Bulk buy vaccines?
It was exactly one year ago today that I realized I was sick. I hadn't felt well earlier in the week, though I more felt strange than ill. I'd never experienced a throat that felt like a cotton ball was shoved down it, for instance. I didn't have a sore throat, but scratchy seemed to fit the bill. I woke up that Thursday morning and just felt like I'd been hit by a truck. I trudged into work to tie up my loose ends, then didn't go back until the beginning of May. What a wild time.
Exactly one year later, I woke up to the sound of a helicopter flying overhead. Today's the day the Kane County vaccine hub opened up at our old Sam's Club. When I went to the website the other day, our street actually showed up on the map showing its location; that's how close we are. My parents get their second shot next Friday and got redirected there; their first ones happened at ECC. This is far more convenient.
The website is KaneVax.org if you're in Kane County. Looks like they have the Pfizer and Moderna shots available at this time. I'm kind of hoping for the Johnson & Johnson one just so it's one-and-done, you know? Especially if I've already likely had it twice. Do I really need two shots? But you take what you can get, and having a vaccine hub be so close is really amazing. Now the trick is to figure out how soon I can get in. I might actually be part of the 1C group, so I'd be next in line. I should probably sign up on the website so I can be alerted as to when it's actually time to get an appointment. And, even more exciting, I saw a story the other day of someone with Long Covid whose symptoms lessened upon getting a vaccine. That would be nice. I'd like my sense of smell and taste to return to normal, you know?
I think my taste might be affected, too. When I opened up my new container of gummy vitamins around the holidays, I kept thinking, man, was this shipped with a bunch of perfume? Usually they just taste mildly fruity to me, but this last container has been sort of floral, like it was made with rose water. Getting to where they were all concentrated at the bottom almost made them unpalatable. I thought to sort of shake the bottle to spread them out a bit and that helped. It wasn't until I learned about parosmia that it dawned on me, oh, this might be related. And then for lunch today, I had a Cosmic Crisp apple that dad had picked out at the grocery store for me when I didn't go shopping with him this week. It had this faint, oddly bitter taste to it that may have been more me and not the apple, but short of having someone else take a bite, I have no way of telling. That's kind of annoying.
Exactly one year later, I woke up to the sound of a helicopter flying overhead. Today's the day the Kane County vaccine hub opened up at our old Sam's Club. When I went to the website the other day, our street actually showed up on the map showing its location; that's how close we are. My parents get their second shot next Friday and got redirected there; their first ones happened at ECC. This is far more convenient.
The website is KaneVax.org if you're in Kane County. Looks like they have the Pfizer and Moderna shots available at this time. I'm kind of hoping for the Johnson & Johnson one just so it's one-and-done, you know? Especially if I've already likely had it twice. Do I really need two shots? But you take what you can get, and having a vaccine hub be so close is really amazing. Now the trick is to figure out how soon I can get in. I might actually be part of the 1C group, so I'd be next in line. I should probably sign up on the website so I can be alerted as to when it's actually time to get an appointment. And, even more exciting, I saw a story the other day of someone with Long Covid whose symptoms lessened upon getting a vaccine. That would be nice. I'd like my sense of smell and taste to return to normal, you know?
I think my taste might be affected, too. When I opened up my new container of gummy vitamins around the holidays, I kept thinking, man, was this shipped with a bunch of perfume? Usually they just taste mildly fruity to me, but this last container has been sort of floral, like it was made with rose water. Getting to where they were all concentrated at the bottom almost made them unpalatable. I thought to sort of shake the bottle to spread them out a bit and that helped. It wasn't until I learned about parosmia that it dawned on me, oh, this might be related. And then for lunch today, I had a Cosmic Crisp apple that dad had picked out at the grocery store for me when I didn't go shopping with him this week. It had this faint, oddly bitter taste to it that may have been more me and not the apple, but short of having someone else take a bite, I have no way of telling. That's kind of annoying.