So... how'd it go?

[susandennis]

It went great. Until I tried to get out of the parking garage.

They had a desk all set up where they took pertinent info and then gave you a simple 'I don't have COVID symptoms' form to fill out and then a cute and very perky nurse came and got me and shot me and gave me a very very boring bandaid. Then I sat with maybe 7 other people in a very socially distanced room while another nurse gave us a talk on how this wouldn't fix us - we need the other shot and what to do if we have symptoms and which symptoms are COVID and which are vaccine reaction and please sign up for the government's vaccine reaction database. I got to sit through it twice before they released me.

It was a very pleasant experience all the way around. Oh and before you even got the shot, they set up an appointment for shot number 2.

The clinic has, however, replaced the guy at the parking toll both with some really really bad software. It took forever to get the damn machine to open up the gate. I could have paid before I got into the car but forgot. I will not be making that mistake when I got back. February 19 2:15.



I think there may be waffles for dinner. Who didn't see that coming??

Comments

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

I'm really surprised that you had to walk in. Here everything has been drive through for the vaccines. Well, at least the first phase. Maybe now it's starting to change.

[chocolate-frapp.livejournal.com]

what about people who don't own cars? how do they get the shots?

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

Good question. I have no idea. There has to be an option that I'm just not aware of. Also, I know things are changing as they enter different phases...for example, there will be vaccines brought in to assisted living facilities and nursing homes, and things like that...so there have to be some options that I don't know about. I do know that the vast majority of people are having to schedule at this giant football stadium that has been turned into a drive through immunization site, and other drive through sites. One of the doctors I work with spent the day giving injections through car windows on Thursday, which I thought was pretty cool.

[newwaytowrite.livejournal.com]

Do you mean people living in long term homes and such plus the staff working in long term care were not the very first group to be vaccinated?

[carriea31.livejournal.com]

As far as I heard, the first priority here were healthcare workers, but they had to go to the drive through vaccination sites to get it. It was not brought in to the facilities at first, so the patients/clients living there were not first on the list. My son's girlfriend works in an assisted care facility, and her group certainly did not get them as first priority, nor did the residents. I'm not sure how it all looks in writing, but from what I saw through the news, my own office, and then that info from the girlfriend, it was Phase 1A was healthcare workers in the drive through setting, 1B was the healthcare and staff of senior centers/nursing homes, and then they began with the general population of senior citizens over a certain age, done at the drive through vaccine sites. I do know a couple offices were arranged as designated distributors, so those offices may have gotten a shipment. I wonder how they are storing it since it has the requirements for the temperature and all that. I'm sure there are priorities and ways of working it out that I have zero idea about, though, so don't count me as an expert source by any means.

[daphnep.livejournal.com]

Hooray!!!
This is so exciting: you’re halfway there. I know you. Every person I know who gets vaccinated is one step back to the world getting better.

[spacefem.livejournal.com]

YAY!

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

Hurrah!!

[seattlejo.livejournal.com]

Wooo! Glad you got the first shot!

[badrobot68.livejournal.com]

I'm so happy you're able to get vaccinated! Grocery workers aren't getting them yet, but I'm hoping it happens soon.