Today Hawk and I took a third Covid-19 test each. I'm happy to say we are both Covid negative now.

This "all clear" signal comes 12 days after I first started experiencing symptoms and 9 days later for Hawk. It took me a bit longer to get clear than her because my first Covid test was a negative one- presumably a false negative. Based on that ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got my pneumococcal shot - the vaccine against pneumonia. I'm at T+20 hours now so maybe it's a little premature to say but my side effects from the shot have been mild to nonexistent. I've got a dull ache in the upper arm where the shot was administered; that's it ( Read more... )

Yesterday I got a flu shot and a Covid booster at noon. Thankfully my side effects are mild this time around ( Read more... )

Today I got my flu & Covid-19 booster shots. I took one in each arm. I'd have also gotten the pneumococcal and RSV vaccines but I only have two arms, not four. 😅 I'll get those shots in another few weeks.


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Have I dodged Covid yet again? It's hard to prove a negative but consider the famous Sherlock Holmes story of the dog that didn't bark in the night. I did not get sick last week. How is that like the case of the dog that didn't bark? Well, last week a lot of my colleagues who attended a trade show the week before were sick. They'd caught some kind ( Read more... )

Since getting my Covid booster and flu shot yesterday I've been feeling side effects. In the past I started feel achy 24-28 hours after the shots, so I figured I'd feel crummy this evening on through midday tomorrow. Nope! This time I got the side effects sooner. They kicked in around the 12 hour mark this time ( Read more... )

I got my vaccine booster shots today, both the recently formulated Covid booster and the flu shot.

Hawk got hers last weekend. I planned to get mine last weekend but CVS screwed around with canceling our appointments. Hawk was able to rebook hers to the same day, but by the time they canceled mine all the appointments for last weekend anywhere ( Read more... )

We've had an easy weekend around home. Again. It's now our fourth in a row!

When we stayed home last weekend I wondered if I'd be itching to go somewhere this weekend. The answer turned out to be No- and for the same reason I wasn't antsy last weekend, either. I was/am glad to relax after a busy workweek ( Read more... )

I want to get my Covid booster shot. It's been a year, and the new formulation protects better against some of the newer strains. And I can get a flu shot at the same time. Yay, right? Except last week I scheduled these shots for next week Friday at CVS, and today CVS emailed me canceling my appointment ( Read more... )

Last week I complained that it's not really clear what's going on with Covid right now. Well, while meaningful, comprehensive measures of disease activity and risk are still unavailable ("unavailable" meaning deliberately defunded, removed, and/or barred by government hijacked by propaganda peddlers and conspiracy theorists at multiple levels) we ( Read more... )