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Originally Posted by WT Sharpe
My wife didn't look, she didn't feel it, and an hour an a half after getting the shot worried that she might not have been given the actual vaccine. It worried her for the rest of the day and into the night. The next morning she awoke with a sore arm and was quite pleased.
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Originally Posted by mlewis78
I did not feel the first shot go in (Moderna) and they did not put a band-aid on it. I felt it seven hours later when I had the pain in that area though. I felt the 2nd shot go in and the pain in the arm was many hours later.
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These echo my own experience. 48 hours after my second shot, my arm had passed soreness into actual (not severe) pain, but it subsided thereafter. I was happy. The happiness of the vaccinated is palpable. The odd thing for me is that after a year, my knee jerk reaction to slightly dicey situations remains one of aversion and worry. I haven’t dialed it down yet. Obviously my behavior won’t alter in the immediate future.
Still trying to decide what my “celebration” of my new status will be. Like pooh, a haircut? I definitely need one; I look like a cross between a thatched roof and a Lhasa Apso. But that’s not something I enjoy. For one of my neighbors, it was hugging his son (an EMT, so also vaccinated) for the first time in a year. For another, it was buying a plane ticket to visit his 95-year old mother in Santa Monica this summer.