Second Dose: The COVID-19 Vaccine (Pfizer)

Early Thursday morning we “hopped out the car at Inova, with our masks and our cards again, welcomed to the land of getting vaxxed, woo, I’m gonna get pricked again”…

The three of us, Liz, Victoria, and LJ, were the first group to be vaccinated at the center, and now the first group to get our second dose of the Pfizer-Biontec COVID-19 vaccine.

We planned ahead, hearing that most people had about 8-10 hours from their prick until any “the vaccine is working” symptoms started, so we all agreed that we’d rather go to bed not feeling well, after a morning vaccination, vs. waiting until the afternoon and waking up the next morning not feeling well.

Again - Inova knocked it out of the park with the logistics of everything! We waited only a very short time outside, but once we were inside, we walked right up to get our shots.

One change between the first shot and the second is that we only had to wait on site for 10 minutes.

Symptoms:

Immediately we were all feeling great. It was about 4 hours later that all three of us started to notice that we were feeling some fatigue that continued to build throughout the end of the day.

Victoria reported that she had chills that night after work and then was achy and warm the next day. Spiking a fever of 101 on Friday evening.

LJ reported some aches and fatigue, but it didn’t stop her from running 4 miles the evening of the shot.

Liz reported feeling heavy and exhausted on Thursday evening and into Friday morning.

Strangely, all three noted that the arm pain and headache was worse with the first dose.

Sounds boring, right?

Yep.

After all the reports we were hearing that people were feeling really crummy after the second dose (and yes, Victoria got the worst of it), we were all pretty worried, but all in all, it really hasn’t been that bad!

Common Ground Impact Update:

As we have mentioned in several places, the Honeybees teachers and Miss Mimi will be getting their second doses on Friday February 12th and thus, that room will be closed this Friday.

We are still waiting for the County to open up our scheduling for the rest of our staff for their second doses, but we anticipate getting them in on February 18th or 19th, thus necessitating a closure of the rest of our classrooms on Friday, February 19th. We will update you as soon as those plans are confirmed!

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