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shewhomustBarely a week after durham_rambler had booked his vaccination with the Nightingale Hospital - and had been advised by the GP not to accept their subsequent invitation (which was for the first dose only, whereas he had dates for both), I too received a phone call from the GP: could I attend their session the next day? Which was yesterday.
I said yes, of course. And yesterday evening we slid the car carefully down the icy hill in the dark -
- This was my fault. I am so well trained to remember thatdurham_rambler has a Very Important Meeting every other Friday afternoon, and may not emerge before five o' clock, that when the surgery offered me a 4.30 appointment, I asked if they had anything later. It was only after we'd agreed on 6.45 that I remembered that that was the other Friday. -
I wasn't apprehensive about the injection itself, though I was anxious about the icy roads, finding the surgery, what to wear: I liked this comment from Edinburgh GP Gavin Francis, in a Guardian 'Long Read' about vaccinations:
In the end, given the icy cold, I put on my coat over a very sloppy jumper (over a t-shirt), and that was fine. And once we got onto the through road, that was fine too, and we only briefly overshot the (not our usual) surgery.
While I was being seen (or not - it's the 15 minutes observation after that takes the time and limits the number of patients)durham_rambler organised a Chinese takeaway, which we accompanied with the Society's Stellenbosch chenin blanc and that Long Read.
And afterwards we watched Alice Roberts at Stonehenge, explaining how Geoffrey of Monmouth was right - but that's another story.
durham_rambler had booked his vaccination with the Nightingale Hospital - and had been advised by the GP not to accept their subsequent invitation (which was for the first dose only, whereas he had dates for both), I too received a phone call from the GP: could I attend their session the next day? Which was yesterday.I said yes, of course. And yesterday evening we slid the car carefully down the icy hill in the dark -
- This was my fault. I am so well trained to remember that
durham_rambler has a Very Important Meeting every other Friday afternoon, and may not emerge before five o' clock, that when the surgery offered me a 4.30 appointment, I asked if they had anything later. It was only after we'd agreed on 6.45 that I remembered that that was the other Friday. -I wasn't apprehensive about the injection itself, though I was anxious about the icy roads, finding the surgery, what to wear: I liked this comment from Edinburgh GP Gavin Francis, in a Guardian 'Long Read' about vaccinations:
It's a much joked-about law within medicine, at least in Scotland, that anyone arriving for vaccination must remove at least three layers of clothing before we can get at their arm. (Those who turn up in a vest under one thick overcoat – we salute you.)
In the end, given the icy cold, I put on my coat over a very sloppy jumper (over a t-shirt), and that was fine. And once we got onto the through road, that was fine too, and we only briefly overshot the (not our usual) surgery.
While I was being seen (or not - it's the 15 minutes observation after that takes the time and limits the number of patients)
durham_rambler organised a Chinese takeaway, which we accompanied with the Society's Stellenbosch chenin blanc and that Long Read.And afterwards we watched Alice Roberts at Stonehenge, explaining how Geoffrey of Monmouth was right - but that's another story.
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Date: 2021-02-13 01:06 pm (UTC)Our second is on the 22nd April.
I feel as if I've jumped the queue, but we were invited in to make sure shots got used up.
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Date: 2021-02-13 02:15 pm (UTC)I don't think you've jumped the queue!
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Date: 2021-02-13 06:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2021-02-14 12:27 pm (UTC)