read it Thursday morning and managed to schedule an appointment through the San Francisco COVID hot-line Thursday afternoon for 11:10 AM on Friday April 2nd. Tom drove Jan and I over in the Prius. The roads were clear going out and starting to fill up on the return. Tom parked on the sidewalk at the back door entrance while Jan and I went inside to the clinic. As advertised, a host of volunteers were on hand to make the process easy and efficient. We waited first at the elevators to go up to the tenth floor, then lined up in the corridor for seven people to go before me. Jan commented that the clinic she went to was far more efficient in processing people quickly; yet, this one was much more relaxed. I had her fill out my information sheet to be more efficient than dictating it to a volunteer. There were two tables for administrating the shot, a waiting area and several administrative tables. The shot stung a little in my left arm but otherwise was no different than any other shot. While waiting the 15 minutes afterwards, I observed a mild headache come on and slight fatigue. However, both improved after I doused my head with water in the bathroom afterwards and took my mask off in the car. Heat is hard to adjust to. Meanwhile Jan read her stack of articles. The chances are slim that we will reach immunity to allow for people to stop wearing masks this year. Israel has the highest vaccination rate of all countries. We arrived home at 12:29, just 2 hours and twenty minutes round-trip. It is fortuitous that I received my shot on the day when the number of people vaccinated in the United States reached 100 million. By the end of the day, after an afternoon of increasing aches, I had a sore left arm and am feeling the affects of the shot as flew-like aches and pains. I was still optimistic that tomorrow would be a good day.

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