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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2021-06-23 09:06 pm
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The Day After

I'm going to say today's aches and pains are due to my covid shot because otherwise I would despair. I'd gladly have spent the whole day on the sofa but instead went out in the back yard for far too long to cut down weeds and snip the vines that have overgrown the path from the garage. Garden waste goes out tonight and I already have a binfull from the front hedge. Equally, month's end approaches and my garage tenant will be coming up the path. Best not to trip him as he does so.

But I'm counting that as my exercise for the day and leaving my bike strictly alone. And since Robaxacet does nothing for the screaming lower back, I might even indulge in a precious half ativan to ensure at least less painful rest. (Slept badly last night: had the window fan on to bring in the precious coolness, put my terrycloth sheet under me because the cotton wasn't warm enough, heated three not two beanbags, and froze. Again, possibly shot fallout, possibly not.)

What I wanted was to order in some alcohol but the intermittent mild mhh not quite dizziness not quite malaise suggested this would be a bad idea. Alcohol delivery comes tomorrow when with luck I won't need it.

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2021-06-24 05:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Hopefully you won't need it. I had lots of chills the night after my second shot as well as a lot of muscle aches and pains and the pins and needles on my lower back that I often associate with fevers. It was a very odd day or two...

I hope you recover easily sooner rather than later.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2021-06-24 09:01 pm (UTC)(link)
All seems fine now. Just a bit of a sore arm, and nothing like as bad as the first shot. One of the benefits of age, evidently.

[identity profile] liralen.livejournal.com 2021-06-26 04:29 am (UTC)(link)
Excellent. I'm glad!

[identity profile] mbwun.livejournal.com 2021-06-26 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
Especially with all being fine now I'd bet on the COVID shot.

We had a great (terrible) idea back in January when our pharmacy got its first batch of shots. Let's all get our shot ASAP... dose 1 was fine arm hurts and we moved on. Dose 2 we had an entire staff feeling like they got hit by a small bus.

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2021-06-26 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh dear. Oh dear dear dear. Such a good idea in theory...