I meant to post this before my last few entries but alas my brain has been a pile of goo as of late. ANYWAY. I’m happy to announce that due to the wonderful efforts of a good many people I finally qualified for and received my first dose of Covid vaccine! And I’ve decided to document the experiance here for prosperity in the hopes we may all return to “the new normal” soon.

It was quite a process. I live with my parents who both qualified for different phases of the vaccination roll out while I patiently waited for my age group to come up. I have a lot of other health issues but none of them were on the official list of risky conditions so I patiently waited, biting my nails, until they started vaccinating fully healthy people of my age group. I made sure to log on at midnight the first day I knew I’d qualify. From here it was easy to make an appointment at a Mass Vaccination Event in Keene the next week.

It reminded me a lot of going to a drive-in movie as it was done all in our cars. After making an appointment we showed up at what seemed to be part of a collage campus (a baseball field?) In the middle of nowhere. We lined up at the gates as the national guard checked us in where we were directed where to park in a big dirt field. I ended up directly in front of their medical trailer so I got to see volunteers popping in and out with supplies.

Previously my mother had attended the same event a week before and waited an hour and a half but I think by the time I got there everyone had their jobs down pact and it was a well operated machine. I waited for sixteen minutes before there was a tap at my window asking if I’d been tended to yet. No ma’am.

The shot was quick and painless and the staff administering them were enthusiastic and cheerful. The mood was downright celebratory. I was then told to turn my hazard lights on (to mark my vehicle as already done) and asked to stay put for fifteen minutes to make sure I didn’t have a reaction. If I felt I may be having a reaction I should lay on my horn until someone came around. In the meanwhile they made another appointment for me for a month out to get the second dose.

Of course nothing bad happened to me or anyone else and after 15 minutes I excused myself, checked out at the gates, and drove off. I was lucky as I had absolutely no side effects and look forward to getting my second shot.

Here’s hoping everyone out there stays healthy (I’ll be stocking my car with hand sanitizer for the rest of my life regardless!) And I will be seeing all of you in future entries of this blog. Stay safe everyone!