This reported op-ed documents the experience of getting a COVID booster shot.
. A few weeks ago, in a panic, I texted one of my best friends who is also chronically ill. Was she as worried about catching the Delta variant as I was? How could we put additional symptoms on our already long lists? “I cannot handle any more brain fog on top of the brain fog I have,” I said. “Yeah,” she agreed. “I don’t know, realistically, if I can take another bout of being sick from something new.
Given my health history and eligibility for a third shot, I jumped into action and secured an appointment for August 22. Getting an appointment for the booster was starkly different than getting an appointment for the original shot. The first time, I spent hours combing through the websites of different pharmacies to find an open appointment. For the booster, I casually chose a Sunday afternoon after looking through my options for five minutes.
Still, I felt more anxious leading up to my booster than I did with the two original shots. It’s hard to pinpoint the source of my anxiety: Part of it was shame that I needed a booster shot in the first place ; part was that I only knew one other person who had gotten the booster; and part was worry over how my body would react.
After years of chronic illness, I don’t flinch at needles, so the actual vaccination was easy. I waited in the pharmacy for the required 15 minutes to assess possible side effects, and then went home. By the time I went to sleep on Sunday night, I felt overly lethargic and a little achy. I slept fitfully. I’d pull on a sweatshirt because I felt cold, then strip it off with all my blankets because I felt hot. I woke up in the morning feeling like I was experiencing thewith COVID vaccinations.
I worked for a few hours, then fell headfirst into a three-hour nap. When I woke up, my flulike symptoms were slightly worse. Fortunately, my sister had made her famous homemade chicken noodle soup, which was the only thing I ate that day and the next. I went to sleep early on Monday night, and when I woke up on Tuesday I felt better. The body aches and chills had subsided. All that was left was a vaguely hungover feeling — I was tired and my head hurt but I could function.
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