COVID-19: Dose 1 plus two days
Yesterday I said "I'm not worried" about side effects. Maybe I should have worried a little more? Maybe I should worry a little more about the next dose?
Yesterday I felt pretty good (modulo slamming my left middle finger in the front door on my way out to pick up a prescription for Colleen) up until 9:30 or 10pm, so about 28 hours after the shot, when I started getting some pain around the injection site. Then I started feeling chilled. No fever, though -- 97.1, so a little low if anything. I seem to recall getting low temperatures during viral illnesses back... a long time ago.
Then came the muscle aches, and then the headache. Pretty close to what I remember from some of the times I had the flu. Night-time was pretty miserable; getting out of bed for water, taking care of Colleen, or a bathroom break proved to be a major undertaking. Breathing was complicated by my usual post-nasal drip -- I don't think that was connected to the vaccine after-effects -- but it made the night pretty bad. I was strongly reminded of The Nightmare Song from ‘Iolanthe’ by Gilbert and Sullivan.
I don't think it would have been a good idea to drive today; fortunately I don't have to -- V is taking Colleen to her CAT-scan appointment this afternoon. (There's an amusing comment to be made about a Cheshire Cat getting a CAT scan, but I'm a little low on spoons at the moment.)
The real title of this ‘patter song’ from Iolanthe is: ‘Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest’. Recit: Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest: Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers: Love, nightmare like, lies heavy on my chest, And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers! When you’re lying awake with a dismal headache, And repose is taboo’d by anxiety, I conceive you may use any language you choose To indulge in, without impropriety; For your brain is on fire - the bedclothes conspire - of usual slumber to plunder you: First your counterpane goes, and uncovers your toes, And your sheet slips demurely from under you; Then the blanketing tickles - you feel like mixed pickles- So terribly sharp is the pricking, And you’re hot, and you’re cross, and you tumble and toss Till there’s nothing ‘twixt you and the ticking. Then the bedclothes all all creep to the ground in a heap, And you pick ’em all up in a tangle; Next your pillow resigns and politely declines To remain at its usual angle! Well, you get some repose in the form of a doze, With hot eyeballs and head ever aching, But your slumbering teems with such horrible dreams That you’d very much better be waking; For you dream you are crossing the Channel, And tossing about in a steamer from Harwich - Which is something between a large bathing machine And a very small second class carriage - And you’re giving a treat (penny ice and cold meat) To a party of friends and relations - They’re a ravenous horde - and they all came on board At Sloane Square and South Kensington Stations. And bound on that journey you find your attorney (Who started that morning from Devon;) He’s a bit undersiz’d, and you don’t feel surpris’d When he tells you he’s only eleven. Well, you’re driving like mad with this singular lad (bye-the-bye the ship’s now a four-wheeler,) And you’re playing round games, and he calls you bad names, When you tell him that “ties pay the dealer;” But this you can’t stand, so you throw up your hand, And you find you’re as cold as an icicle; In your shirt and your socks (the black silk with gold clocks,) Crossing Sal’sbury Plain on a bicycle: And he and the crew are on bicycles too - Which they’ve somehow or other invested in - And he’s telling the tars, all the particulars Of a company he’s interested in - It’s a scheme of devices, to get at low prices, All goods from cough mixtures to cables (Which tickled the sailors) by treating retailers, As though they were all vegetables - You get a good spades-man to plant a small trades-man, (First take off his boots with a boot-tree,) And his legs will take root, and his fingers will shoot, And they’ll blossom and bud like a fruit tree - From the green-grocer tree you get grapes and green-pea, Cauliflower, pineapple, and cranberries, While the pastry-cook plant, cherry brandy will grant, Apple puffs, and three-corners, and banburys - The shares are a penny, and ever so many Are taken by Rothschild and Baring, And just as a few are allotted to you, You awake with a shudder despairing - You’re a regular wreck, with a crick in your neck, And no wonder you snore, for your head’s on the floor, And you’ve needles and pins from your soles to your shins, And your flesh is a-creep, for your left leg’s asleep, And you’ve cramp in your toes, and a fly on your nose, And some fluff in your lung, and a feverish tongue, And a thirst that’s intense, and a general sense That you haven’t been sleeping in clover; But the darkness has pass’d And it’s daylight at last, And the night has been long - Ditto, ditto my song - And thank goodness they’re both of them over!
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