I had to stop the mower and get down on the ground to take a picture of this sweet violet. Grandma called them Johnny-Jump-Ups and she would NOT let anyone cut her grass till they were gone!
We are heading to the beach soon for our yearly week at the condo. We’ve been watching the news reports for the prevalence of covid and trying to decide when to jump on the bandwagon and get that second booster. We’ve seen the numbers double since the mandates were eased and, while that is not entirely unexpected, it does hearken back to the possibility of history repeating itself. Mr. FixIt and I both have health issues that cause us to be extra cautious. Since we’ll be headed to a tourist destination, we decided to go ahead and get that booster yesterday.
It was really easy. I went to vaccines.gov and typed in our zip code, chose the type of vaccine we wanted and where we wanted to get it, and the site directed us to the pharmacy website. There I made both of our appointments and were quickly scheduled for 3:00 in the afternoon. It was raining and chilly when we left the house so I wore a heavy sweater. Once we checked in at the pharmacy, we had to wait a few minutes. It was REALLY warm in there and I quickly knew I needed to get out of that sweater so I went over to the clothing rack and bought a black tunic-type shirt. Ahhh…much better!
The pharmacist was an expert with the needle and I didn’t even feel it. I was happy to see he injected in the right spot so I didn’t have to correct him. A lot of people who give shots do so far too high on the arm which can actually cause a joint injury. I have absolutely no qualms telling someone the exact spot to inject. It was nice that I didn’t have to this time. Kudos to CVS!
I think the boosters are important, and if it wasn’t for the upcoming trip, I might have waiting till a little later on in the summer to get it. But we not only have the trip to the beach, but I’m heading to Colorado next month. There’s the travel, the parties, and the graduation gathering itself, as well as any number of social situations I may find myself in while I’m there. Also, I’ll be going to visit my brother. He had covid in February and I prefer he not get it again.
I was hoping we could get the mowing done out at the farm this week. There is a small window on Wednesday without rain so we’re going to shoot for that. If we can’t get it done, it will have to wait till we get back from the beach.
I knitted a little yesterday. I finished another hat and have one toddler sized mitten nearly finished. I’ll take my knitting with me on the trip. It’s so fun to sit out on the beach, but so far, the weather report is showing 60’s with a fair amount of rain. I don’t know how much beach sitting we’ll get this year. Today is knitting group. As long as I’m not feeling effects of the vaccine, I’m planning on going.
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“Behold, I will bring to it health and healing, and I will heal them and reveal to them abundance of prosperity and security.”
Jeremiah 33:6 ESV
I love flowers…even the kind people call weeds!??
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I made the same decision last night after hearing several people take about church members, cousins etc with Covid right now. Also the city of Philadelphia returning to requiring indoors masking helped me decide. I have an appointment Friday!
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We were talking with our PCP last week about when to get another booster. He told us that after the first one, any booster after the first one gives you about 4 days of extra protection. That’s the way the research is pointing. So we decided Heck with that. Not worth the hassle of getting it.
I’m reading four to eight weeks in the studies I’ve looked at and considering I’ll be traveling to Colorado and sitting in an arena with thousands of other people for a graduation, I’m happy to get boosted. And, I was told we had seven diagnosed positive here in Wirt county yesterday.
You also realize Covid numbers are the lowest now that they have been since the beginning? Camden- Clark and MMH have both closed their Covid units.
Wonderful! That means the vaccines are working. Now, Easter is coming then graduations and gatherings and people have relaxed their mitigating techniques. We’ll see where this goes. Hopefully, we won’t have a drastic surge this time and this is settling into a more manageable disease for everyone. Still, vaccines and health guidelines are the ticket to maintaining safety.
I thought of another reason for the reduction in numbers. You cannot find what you do not look for. Relaxed monitoring will reflect that by a reduction in testing. And, what about all these home test kits? As soon as those were introduced, statistics became less reliable as people will not self report illness to the people keeping track of disease numbers. Just food for thought, dear one.
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