Two pokes in the arm for community :)
Sep. 1st, 2024 03:21 pmAs ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
sovay aptly put it, I have been shot in the shoulder. Twice, even, as I got the flu and Covid vaccines in the same appointment. I figure, with the Toronto trip and the attendant blood donation (yes, I'm doing the 'up over the border birthday run, donate as part of the celebration' thing again this year) in a matter of weeks, I should get any side effects that might hit me thoroughly out of my system with time to spare.
If I start feeling iffy while out playing radio this evening, or wake up feeling iffy before going out to do the same tomorrow, I'll know why. I'll be warning the friends I'm with that iffiness might be possible.
Kudos and how to the Walgreen's pharmacists in my neighborhood, oh my goodness. They were fantastic. I do not give kudos to the CVS in my neighborhood, because setting up an appointment, then finding out via voicemail that they don't take your insurance, and getting stuck in a damnable doom tree when trying to call them back is an exhausting wall of avoidable horribleness. I wound up walking to the local Walgreen's, hoping they took walk-ins and, really, hoping they were even open on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I got so very lucky. So very lucky. I wished the pharmacist the blessing of baked goods of her choosing after she told me, without batting an eye, that she could absolutely take a walk-in vaccine appointment. WHEW! Any Madison local folks, the Walgreen's near Hilldale is great, people-wise. The CVS inside Target isn't honestly bad as far as actual staff go, it's just their corporate BS that's ridiculous.
I repeat, Whew!
sovay aptly put it, I have been shot in the shoulder. Twice, even, as I got the flu and Covid vaccines in the same appointment. I figure, with the Toronto trip and the attendant blood donation (yes, I'm doing the 'up over the border birthday run, donate as part of the celebration' thing again this year) in a matter of weeks, I should get any side effects that might hit me thoroughly out of my system with time to spare. If I start feeling iffy while out playing radio this evening, or wake up feeling iffy before going out to do the same tomorrow, I'll know why. I'll be warning the friends I'm with that iffiness might be possible.
Kudos and how to the Walgreen's pharmacists in my neighborhood, oh my goodness. They were fantastic. I do not give kudos to the CVS in my neighborhood, because setting up an appointment, then finding out via voicemail that they don't take your insurance, and getting stuck in a damnable doom tree when trying to call them back is an exhausting wall of avoidable horribleness. I wound up walking to the local Walgreen's, hoping they took walk-ins and, really, hoping they were even open on the Sunday before Labor Day, and I got so very lucky. So very lucky. I wished the pharmacist the blessing of baked goods of her choosing after she told me, without batting an eye, that she could absolutely take a walk-in vaccine appointment. WHEW! Any Madison local folks, the Walgreen's near Hilldale is great, people-wise. The CVS inside Target isn't honestly bad as far as actual staff go, it's just their corporate BS that's ridiculous.
I repeat, Whew!
