2nd AZ yesterday. A bit headachy in the afternoon, but fine this morning - however that happened with the first dose and the next few afternoons were like hitting a wall. So I have arranged only boring desk jobs for today and tomorrow. Just in case.
Second Pfizer two days ago. No ill effects, apart from a bit of a sore arm. This meant avoiding sleeping on my left side, thereby causing Mr Puzzler extreme annoyance because of my snoring.
Second Pfizer two days ago. No ill effects, apart from a bit of a sore arm. This meant avoiding sleeping on my left side, thereby causing Mr Puzzler extreme annoyance because of my snoring.
Fascinating. I also have to sleep on my left side because according to Mr Nen if I sleep on my right I snore. I'm left handed so have a valid reason for asking them to put the injection into my right arm.
I had my second Pfizer vaccination on Monday. I've a slightly sore arm, but less so than I did after the first dose. My husband had his first dose a fortnight after me so I'm hoping he gets called up for his shortly.
I had my first AZ shot on Tuesday afternoon. Spent the night with nasty chills, then yesterday drifting in and out of sleep. Feeling significantly better today - well enough to be working from home.
I am due for shot number two next Wednesday. Interesting after trying for three months to get signed up for shots and finally doing so, they are now sending out phone messages from the Sheriff, and Facebook ads, saying please sign up we have a lot of empty slots for shots this week. They are saying about 55 percent of the population in our county has had at least one shot.
I am pleased to hear that the follow-ups they have been doing have shown few "break though" infections/positive tests in people two weeks or more past their second shot. So besides protecting the vaccinated against illness, the vaccinations seem to be protecting against infection itself and therefore spread of the disease.
CNBC: "U.S. health officials have confirmed fewer than 6,000 cases of Covid-19 in fully vaccinated Americans, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said. That represents just 0.007% of the 84 million Americans with full protection against the virus. The CDC chief acknowledged that the number could be an underestimate."
I had my second Pfizer vaccination on Monday. I've a slightly sore arm, but less so than I did after the first dose.
My Pfizer #2 was Wednesday, and so far my experience is same as yours, Sarasa. The nurse who jabbed me was delightful and very skilled (I am a big baby when it comes to needles), and I'm just feeling relieved and grateful.
I am due for my second shot Thurday, thanks to the help of a friend who was able to finally get me an appointment. Today I received an E-mail from the state of California informing me that I need to be patient and soon it would be my turn to get my first shot. Bless their hearts.
A young friend of ours in Seattle got his first Pfizer shot and sat down for the mandatory 15 minutes. Seconds later his wife thought he had died, he collapsed so utterly!
However his mother recalls something similar from his teenage years, possibly his BCG injection, so it may be the jab itself rather than the contents which cause this.
Master S, a year older, got his first Pfizer and felt absolutely poleaxed for a couple of days - there seems no logic to the response.
If he's nervous about jabs he might have fainted from holding his breath. This occasionally happened to my eye casualty patients when I was removing foreign bodies from eyes with a needle. The patient would be so nervous they would faint. I've even seen someone pass out have a leg plaster cast removed.
Second AZ jab passed without any symptoms which couldn't be subsumed under normal for underfit septuagenarian (my late MiL used to say it was a Good Day when nothing much hurt).
A young friend of ours in Seattle got his first Pfizer shot and sat down for the mandatory 15 minutes. Seconds later his wife thought he had died, he collapsed so utterly!
However his mother recalls something similar from his teenage years, possibly his BCG injection, so it may be the jab itself rather than the contents which cause this.
Master S, a year older, got his first Pfizer and felt absolutely poleaxed for a couple of days - there seems no logic to the response.
We were going to Uganda a few years ago. Me, my husband and two sons (18 and 20 years old) went for our yellow fever inoculations at the same time. We were all in the same room with the practice nurse. One son fainted, husband and other son went green and had to sit down.
Thinking about, it none of them had had any medical procedure since childhood vaccinations! Of course, I’d had two babies, two operations and two blood transfusions (severe anaemia) and was well used to being messed about with medically.
Local university sewage study is showing that virus is detected in poop 3 or 4 days before people are symptomatic, with the additional suggestive info that you may shed virus into your poop before you test positive by conventional means. Perhaps they won't show swabs up people's chimneys like they do up noses, something excessively shown on TV news.
Apparently there is now a study, where with the family's consent, morticians at some undertakers are doing Covid swabs on corpses that have died recently at home. One of the local firms are taking part, with the idea of monitoring community spread, especially in the elderly.
Local university sewage study is showing that virus is detected in poop 3 or 4 days before people are symptomatic, with the additional suggestive info that you may shed virus into your poop before you test positive by conventional means. Perhaps they won't show swabs up people's chimneys like they do up noses, something excessively shown on TV news.
Ottawa Public Health has been tracking sewage for this data for several months, with very good results in terms of forecasting increases and decreases in infections. The only problem came with spring breakup, when the increased volume eof water in the rivers slightly diluted the samples.
I think I read somewhere that Orkney Islands Council were doing the same. I understand that the relatively small number of cases made it a good place to do the study.
A young friend of ours in Seattle got his first Pfizer shot and sat down for the mandatory 15 minutes. Seconds later his wife thought he had died, he collapsed so utterly!
However his mother recalls something similar from his teenage years, possibly his BCG injection, so it may be the jab itself rather than the contents which cause this.
He's still dizzy on Tuesday afternoon - from the jab on Saturday - so presumably not the needle...
Younger Son misses the latest age group for the Covid vaccination by 1 week.
Presumably they will be dropping another couple of years pretty soon. Until then he will be the only unvaccinated family member, other than our three youngest grandchildren
I'm getting my second A/Z jab today. My friend has still not had any confirmation either that the local surgery has taken him on to their list; or that he is now in the system for having his vaccination - he is well old enough for it having been available much earlier. Our only possible surgery has a bad reputation.
Meanwhile, I have been asked to take part in a random antibody test by Imperial and Ipsos, which I shall do. Given that I had no reaction to jab 1, I shall be very interested in the results.
Can't he just sign up online? Using the NHS vaccine service? All you need for that is your date of birth and NHS number and to fit the criteria.
My daughter is still a decade off the age being vaccinated, so we have to wait until either the surgery decides she's had too much Prednisolone in the last few weeks, and therefore should be prioritised, or the vaccine starts being offered to her age group. Prednisolone is the steroid meant by the increased vulnerability on the list for those prioritised, but it's use as she was a couple of years ago, not the current short doses.
I'm very bored of shielding, it's preventing us from starting face-to-face Guides meetings again, that and the risks for my fellow Guide leader's husband.
No number available as he wasn't registered before. It's the big problem. (Must have been as a child but that's long past.)
My friend is visiting the U.K. for six months. She’s in Cornwall. She registered with a GP and got a number to register. She also had difficulty signing in, so she went back to the GP and was vaccinated at the surgery, last week.
When I moved back to Scotland after 16 years in Canada, I had no trouble registering with my sister's GP. I have an ancient Health Service card, but I don't know if the number on it would equate to a modern CHI number (and I can't remember if I brought it with me when I went to register or not).
I'd have thought that if your friend had ever been registered with a doctor anywhere in the UK (if he's a Brit he presumably was as a child), they'd be able to trace him.
And he can always call the vaccine helpline on 119 to find out how to get on a list if he doesn't have his NHS number. (Ancient NHS numbers changed. I used to be able to remember mine when it was a combination of letters and numbers. I can't now.)
It begins with your date of birth, and has four digits after that (I only know this through working for the NHS), but I'd need to look up a letter from my GP to find out what my own last four digits are.
Went with MuminElmet for her 2nd jab today. My age group for the vaccine just came up so I can finally try and book mine. Fingers crossed for a painless procedure.
Has he tried booking online? You don't need to know your NHS number for that. I did it without my NHS number, just my personal details like name and date of birth.
If he isn't on that system he really needs to get back to the GP to sort it out.
Getting back to GP is booked for tomorrow, with us, that is, He had a very strong impression when we first rang that they didn't want to add him. It was just luck that I'd told the gas to send stuff here, as everything else went to the old address, so he did have a utility bill in their catchment.
This morning my heart leapt up as I saw a window envelope with NHS on it, but it turned out to be an invitation to me to be in an antibody trial.
I discussed the issue with the covid line when I had my invite for the vaccine, and they just said turn up at the surgery and register and you will get your number....
There is a local message board. It has a long thread of complaints about the practice, whihc is the only one available.
They weren't brilliant with my friend's mother.
Eldest child, aged 16, is now fully vaccinated - the first person in our family to get there. Mrs C and I don't get our second shot until next week. (We had Moderna, but 16-year-olds can only have Pfizer, which has a shorter time between doses.)
I'm not expecting to change my behaviour in the slightest once I'm fully vaccinated. I am, however, looking forward to the general prevalence of vaccines being high enough that it's reasonable to restart certain activities.
I'm not expecting to change my behaviour in the slightest once I'm fully vaccinated. I am, however, looking forward to the general prevalence of vaccines being high enough that it's reasonable to restart certain activities.
This. My second Jab is due in a couple of weeks, but I don't intend to change my behaviour, either. It ain't over yet...
Meanwhile, how is your church coping, as restrictions ease? Our Place is fully functional as far as services are concerned, with the Sunday Mass being livestreamed on Facebook, but we can't yet sing congregationally.
Attendances are not too bad, but we're still missing 2 or 3 young families - though they keep in touch by email etc., so hopefully will return at some point.
Finances are not too good, albeit not disastrous. Giving - by the congregation - has actually increased over the past year much to FatherInCharge's delight. However, other income has gone down, as we have been unable to let the Hall (it's a useful place for children's parties at weekends), and neither have we been able to run any of our customary fund-raising activities. The Hall is also used during the week by a pre-school Nursery, but even they have been closed (or working in a very limited capacity) for, time to time, so rental has been reduced accordingly.
Many other churches, of course, are facing similar (or much worse) problems. A small local Evangelical church has closed down completely, although there is a possibility that another denomination might buy or lease the building, which is a useful asset for community/social outreach work.
Meanwhile, how is your church coping, as restrictions ease? Our Place is fully functional as far as services are concerned, with the Sunday Mass being livestreamed on Facebook, but we can't yet sing congregationally.
We're just about to resume some physical services. We had a couple of test runs late last summer, but then the case rate shot up again, and we put a hold on our plans. We're still doing zoom Morning Prayer, but we'll have one in-person service as well. No singing, no hugging, no hanging around chatting in the building.
We've talked about live-streaming a service, so that people can be spectators, (the zoom format rather forces people to participate, and not everyone wants that) but haven't done more than talk.
Regular giving by our congregation is down a bit (because some people lost work because of Covid, so can't afford to give as much), and like you, most of our other sources of funds have been absent for the last year. But expenses have been down a bit as well, so we're mostly staying afloat.
We're able to keep up with some of the outreach and volunteer work that we do, but some other things have just stopped completely because of lockdown. We used to have lay visitors that would do communion by extension at some of the local old people's homes, for example, but those facilities are all still locked down and not letting random strangers in. We're able to deliver pre-packaged communion with a service sheet, but it's not the same.
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Attendances are not too bad, but we're still missing 2 or 3 young families - though they keep in touch by email etc., so hopefully will return at some point.
Finances are not too good, albeit not disastrous. Giving - by the congregation - has actually increased over the past year much to FatherInCharge's delight. However, other income has gone down, as we have been unable to let the Hall (it's a useful place for children's parties at weekends), and neither have we been able to run any of our customary fund-raising activities. The Hall is also used during the week by a pre-school Nursery, but even they have been closed (or working in a very limited capacity) for, time to time, so rental has been reduced accordingly.
We don't livestream but I record a simple service for Facebook. Live attendances is slowly increasing, we may soon have to introduce booking as we are now nearly Covid-full on Sundays (which means between 40-45 adults + 10 kids/YP).
Finances not too bad at all even though we can't do fundraising, fortunately we derive little income from rentals, our building isn't expensive to maintain and some of our costs have decreased over lockdown.
We run our own Playgroup each weekday morning and it's only closed when the rules have told it to ... so far so good and numbers are good since we signed up to the Government free place system. The staff have done a terrific job and we've slightly upped their wages to cover the extra time spent cleaning.
We're running an outdoor activity day for kids tomorrow, indoor youth club restarts next Friday!
I had my second shot yesterday. My arm is not as sore as the first time. Today is day two and I feel tired and just want to sleep. The dog and hubby however need care. I do not plan to go out and about any more than before really. I will just feel more relaxed about necessary trips for Mr. Image's doctor visits and such as that. I have gotten used to having my groceries delivered and out of convenience not having to unload my car and carry bags up the steps I am not wanting to return to in-store shopping. I like pretending I am rich and famous.
Don't think my workplace thought through the consequences of most of us having been 1st dose vaccinated within the same fortnight in February, whilst we were working from home, (mostly) meaning most of us being 2nd dose vaccinated when the students who were shielding all returned! So, settling students back who haven't been on the premises since last November, whilst all the staff in my group were feeling rough post 2nd vaccine was.... interesting.
Ah well, I got through today in one piece, if a bit of a sore arm and all over achy and am grateful for a Bank Holiday weekend to slob if need be
Today we came across a complete idiot on our way to the woods. A guy on a scooter, adult sized, not apparently powered, freewheeling down the road. The car in front managed to get by him as he veered to avoid uneven surfaces, but I was stuck because of oncoming traffic, for some time. The van behind hooted at one point and the guy looked round, and may have thought it was me. The road cleared, and I got past, but my passenger thought we ought to check he was OK by going round the block. He had been frequently putting something to his mouth, and there was the suspicion that he was on something. So we did that, only to come face to face with him as he rounded a blind corner on our side of the road, glaring at us from beneath his hood as if we were in the wrong. He missed us. We did get an image of him at that point on the dashcam, which, sadly, I had not put on earlier.
Latest age group invited to apply for the vaccine opened this morning and now includes Younger Son. He was on the phone quite quickly, but the earliest appointment he could get was May 25th - two days after they are due for a family visit.
He will be the only unvaccinated adult.
Meanwhile, how is your church coping, as restrictions ease? Our Place is fully functional as far as services are concerned, with the Sunday Mass being livestreamed on Facebook, but we can't yet sing congregationally.
Our Place is doing Sunday services only one morning one with all the usual restrictions; before virus we had two morning ones and an evening one. There's also a service that goes up on YouTube which we always watch. Mr Nen has been once as he's one of the few of the technical team who are able (or willing) to do the projection. I haven't been yet and don't intend to until at least after my second jab.
I am still recording the service for audio release as I have been since March ‘20. Now I am also using that same service minus the hymns in three churches one after the other on a Sunday morning. As a concession to the not singing, each week I pick one of the hymns from the online version and we have “hum a hymn” when I line it out (not supposed to give out the books) and we all hum the tune. In fact this has helped people think about some of the words they sing so it is not all bad. But it is a faff. I also do a Zoom prayer service on a Wednesday evening. 7 more Sundays to go including tomorrow before I demit!
In my church, which is one of a group of five, we restarted live on Easter Sunday with one 10am service of Holy Communion in the largest church/ village with choir to sing the hymns and an anthem. This will be every week for the foreseeable future. This is recorded and goes out online later that day.
There is a zoom Celtic service at 5 pm. Young people’s activity resumed live last Sunday afternoon.
There is a plan to gradually open up the other four churches, but an agreement that the priest shall not be expected to rush around to more than one village on a Sunday morning.
Sunday services at 8 in the courtyard with limited seating, 10AM, inside must call to reserve seat. Asking people to only reserve once-per-month, to share space. Continue online with 10 AM service as well. No singing, social distance, and masks required. I do not plan to attend.
My GP won't give me any medications for sinus infections until I've tried everything else. And everything else includes sniffing salt water*, which usually works, but I leave it until I'm desperate as I hate doing it so much. Part of the reason is that there's not a great blood supply to the sinuses so any medication is going to struggle to access them.
* sniffing a mixture of salt and water up your nose - it ends up down the back of your throat and in your mouth - totally foul, but it does clean out sinuses mechanically.
I have a vaccination appointment! Success! Not close by, but in town so a short bus ride.
So happy for you, I know how frustrated I was feeling when I wanted an appointment for a long time before getting one. May you have an easy time with your follow up.
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Ahem.
Seriously, though, it was a problem, and eventually I underwent a minor op to remove my overly-vibrating palatine uvula...
Would I do it again? You bet!
CNBC: "U.S. health officials have confirmed fewer than 6,000 cases of Covid-19 in fully vaccinated Americans, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky said. That represents just 0.007% of the 84 million Americans with full protection against the virus. The CDC chief acknowledged that the number could be an underestimate."
However his mother recalls something similar from his teenage years, possibly his BCG injection, so it may be the jab itself rather than the contents which cause this.
Master S, a year older, got his first Pfizer and felt absolutely poleaxed for a couple of days - there seems no logic to the response.
We were going to Uganda a few years ago. Me, my husband and two sons (18 and 20 years old) went for our yellow fever inoculations at the same time. We were all in the same room with the practice nurse. One son fainted, husband and other son went green and had to sit down.
Thinking about, it none of them had had any medical procedure since childhood vaccinations! Of course, I’d had two babies, two operations and two blood transfusions (severe anaemia) and was well used to being messed about with medically.
At least they're unlikely to televise it.
Ottawa Public Health has been tracking sewage for this data for several months, with very good results in terms of forecasting increases and decreases in infections. The only problem came with spring breakup, when the increased volume eof water in the rivers slightly diluted the samples.
He's still dizzy on Tuesday afternoon - from the jab on Saturday - so presumably not the needle...
Presumably they will be dropping another couple of years pretty soon. Until then he will be the only unvaccinated family member, other than our three youngest grandchildren
Meanwhile, I have been asked to take part in a random antibody test by Imperial and Ipsos, which I shall do. Given that I had no reaction to jab 1, I shall be very interested in the results.
My daughter is still a decade off the age being vaccinated, so we have to wait until either the surgery decides she's had too much Prednisolone in the last few weeks, and therefore should be prioritised, or the vaccine starts being offered to her age group. Prednisolone is the steroid meant by the increased vulnerability on the list for those prioritised, but it's use as she was a couple of years ago, not the current short doses.
I'm very bored of shielding, it's preventing us from starting face-to-face Guides meetings again, that and the risks for my fellow Guide leader's husband.
My friend is visiting the U.K. for six months. She’s in Cornwall. She registered with a GP and got a number to register. She also had difficulty signing in, so she went back to the GP and was vaccinated at the surgery, last week.
I’d get back to the GP asap.
I'd have thought that if your friend had ever been registered with a doctor anywhere in the UK (if he's a Brit he presumably was as a child), they'd be able to trace him.
If he isn't on that system he really needs to get back to the GP to sort it out.
This morning my heart leapt up as I saw a window envelope with NHS on it, but it turned out to be an invitation to me to be in an antibody trial.
I discussed the issue with the covid line when I had my invite for the vaccine, and they just said turn up at the surgery and register and you will get your number....
There is a local message board. It has a long thread of complaints about the practice, whihc is the only one available.
They weren't brilliant with my friend's mother.
I'm not expecting to change my behaviour in the slightest once I'm fully vaccinated. I am, however, looking forward to the general prevalence of vaccines being high enough that it's reasonable to restart certain activities.
This. My second Jab is due in a couple of weeks, but I don't intend to change my behaviour, either. It ain't over yet...
Meanwhile, how is your church coping, as restrictions ease? Our Place is fully functional as far as services are concerned, with the Sunday Mass being livestreamed on Facebook, but we can't yet sing congregationally.
Attendances are not too bad, but we're still missing 2 or 3 young families - though they keep in touch by email etc., so hopefully will return at some point.
Finances are not too good, albeit not disastrous. Giving - by the congregation - has actually increased over the past year
Many other churches, of course, are facing similar (or much worse) problems. A small local Evangelical church has closed down completely, although there is a possibility that another denomination might buy or lease the building, which is a useful asset for community/social outreach work.
We're just about to resume some physical services. We had a couple of test runs late last summer, but then the case rate shot up again, and we put a hold on our plans. We're still doing zoom Morning Prayer, but we'll have one in-person service as well. No singing, no hugging, no hanging around chatting in the building.
We've talked about live-streaming a service, so that people can be spectators, (the zoom format rather forces people to participate, and not everyone wants that) but haven't done more than talk.
Regular giving by our congregation is down a bit (because some people lost work because of Covid, so can't afford to give as much), and like you, most of our other sources of funds have been absent for the last year. But expenses have been down a bit as well, so we're mostly staying afloat.
We're able to keep up with some of the outreach and volunteer work that we do, but some other things have just stopped completely because of lockdown. We used to have lay visitors that would do communion by extension at some of the local old people's homes, for example, but those facilities are all still locked down and not letting random strangers in. We're able to deliver pre-packaged communion with a service sheet, but it's not the same.
Finances not too bad at all even though we can't do fundraising, fortunately we derive little income from rentals, our building isn't expensive to maintain and some of our costs have decreased over lockdown.
We run our own Playgroup each weekday morning and it's only closed when the rules have told it to ... so far so good and numbers are good since we signed up to the Government free place system. The staff have done a terrific job and we've slightly upped their wages to cover the extra time spent cleaning.
We're running an outdoor activity day for kids tomorrow, indoor youth club restarts next Friday!
Ah well, I got through today in one piece, if a bit of a sore arm and all over achy and am grateful for a Bank Holiday weekend to slob if need be
He will be the only unvaccinated adult.
There is a zoom Celtic service at 5 pm. Young people’s activity resumed live last Sunday afternoon.
There is a plan to gradually open up the other four churches, but an agreement that the priest shall not be expected to rush around to more than one village on a Sunday morning.
* sniffing a mixture of salt and water up your nose - it ends up down the back of your throat and in your mouth - totally foul, but it does clean out sinuses mechanically.
Sorry about your son @Lamb Chopped , that's really frustrating.
So happy for you, I know how frustrated I was feeling when I wanted an appointment for a long time before getting one. May you have an easy time with your follow up.
The days pass slowly but the weeks go by quickly, somehow. 🙂