I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m not complaining.
On Tuesday, I saw that I had a phone call coming in from my doctor’s office. I couldn’t figure out why they were calling, other than I had had my annual physical two weeks earlier, and maybe there were some new results coming in. I warily answered the phone. It was the head nurse who asked if I’d had my booster shot yet. I couldn’t quite focus on what she was asking – especially since no booster shots have been officially approved yet by the FDA – and so I assumed she meant my second vaccination, the one that gave me full efficacy. I figured that she wanted to be sure I was fully vaccinated for their records, even though I’d told my doctor that at my physical. So, “Yes,” I answered. It turned out, though, that she wasn’t talking about that at all, but actually did mean the booster. I told her no, not yet. “Would you like the booster?” she asked. Well, sure, I said, but it wasn’t eight months since I got my second shot. That’s okay, she answered, studies have different views, some say six months, others eight. And you’re pretty close to eight months, anyway. Well, that was good, except that the FDA hadn’t approved the shot. It turned out that that wasn’t a problem either. The office had gotten a shipment of vaccines, and it was generally considered perfectly safe to do so by most doctors. “Which vaccine did you get?” she wanted to know? The Moderna, I told her, and figured that that would be another hurdle, at least for the time being. Although Moderna had released its study, and the results were excellent, the only vaccine that had submitted its findings to the FDA so far was Pfizer. “We have that,” she said. “Would you like to get the shot?” Yes!!, I said immediately. “Could you come in tomorrow at 12:20?” Yes!!!, I answered again quickly, before she could change her mind and realize it was all a big mistake. But it wasn’t a mistake, and yesterday I went in and got my booster shot of the Moderna vaccine. I asked her again all my questions, since this was so odd to me. And she repeated all her explanations. Doctors think between six and eight months is fine, and I was close to eight. Doctors have seen the Moderna results and are sure it’s absolutely fine. The office got a shipment of the vaccine, and it’s just sitting there. So, they were calling patients who qualified by the various guidelines being discussed and who they thought might be interested. Honestly, I’m still bewildered. I find it totally odd that this came up. I think it’s weird that I didn’t seem to qualify quite yet for any number of reasons. And I’m perfectly fine trusting my doctor on this since I asked all the questions repeatedly, they answered them all upfront and forthright, and most especially because my doctor is great – even to the point of once basically saving my life. (He once noticed some tests results that were perfectly normal, but he didn’t like them because they were higher than the year before. And he was right, and it got dealt with.) So, I’m now triple-vaxxed. As I said, I’m not sure how this happened, but I’m not complaining. It’ll take the same two weeks for full efficacy. (As the nurse said, that's true for all vaccines.) And so far, the only side effect is the same as before, a slight sore arm. The only thing I regret is not asking the nurse if I could have gotten this third vaccine in a little bottle of salad dressing. I'd read Michael Flynn say that that's the conspiracy liberals were doing (really, honest -- here), and since I like salad and have one every night, I figured that if they had a good low-fat blue cheese, it would have been delicious for dinner that night. But then, they're a really good office, so I'm guessing if they had any, they'd have offered it. My guess is that they were probably out. So, I had it as a shot. So be it. It was fine, and I'm thrilled to have gotten it. That said, I do wish other people would at the very least just get their first vaccination. But if not, that wasn't going to keep me from getting my third. Personal choice, and all, y’know. That and I’m not a total idiot.
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