Moderna Covid Bivalent Booster in These Foolish Things

Crawling out of my skin a bit.

On Wednesday I got the new bivalent Covid vaccine. All of my previous vaccines had been Pfizer and had zero side effects, but this one was Moderna and I wondered if I was going to have a reaction.

I’d scheduled the vaccine at 5pm at a nearby pharmacy (CVS inside Target…my favorite place!), and then I was going to go directly from there to a cute coffee shop to meet up with my friend C. and some of her friends for just a little girls night kind of thing.

Shot was easy. No wait. The pharmacist did a quick jab and then asked me to wait for a bit in case I had an immediate reaction. I asked her if I could walk through the store for 15 minutes and if I fell over or whatnot, someone in the store would find me. She said OK!

Walked around the store, no biggie and then left for the coffee shop.

Had a nice time with my friend C. and met a couple of her friends. They want to start a little group of women who want to meet for positivity and to meet new people once a month - kind of like my brunch club with [Athena], only in the evenings. I love the idea and I had a really good time. Very mellow, and we even did a breathing exercise to kind of breathe in good vibes and breathe out negativity.

I know it sounds a little woo woo, but I like that kind of thing, and it was also the first evening before Fall, so it was easy to breathe in the smell of cooler fresh air and pumpkin spice and allllll of that basic stuff that makes people roll their eyes, but I don’t CARE! I love that shit!

Drove home with the top down and a slightly cooler breeze in my hair.

Went to bed and woke up feeling fine…ish. Maybe just the slightest headache and the tiniest twinge of wooziness.

By the time Martini and I started our morning walk, I could tell that my body was having some reaction to the booster.

Martini must be so in tune with my physical (and even mental) feelings that she kept getting in front of me with those pleading eyes and pulling for me to turn around. I was a little annoyed because I love our morning walks, but I thought about it a bit and she was right - I was feeling worse by the minute!

By the time we got back inside, I was full blown not feeling great and decided to lie on the couch for a bit and just see if the wooziness would go away.

It did not.

I stayed on the sofa until it was time for our evening walk! I literally could NOT get my body up and moving! I couldn’t even check my email. It was a good old fashioned shut down by my body - the closest thing I could come up with to describe it was like a pretty hard-core chemo day. And for those who are not familiar with how chemo feels, think of the worst hangover you’ve ever had.

Yeah, kinda like that.

Anyway.

Evening walk was short and dinner consisted of an English muffin with butter.

And then I went to bed.

Woke up this morning feeling well rested and much, much, muuuuuch better. I did a good, long walk with Martini this morning and have been catching up on things. I don’t yet feel 100%, but I’d say I feel a good 90% better than yesterday. I mean, a HUGE improvement.

So I guess all of that to say, I know that bivalent booster is in there doing its job because my immune system was ANGRY yesterday and now building itself back up.

I think it’s going to be worth it, though. I’d rather have one day of that nonsense than Covid.

I hope to be a Covid holdout for the rest of my life!

Okay, on with things - bigger and better things.
GS