The Joy of Being Down for the Count

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5 min readAug 31, 2021

I got my second vaccination yesterday afternoon. Today I am home, achy, slightly feverish, dizzy, weak, and slow.

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It is a blessing.

The first shot took me through similar symptoms, and I was also grateful. It’s not only because I am glad in the bigger picture that having symptoms from a vaccine means that I have access to health care, though that is of course an omnipresent…

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