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We both had our booster today. We were ok anytime after Jan13/22 to get it our 6 months was up then. We got it around 11:00 am our time.

So far, so good!

-VR

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I had the Pfizer booster early December. Felt bad the next day but was fine after that.

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@the-gravedigger said
I had the Pfizer booster early December. Felt bad the next day but was fine after that.
We had the Moderna Booster. First was Phizer vaccine then 2nd was Moderna. I guess I'll know more tomorrow. Hope all is ok as I have an appointment with a specialist if I have to cancel God only knows when I'll get the next one.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
We had the Moderna Booster. First was Phizer vaccine then 2nd was Moderna. I guess I'll know more tomorrow. Hope all is ok as I have an appointment with a specialist if I have to cancel God only knows when I'll get the next one.

-VR
All my three vaccinations are Pfizer, I felt a little tired after the third one but other than that nothing.

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@torunn said
All my three vaccinations are Pfizer, I felt a little tired after the third one but other than that nothing.
Nice to hear you and t-g had no issues with your boosters.

Hopefully we will join you in that.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
We both had our booster today. We were ok anytime after Jan13/22 to get it our 6 months was up then. We got it around 11:00 am our time.
Got mine two weeks ago.

Funny thing, for the first two it took a while. I called in (you can book on-line in my country, but I have my reasons to want to speak to a real human to make sure the date and location are doable for me), spent more than half an hour on hold, then had to wait weeks for my first shot.

This time, the envelope landed on my mat while I was at work, I called first thing (well, second, after brewing a cuppa) on coming home, was first or second in line, spent only a couple of minutes waiting, and I could come in two days later. No idea what changed in the logistics, but it was a lot less of a bore this time.

As for side-effects: for the first one, I was a bit flustered that day, but that was more expecting side-effects than having any. No worse than a bit restless, either. The second one, none, except for the obvious bruise where they jabbed me. Booster, ditto.

9/10 - would highly recommend.

(Edit: all three Pfizer.)

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@shallow-blue said
Got mine two weeks ago.

Funny thing, for the first two it took a while. I called in (you can book on-line in my country, but I have my reasons to want to speak to a real human to make sure the date and location are doable for me), spent more than half an hour on hold, then had to wait weeks for my first shot.

This time, the envelope landed on my mat while I was at ...[text shortened]... where they jabbed me. Booster, ditto.

9/10 - would highly recommend.

(Edit: all three Pfizer.)
I did mine on the computer got mine for 11:04 and better half for 11:12.

We got there early to make sure we were on the list and we were and even with waiting 15 minutes after given the booster, we were out of there by 11:00 a.m., obviously they took us early.

First 2 were also done on the computer, with no issues.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
I did mine on the computer got mine for 11:04 and better half for 11:12.

We got there early to make sure we were on the list and we were and even with waiting 15 minutes after given the booster, we were out of there by 11:00 a.m., obviously they took us early.

First 2 were also done on the computer, with no issues.
Most people do it on-line and have no problem with it, but I'm an awkward bastard.

First, I live in a smallish town. We have two...? I think? decent but limited vaccination centres, but no longer a full-blown hospital.
Don't get me started on that. Really. Do not.
. Second, I don't have a car, so I can't just drive to the next town over where they do have a 24/7, full-staffed hospital. Third, we have mediocre public transport
by Dutch measures - in England it would be good, in the USA it would be amazing
, good enough for a day's shopping pre-Covid, but I'm really not spending one hour out and one back wearing a mask all the time, no respite, to spend half an hour elsewhere. Third, I'm physically relatively fine, and especially my respiratory system is used to fend off a flu or two with success, thank you very much, so while I wanted this booster, I didn't think I had to hurry.

So, I really, really wanted to get my jabs at my local hospital. I didn't want it yesterday, anywhere; I wanted it here, somewhere in the next month or so. Which is something you can explain to a human, not to a website.

Also, the first time I tried to log on, the website told me it was overloaded and please try again later. Which, as a web programmer and part sysadmin, I have sympathy for, but isn't any use to me in those circumstances.

My neighbour had a similarly unhelpful story: he managed to log on and got options in towns with full hospitals twenty miles one way, twenty miles another way, and thirty miles thataway - none of which would've been useful to me. His wife logged on the next day, and got an option the same day in our local used-to-be-a-hospital-before-it-was-gutted-now-is-a-medical-centre, which is at most two minutes' walk from here. Literally two minutes' walk: all I have to do (and, after calling, did) is walk out my street past that same neighbour's front door, turn right, turn right again, and enter the building. But would I have the same luck? Probably not.

Given all that, you can probably understand why I didn't want to get this appointment from a website. I wanted to speak to a human being and, if necessary, explain why I had the peculiar preferences I did.
As it happened, my peculiar preferences were catered for perfectly, somewhat by accident; but I do think a human operator was more likely to be sympathetic to them than a website would have been.

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@shallow-blue said
Most people do it on-line and have no problem with it, but I'm an awkward bastard.

First, I live in a smallish town. We have two...? I think? decent but limited vaccination centres, but no longer a full-blown hospital. [hidden]Don't get me started on that. Really. Do not.[/hidden]. Second, I don't have a car, so I can't just drive to the next town over where th ...[text shortened]... do think a human operator was more likely to be sympathetic to them than a website would have been.
Yes, I can understand why and I am very sympathetic to your situation.

I just take what I have for granted, not thinking other people may not have the same advantages as I do.

I had mine at a clinic but a Dr. Did the injection. I should keep in mind there are people without cars, which I take for granted.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Yes, I can understand why and I am very sympathetic to your situation.

I just take what I have for granted, not thinking other people may not have the same advantages as I do.

I had mine at a clinic but a Dr. Did the injection. I should keep in mind there are people without cars, which I take for granted.
Under normal circumstances, my lack of a car is only somewhat, but certainly not much, of a disadvantage. After all, I live in the Netherlands, so I manage my everyday life with just fine on a bike. In this case as well, things worked out with no problems. They usually do, in a civilised country.

I recommend the YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes".

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@shallow-blue said
Under normal circumstances, my lack of a car is only somewhat, but certainly not much, of a disadvantage. After all, I live in the Netherlands, so I manage my everyday life with just fine on a bike. In this case as well, things worked out with no problems. They usually do, in a civilised country.

I recommend the YouTube channel "Not Just Bikes".
Then not really a disadvantage for you could have biked there and back! 😉

Good exercise too!

-VR

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Today is the day after we got our booster shot.

Both our arms a little sore nothing serious, but we feel really tired and drug out like you would at the end of a hard day doing physical work.

Other than that everything good so far.

-VR

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@very-rusty said
We both had our booster today. We were ok anytime after Jan13/22 to get it our 6 months was up then. We got it around 11:00 am our time.

So far, so good!

-VR
All the cool kids have the booster by now. I got mine second week of December.

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@suzianne said
All the cool kids have the booster by now. I got mine second week of December.
Yes we had ours on the 26th of this month. I am still feeling tired and drug out. Better half not so much was this morning but as the day went along she felt better and better. So, I may just be taking a little longer after all I am around 9 years older than her. 🙂

I may not be one of the cool kids, but that ok too! 😉

-VR

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@very-rusty said
Yes we had ours on the 26th of this month. I am still feeling tired and drug out. Better half not so much was this morning but as the day went along she felt better and better. So, I may just be taking a little longer after all I am around 9 years older than her. 🙂

I may not be one of the cool kids, but that ok too! 😉

-VR
I removed a blackhead from my armpit today. Just thought I'd share.

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