SHIKIMIKIE: Astrazeneca

Tuesday, 13 July 2021

FULLY VACCINATED

Second dose July 13, 2021 0

In this post, I just want to share that your girl is now fully vaccinated. I don't know how it will be able to protect me or everyone around me but I hate hate hate how relaxed I feel in general. Like, pre-vaccination, I would wash my hands maybe every 15 minutes. I never touch anything at work without wearing gloves, and all that. After vaccination, I kinda lean towards my usual way pre-COVID. I still wash my hands though! Just not as often. I don't know. To be honest, I feel like I'd catch or maybe already caught the virus again at some point. But you know, KNOCK ON WOOD cause your girl will fly to Japan soon! Did you guys miss my Japan post? Is it just me? LOL. So yeah there's that. My second dose was sooo much better. No symptoms at all! Well, except for the pain on the injection site. I still took paracetamol like I did before so I don't know if I prevented the symptoms altogether or if there's no symptoms at all. I guess the first dose was so traumatic that I didn't want it to happen again. Can I just rant for one second?? So our second dose was supposed to be on 5/21/2021 and the staff at the clinic who chose to have Astrazeneca was divided into two groups. I was on the second group. The first group then went to the vaccination site only to be told that the second dose will be moved after two weeks. Like, you should have sent us a text. I kinda knew it would happen and I even told everyone. Because my sister who took the same shot received a text two weeks before her supposed to be scheduled dose. Anyway, even though I didn't have to go to the venue, I still felt bad for my co-workers who had to go because it was extra extra hot/sunny that day. Anyway, it's old news but I just wanted to share that. One thing I want to rant about is how they spelt AstraZeneca.

I mean, It's AstraZeneca and not AZTRAZENECA for goodness sake. I mean, as a commoner, it’s quite easy to wonder how well our vaccination card will be recognized internationally though. It’s just not at that level yet. I mean, maybe just my card personally. I’ve seen some decent cards though so there’s that. Yun lang! Why didn’t they standardized the cards for everyone in the first place?

Saturday, 3 April 2021

COVID 19 Vaccine First Dose Done

Covid 19 Vaccine April 03, 2021 0

Where is the lie? (Relevant but not for long)

I had my first dose of the vaccine on March 26, 2021. As per WHO’s recommendation, SINOVAC isn’t advised for medical front-liners and then there was this debate that Medical Technologists such as myself isn’t really considered a front-liner and stuff but yeah that’s for another story. Maybe later in the post.

Before coming to work, I already took one paracetamol to kind of prep myself for the whole procedure. I’m sorry, liver.

To my surprise, they let us choose what to get and I actually don’t mind getting any of the two that is available but I opted for the one that is “recommended”. But it’s just me. You can get whatever you want. Just get it ASAP.

This is me getting jabbed. Initial feeling is actually just pain on the area. Nothing really weird.

This is my celebratory meal. Loved it.

CHILLS. FEVER. DIARRHEA. VOMITING. HEADACHE. A little bit of all of that. Well actually, the headache was kind of severe on the second day that I was literally down. I actually took paracetamol every 4 hours after the first ever dosage that day but it still managed to fvkc me up.

I switched to a different paracetamol but yeah I guess the way to deal with everything is to just let it be. I mean, take paracetamol sure, but there’s really nothing you can do with it. Just go with the flow. Now let me just go back with the issue of medical technologists not being a front-liner real quick. I don’t mind if it was said to me because we do not really cater to COVID 19 PATIENTS. So I guess I’m not a front-liner in that sense. But some of my acquaintances sacrifice/d a whole lot just to be invalidated by the government they’re trying to help. So you know, just be careful with the words you put out there because not everyone is the same.