Amen. When I was in for my transplant, getting daily bags of platelets, I was very thankful for all those that sit through the hour of apheresis to donate.
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My wife got her first shot on Wednesday. While I was standing in line with her I asked if they had a spare and the young lady said “let me check”.
She came back in a couple of minutes and said “yes we have a couple of no shows today”. She took my info, gave the shot and scheduled the second one. Sometimes it doesn’t hurt to force a little luck in your direction. And yes the relief is palpable. 
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My wife and I received the first shot of the Moderna vaccine yesterday. I was surprised how few people were there to get the vaccine. There were more workers than people being vaccinated.
I have done it many times. It is an amazing process.
It is always a bit eerie when they return the remaining chilled blood back.
Indeed. Ironically in Iraq when I went and did it (can never donate too much plasma in a war zone) it was the most relaxing part of my day. A nice cool storage container building that was quiet enough to read. Good memories.
An understandable vantage point. As a civilian I would never thought of it this way, but this makes perfect sense on all points.
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Really happy for you, @Baldy. Luck is as much putting yourself in the right place as anything natural. Moderna shot 2 laid me out hard for a day, but it beats being intubated.
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I can’t predict how you’ll like your second shot, but I know you’ll love the M700s and SGCD!
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A close friend of mine had a similar reaction to the second Moderna shot. Mine’s Pfizer, so maybe I’ll have better luck. The first wasn’t anything more than a very sore arm and a low-grade headache by bedtime, gone by morning. And my wife’s had both of her Pfizer shots and only experienced a little soreness.
Regardless of the severity, I say it’s a small price to pay for the personal protection it provides and for allowing me to do my small part in the push toward herd immunity.
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Thanks Mike.
Yes. It takes a big load off and feels like we are heading for a little normalcy.
I was more worried about my wife than me as she has many of the “comorbidities” that are life threatening when the virus is introduced.
I had some serious aches yesterday but mostly back to normal aches today. She had no after effects at all.
We both got the Moderna shot.
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I was telling someone at the clinic that 55-60 years ago we were all little kids in line for the Polio and other vaccines that were being used at the time. Now we are all in line again doing the same thing 55-60 years later. Miracles of modern medicine.
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Thanks. 1st was painless.
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