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@johnbishop, I welcomed the news about the side effects of your second Pfizer vaccine. We just received our first and I will not be afraid of that second dose. Extreme fatigue for a day is a small price to pay for protection. Let us hope everyone receives the vaccine. We need to stop this virus so we can resume our lives and enjoy each other's company! Thanks for posting this message of hope. Take care, @joybringer1
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@joybringer I'm an 85 year old Canadian, living in an Assisted Living seniors' residence. I've got GCA, Diabetes, Neuropathy, and several other autoimmune conditions. I received my first Moderna dose in January, along with all the other seniors in my building. Of all 50 of us, with varying degrees of illness, disability and age, NONE of us had a bad reaction, other than a sore arm for a day or so. We were scheduled to receive our second Covid shot on January 7th, but our provincial Covid expert, Dr. Bonnie Henry, advised the new protocol is to wait 16 weeks between the first and second dose. We're all somewhat troubled and disappointed by this decision, but feel we have to trust scientific evidence in this regard. My seniors' residence is one of the very few that have not had a single case of Covid, thanks to careful Executive Staff management of our building, plus our residents all adhering to the stringent Covid rules we all know so well. Just this week, we've been in Lockdown again, due to alarming new outbreaks in our city. We've had no visitors, no personal outings, no gatherings, for a year now, but we have each other, and that's good enough, so long as we're safe from Covid. It is what it is, folks. We'd rather have the side effects from the vaccine than die an awful death from that disease.
I hope you'll decide to get your Covid vaccinations. Warm regards, Laurie
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Unfortunately, I think the jury is still out. I mentioned previously that my neuropathy symptoms increased after the first Pfizer shot, but I decided to go ahead not knowing if it was truly the vaccine or just the normal development of symptoms for my body. Plus, I am fully in support of getting the vaccine to help our world get out of this pandemic. I had my second shot on Thursday. Normal minor flu like response, however, my neuropathy, plus joint and muscle pain, has increased again. I hope that some researchers are going to investigate these occurrences, as this second hike in symptoms is even worse than the first. Clearly not everyone is having this sort of reaction, but it seems there are enough of us that it warrants attention.