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  • I am, I'm allergic to life and so am contraindicated for the Pfizer. I still want the damn thing done.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    I get the impression that the Oxford vaccine is used in the gp surgeries and in care homes etc, with the Pfizer kept for the larger centres. But that might just be the case in my area, of course. Hope you get the one you want.
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    Need, rather.
  • The Pfizer one will only be used in centres where they can use up large quantities in one go due to its storage requirements, so more likely in larger centres. I wouldn’t be surprised if it is used at my GPs though as it is very near the hospital and a main vaccine hub.

    A productive day yesterday, I completed and submitted the assignment and updated all my professional development stuff. So the pressure is off a little for a few weeks.
    Today I have Zoom yoga class, followed by Zoom coffee. The ladies are all in their 60s and have been jabbed so I guess they are hoping to be able to meet together again when indoor gyms are allowed. I’m 51 and I wouldn’t be surprised if I get called up in March, as things seem to be going quickly here.
    This afternoon I need to phone a student then mark a couple of essays.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    Miffy wrote: »
    I get the impression that the Oxford vaccine is used in the gp surgeries and in care homes etc, with the Pfizer kept for the larger centres. But that might just be the case in my area, of course. Hope you get the one you want.
    I think that is correct. It is the Pfizer vaccine which has to be kept at very low temperatures requiring specialist equipment.
  • My husband had his vaccination three weeks ago and I had mine two days ago (age difference)
    We both had them done at the same centre but he was given one type and I was given the other. Make of that what you will!
  • PuzzlerPuzzler Shipmate
    Depends on their supplies. My daughter volunteers at a centre. They had to switch over during the day as supplies of one ran out. Some people complained they couldn’t have the one they wanted, but you don’t get to choose. They made a fuss and were turned away. Take it or leave it. They will get the chance again in due course.
    I think because of the switch over my daughter had the chance to be vaccinated herself, even though she is only 49. She was quite poorly for about 30 hours afterwards.
  • I was vaccinated at a centre which was using both makes: it seemed the older people were getting Pfizer-BioNtech and younger Astra-Zeneca.
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    I’m allergic to melon, wasp and bee stings and pollen. I carry an epipen. I’ve read all the bumpf and I’m fine to have either vaccine.

    Roll on Wednesday.
  • I was vaccinated at a centre which was using both makes: it seemed the older people were getting Pfizer-BioNtech and younger Astra-Zeneca.

    Ha! My Jab The First today was Astra-Zeneca...I don't really think I'd call myself *younger people* (I'm 70 in August), but maybe I am, given the number of people older than me that are still hale and hearty (and a lot fitter than me, too, many of them)!
  • MiffyMiffy Shipmate
    I was vaccinated at a centre which was using both makes: it seemed the older people were getting Pfizer-BioNtech and younger Astra-Zeneca.

    Ha! My Jab The First today was Astra-Zeneca...I don't really think I'd call myself *younger people* (I'm 70 in August), but maybe I am, given the number of people older than me that are still hale and hearty (and a lot fitter than me, too, many of them)!
    Well- if I end up being given the Astra Zeneca, I shall feel flattered to still be regarded as a Young Thing.

  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    I think The Organist's theory is probably right - the larger centres are more likely to be able to store (and use up) the Pfizer one.

    If my workplace had been using AZ I probably wouldn't have got it, as they wouldn't have needed to use it up.
  • Going by the centre where I volunteer, the vaccine is allocated centrally depending on what is available, and those who need a particular type are allocated to that otherwise it’s pretty random. The only immediate difference is that with the Pfizer one everyone needs to stay around for 15 mins in case they have an adverse reaction (no-one has so far in this centre) and with the Astra Zeneca one it’s only drivers who have to hang around.
  • Work done, including a batch of marking, so I get the weekend off.

    This evening we decided to sample the delights of the new posh Asian fusion restaurant in the village, which is offering pre-ordered set meals for 2 people which you collect and heat at home.
    We had:
    Sun-dried tomato sourdough with whipped Guernsey butter
    Crab, prawn and avocado cocktail
    Rack of lamb with pistachio crust, rice salad and a lovely rich gravy
    Dark chocolate fondant with coffee creme anglaise, cream and chopped pistachios
    Mini lemon meringues (with coffee)

    With a nice Rioja. It was lovely and we can't wait for them to open properly.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Heavenlyannie, that sounds utterly ... heavenly!

    I've just made (and am in the process of eating) pasta with salmon, crème fraîche and green things (broccoli, peas and green beans), wasshed down with a glass of Chilean SB, and it's rather good - I think I'll do it again.
  • HuiaHuia Shipmate
    I have seen an article that says the Pfizer now only needs to be stored in a fridge, is that inaccurate?
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    It's certainly not what the doctor who did mine said. Obviously they have to defrost it - you couldn't go around sticking things at minus-whatever-degrees into people, but once it's been thawed, it can't be re-frozen.
  • BroJamesBroJames Purgatory Host, 8th Day Host
    It has to be stored in a fridge once unfrozen, but that can only be for a fairly short time.
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Captain Pyjamas is three years old today. He is very chuffed with his new toy hoover - he loves the cleaning.

    I was quite proud of my dog shaped birthday cake.
  • SarasaSarasa Shipmate
    Happy birthday Captain Pyjamas. A great age, one that I very much enjoyed with my son thirtyish years ago. My son loved toy hoovers too, it didn’t translate into a love of helping with housework though.
  • Yes, Happy Birthday, Captain P!
    :wink:
  • Yay! Happy birthday (and hoovering) Captain PJ!
  • (Belated) Happy Birthday Captain Pyjamas 🎂
  • DooneDoone Shipmate
    Happy Birthday Captain Pyjamas 🎂🐶!
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Happy birthday, Captain PJs! If you'd like to come and do my hoovering, you'd be very welcome ... :mrgreen:
    I'm having my usual Saturday lie-in, interspersed with bread-making: I set the machine going a wee while ago, and it should be ready to take out shortly. Once it's doing its second rise, I'll go and get showered and dressed, by which time it'll be ready for the oven.

    Then after brunch, an Expotition to Sainsbury's - I need heavy things like flour, rice and WINE.
  • Happy Birthday to Captain Pyjamas, hope he had a wonderful day.

    That means it was 3 years ago that we were in the throes of the Beast from the East and it's within a couple of days from three years since this board started being used rather than Ye Olde Shippe™
  • My day began early - the cat decided that as the sun was up so should I be. It’s going to be a long summer.

    But it’s meant that I got my Captain Tom Victoria Sandwich baked (ready for filling when cooled) and a few other odds and ends done.

    So I have plenty of time to deliver slices of said cake and collect a new television - yesterday evening mine went off into a world of its own, and an internet search shows it’s not fixable by someone without a sonic screwdriver.
  • Just had our jabs. I embarrassed myself by very nearly fainting after mine, and again upon returning home (for some reason I have a phobia about injections, though the last two - blood test and flu jab - have been fine).
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    Poor you - hope you feel better soon!
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    Happy Birthday Captain Pyjamas! 🎁 🎂

    Hope you are OK @Baptist Trainfan - you are not alone, My husband and two sons all go green and faint when vaccinated. They don’t worry before hand but at the time it gets them for some reason.

    I have a new swiffer mop! I dry swiffer round about four times a day (dog hair). Now I’ve got another mop for proper wet mopping purposes. Exciting eh?
  • Let the thrills commence! And thanks.
  • HeavenlyannieHeavenlyannie Shipmate
    edited February 27
    Poor you, BF. Take it easy.
    When I was a casualty eye nurse nearly all my fainters were men and often it was the big hefty builders. I’ve also seen someone faint having a plaster cast removed from their leg; no needles involved. it’s very common. (I once caught a junior nurse who fainted while watching minor surgery, I’ve seen a surgeon catch someone during surgery!)

    I’ve had a lovely walk by the lake this morning, weeded two flower beds and fed the birds.
  • Happy Birthday, Captain P I can't believe you are three!

    I once had something for my migraines, which had to be injected. As it was the first time I had used it, I asked an ex-nurse who worked in the Clinic with me t give me the first jab. So we hied ourselves off to the Ladies Cloakroom at said Clinic, she put the needle in me and I fainted clean away among all the coats etc.!! Poor nurse was scared I'd sue her or something, but we conferred, decided it was not an industrial accident that needed to be reported, and we went back to our respective desks!
  • MooMoo Kerygmania Host
    In the area of my doctor's office where they give injections, there is a large sign which says: IF YOU HAVE EVER FAINTED AFTER AN INJECTION PLEASE LET US KNOW
  • Before the event, rather than after it, one assumes...
  • BoogieBoogie Shipmate
    One of my sons who faints is a nurse. 🙂
  • JapesJapes Shipmate
    I have only ever fainted once. During Choral Evensong. No one really noticed something wasn't quite right until the rest of the choir stood up from the communal kneelers at the choir stalls at the end of the intercessions and I promptly but gently keeled over to the consternation of the verger and Canon-in Residence as they were processing back to the Canon's stall..,

    A Very Happy Birthday to Captain Pyjamas!
  • I once fainted while taking a funeral. I was pregnant (but not really showing a bump yet) with child number 1 at the time. The consternation in the crematorium was acute! I remember that one of the sons of the deceased who came out to the ante room where I had been taken went back in and announced that it was OK, the minister was just having a baby!!

    The next week I went to pay a follow-up call on the widow, and apologised. She asked if I was all right and I assured her I was. The she said, “Well, hen, I was thinking, Jimmy aye liked it when things went wrang at a funeral. He’d have been fair awa wi’ himsel at his ain.”
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    Much excitement in the rouge household last night when our oven exploded :astonished:

    It has one of those superheated self-cleaning options, so last night we put it on, and then sat down on the sofa to watch Netflix.

    About an hour later, there was a loud bang, and upon arrival in the kitchen, I found the innermost pane of the door shattered into a thousand pieces. Presumably said pane was defective and failed to withstand the heat.

    The good news is that it's still under guarantee, so we can get it repaired or replaced for free. Someone's coming in the week to assess the damage.

    All rather alarming, though.
  • Indeed - but have you alternative cooking facilities whilst you wait for the assessor?
    :open_mouth:
  • la vie en rougela vie en rouge Circus Host, 8th Day Host
    The hob is independent of the oven and still works. We won't starve in the meantime.
  • Good! I'm not used to these new-fangled modern ovens and things...I still cook on coal...
  • Well, not directly.
  • Japes wrote: »
    I have only ever fainted once. During Choral Evensong. No one really noticed something wasn't quite right until the rest of the choir stood up from the communal kneelers at the choir stalls at the end of the intercessions and I promptly but gently keeled over to the consternation of the verger and Canon-in Residence as they were processing back to the Canon's stall..,

    A Very Happy Birthday to Captain Pyjamas!

    Famously (i.e. others in church remember it) my daughter fainted in church while I was leading Stations of the Cross. We had reached the Crucifixion and my script said something like,

    '"And they crucified him". Just a few short words, that don't convey the reality of what happened. Nails through flesh, the crack of bone, the blood...'

    Cue teenage daughter sliding to the floor. She was caught before hitting it and was fine afterwards. She did blame me for being 'over-dramatic' in my reading!
  • SarasaSarasa Shipmate
    Exploding ovens sound a bit scary @la vie en rouge Thank goodness you weren't in the kitchen at the time.
    I've only fainted once. I staggered over to my husband who was unloading the dishwasher and told him I felt weird. Next thing I knew I was flat out on the floor with him looking at me with a concerned look on his face. He decided when there was choice between catching me and dropping the cups he was holding, he'd hang on to the cups. I was fine, though I bashed my ankle against the opened dishwasher door.
    Husband made some rather nice hummus today to go with the remaining Turkish flatbread from our dinners on Wednesday and Thursday. The chickpeas that didn't get whizzed into hummus are being turned into a curry tonight.
  • My Old Mum once fainted whilst kneeling at the communion rail, and about to receive the chalice. The Most Precious Blood was spilled all over the chancel floor (tiled, fortunately), and the Curate's surplice...
    :flushed:

    This was a snake-belly Low Church 1662 BCP parish, so the Curate simply consecrated an additional amount of wine, leaving the clearing-up of the mess until after the service.

    The Vicar and I, meanwhile, took care of Mum, who was OK. She had, as usual, had only a cup of tea before coming to church at 8am on a cold winter's morning, and really should have had something to eat. IIRC, My Old Dad had died earlier that year, and Mum wasn't actually looking after herself as well as she said she was.
  • Baptist TrainfanBaptist Trainfan Shipmate
    edited February 27
    She had, as usual, had only a cup of tea before coming to church at 8am on a cold winter's morning, and really should have had something to eat.
    I had that problem with early Communion when I was at University. And I hadn't even had a "cuppa" - that came afterwards.

    Now for the Rugby ...
  • Happy Birthday to Captain P - was it really 3 years ago? Time flies...

    I managed to get on to a list for left-over vaccine on Monday last, and was duly jabbed with the Astra-Zeneca confection. I was determined I wasn't going to have any side-effects, but spent most of Tuesday shivering under a big blanket with the fire on....and sleeping the day away. At least being asleep meant I wasn't aware of the headache, which I still had on Wednesday when I woke up. And then, in between getting out of bed and getting into the shower, the headache went. It was as immediate as that.
    I have also managed to book my next jab in May which I did on line, and I have scheduled a sofa day for the day after, just in case.

    We are having steak tonight, which I will probably have very rare, along with a jacket potato plus mushrooms, onions and peas.
  • PigletPiglet All Saints Host, Circus Host
    edited February 27
    My only proper faint was while being fitted for my wedding dress. My mum, who was an excellent seamstress, was making the dress; it was at the stage of just being a top half, which she had made rather too big. I was standing very still while she and my sister were doing things with pins, and suddenly I felt a bit odd.

    I didn't quite get the words "I'm feeling a bit odd" out before collapsing in a heap at their feet, and the next thing I knew, my dad (who was sitting nearby reading the paper) was helping me into a chair and calling for sweet tea.

    It never happened again, but Mum spent the remainder of my engagement worrying that I'd keel over at the altar!
    I had a nice little jaunt out to Sainz Breeze (although a very long wait for the bus coming back). Why did nobody remind me that I needed yoghurt and garlic*?

    * I've probably got enough garlic to do until I can get some more, but I'm right out of yoghurt, and I can't be bothered to walk down to Tessie's now - it'll have to wait until tomorrow.

    Supper chez Piglet is going to be grazing: some of the bread I made this morning, cheese, olives and tomatoes, and a glass of WINE.
  • FirenzeFirenze Shipmate, Host Emeritus
    I was about eight I think: it was a weekend morning so I was in the back scullery making myself a breakfast of beetroot sandwich when I felt a headache, then the proverbial red mist, and I'm lying on the floor with my father storming in because he thought the crash was me climbing up to snaffle from the biscuit tin.

    When I stopped crying (combination fright and sense of injustice) and was asked what I wanted, I weakly requested my beetroot sandwich.

    But I couldn't stretch it to getting a day off school.

    I haven't fainted since.
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