"Quality of life"......a gift that just keeps on giving.

@dsh33782
Like you Don, I received the Pfizer vaccine yesterday and have just a sore arm today. This is my gift to myself with a scheduled second dose on February 1. I live in the next county to you...Pasco ...in the Trinity/New Port Richey area...and used to live in Pinellas.
We have opened up another site for distribution but it is a slow process. Hillsborough seems to be more organized.

FL Mary

@dsh33782, Big Congrats, Don, on being among the first to get the Pfizer vacc!

My doc suggested putting me on the list and I was stunned and jubilant to have received the Moderna on Friday. Many annual flu shots gave me a much sorer arm..this one was a breeze. We also share the exact same desire and possibility of actually perhaps visiting our children in Colorado later in the year.

My hope, too, is that as more become eligible for the vaccine and more vaccine is distributed and administered, more will take advantage of it. Almost a miracle that vaccines were developed in less than a year! As a member, @kamama94, often writes: "This is a good day to be alive!"

@artscaping, Your response has me laughing! What was all of our hard earned wisdom for if not to "share" with our children???? ahem. Still amazes sometimes that mine is doing quite well, thank you very much without my "pearls" and .... has even been known to attempt some reverse parenting suggestions to me...the older, wiser one...Imagine! LOL

@ess77, Congrats to you as well for getting the Moderno vacc as well! Yes, I too have my appt. card for the 2nd vacc and feel to fortunate to already be beginning to be more protected! Celebration time for sure!

@artscaping went to the ortho surgeon yesterday and the only thing I got from him was angry! Told me my shoulder was back in the socket, which I could tell. Said the x rays showed him nothing and I need to get an MRI. Can't be scheduled for 2 weeks. No medication! Nothing for the pain. Said he did not know me well enough. So I have to suck it up, continue to get little sleep, and pretend my pain is gone. Very discouraged. He said he did not know me well enough to prescribe anything! I told him the appointment was a waste and thanks for not caring about my daily 7-10 pain level. As the day goes on it rises. So did my temper in his office.

For my two cents worth, I would certainly look around for a doctor with compassion--compassion with a capitol C That sort fo attitude is inexcusable!. I am angry for your having to go through such horrid treatment. Good luck and let us know how things turn out. I'd tell the guy good bye. Really like how you told him about the waste of time and his lack of caring.

Wow Suzanne, that's a doc I would fire in one second. And if he is part of a group practice or professional association, I would write a letter to tell them exactly why. I did just that with my ortho after a very bad post-surgical experience. Then I found a replacement who is pure gold. My daughter, a former surgical nurse, says this is characteristic of many surgeons - they prefer their patients unconscious.
Sue

@dsh33782 Re the Covid vaccinations. Don - Did you have any choice which vaccine you got in terms of which company manufactured it and is that even something people should worry about. It has been confusing to me to read tidbits like this one is 70% effective, that one is 97% effective, that company has a reputation for falsifying test results, etc. I think at this point I'll be glad to get anything offered, but maybe that isn't the most prudent thing to do. Thanks for your insight. Nancy

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@fiesty76 I guess we share the same desire. We haven't seen our son in Denver since the first weekend of February, last year. This will be the first Superbowl weekend in a very long time that we, or at least my husband, has not traveled to watch it with him. Hopefully we will get to visit him, either here or there, sometime in the relatively close future.

I hope too that more and more people who are reluctant to have the vaccine will change their minds when they see that it has not negatively affected those who have gotten it. If not enough people get it we will never have "community immunity".

@sueinmn I had a gastroenterologist who was that way - preferred his patients to be unconscious. After an endoscopy showing that I had Barrett's Esophagus I tried to speak to him. He would not speak to me, his office told me to speak to my PCP! That was the last contact I had with his office. I then switched to a fabulous gastroenterologist at Mass General.
JK