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So, it's been about six months since I last put anything up here (I really need to get back into the habit of posting).
At present, I'm busy recovering from getting a COVID booster shot on Thursday evening. This one (Pfizer, first I've had of that type; the first two were Astra-Zeneca) is leaving me with a few side effects I hadn't been expecting. For starters, my left arm is still sore (which reminds me of the first dose of Astra-Zeneca, where I wound up feeling as though I'd had a tetanus booster; my arm ached for about a week), and this time it looks like there's a degree of immune system response involved in things (the area under my left arm, where all the lymph nodes live, is sore and achey). Plus I'm tired all the time, although this may just be a perfectly normal response to the combination of five days of having to be up and about and social while autistic, and a several-day heatwave, both of which would leave me tired even without the vaccine involvement.
I'm also having to deal with having be up and about and social (I'm the one person in my team who isn't taking time off over the Christmas break) for six days in a row - 4 days of work, plus Christmas day visit to the in-laws yesterday and a visit to my family today) which for me is a bit of a stretch and a push. I get two days to recover, but given I generally have 3 days off each week to recover from 4 days work, I suspect I'm going to be a little bit stretched-thin at work next week.
Ah well, I'm still alive so far. It's a start.
At present, I'm busy recovering from getting a COVID booster shot on Thursday evening. This one (Pfizer, first I've had of that type; the first two were Astra-Zeneca) is leaving me with a few side effects I hadn't been expecting. For starters, my left arm is still sore (which reminds me of the first dose of Astra-Zeneca, where I wound up feeling as though I'd had a tetanus booster; my arm ached for about a week), and this time it looks like there's a degree of immune system response involved in things (the area under my left arm, where all the lymph nodes live, is sore and achey). Plus I'm tired all the time, although this may just be a perfectly normal response to the combination of five days of having to be up and about and social while autistic, and a several-day heatwave, both of which would leave me tired even without the vaccine involvement.
I'm also having to deal with having be up and about and social (I'm the one person in my team who isn't taking time off over the Christmas break) for six days in a row - 4 days of work, plus Christmas day visit to the in-laws yesterday and a visit to my family today) which for me is a bit of a stretch and a push. I get two days to recover, but given I generally have 3 days off each week to recover from 4 days work, I suspect I'm going to be a little bit stretched-thin at work next week.
Ah well, I'm still alive so far. It's a start.
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