It seems fitting to mark a historic event by including it here, in this daily blog, with this photo of me showing off my COVID vaccine band-aid.
Yesterday, on 3/29/2021, I got vaccinated against the pandemic. Not something I ever expected to say, but then I suppose that is true for all of us, except the epidemiologists who have been yelling about the inevitability of a pandemic for 40+ years now like Cassandras of the wilderness. Poor dears. I’m sure they feel really bad about being right, though?
I was given the pfizer shot, which is the first of two, and it made my hand a little tingly right afterwards and now, this morning, my arm feels as if I was punched hard there by The Rock (not that he ever would! such a sweetheart). I go back on 4/19 for the second shot.
This does not change anything for me on the practical level. I’m still self-isolating 95% of the time, I still mask up, I still WFH as often as I’m allowed (another rant for another time). But this IS historic, for all of us, even if it is less a precise moment in history than it is a rolling event concurrent with the pandemic itself. Quite frankly am the daughter of a WWII veteran and everything he told me about the Great Depression and the Great War No. 2 never incited a need in me to live through history like this. *sigh*
Fittingly, it was a wet, rainy morning so Keely did not get her walk until after 9 am, and even then just a short one. She’s always so excited to get up and go for a walk until she realizes it’s raining, at which point she huffs and puffs to her bed and flops there, glaring at me. I am not to blame!!!! But she did get a walk eventually, okay?