THE SHOT
I got my first booster shot this past Friday (12/3). My first and second vaccination were in March and April (5th & 2nd), so I figured it was about time.
I didn't realize it would be quite the chore finding a place. I thought you could just walk in. Apparently this newest variant has made more people wake up, and I'm glad about that. I could have went to a Walgreens and gotten the Phizer, but chose to stick with the Moderna. So I had to go to a Kroger in Decatur, IN. The Kroger by our house, where I'd received the first two shots, had no appointments for at least 12 days. Decatur had all kinds of availability. It's only 20 miles from our house, and I could get right in.
Everything went fine. The shot was quick and easy just like the first two. I immediately went for a 5-mile run/walk afterward - hoping the movement would get things flowing thru my body. I drank a bottle of gatorade and plenty of water and felt fine Friday night. Saturday morning I had some soreness in my arm where I got the shot, and just felt a little "off." I suppose very mild flu-like symptoms. I lay around the house until mid-afternoon and finally went for my daily jog. Interestingly enough, I have felt perfectly normal ever since then. My arm even stopped hurting.
The booster caused much less arm soreness than the first two shots, and I had way less reaction.
THE HAPPY PLACE
It was so weird, because I DID NOT feel like going for a run - and wouldn't have if I wasn't doing this running streak thing - but as soon as we started out (Jane went with) I started to feel better! Within the first half mile I was back to normal. It was like my body said, "Yes, Dan, this is what we're used to from you. This is our happy place!" Kind of like a dog.... You take it for a walk now and then and it's your friend for life.
I don't know, maybe I'm imagining things. Still, I feel like this is sort of how I am. I am most at peace when jogging. I've thought about trying to work on speed and whatnot (because I'm really slow), but then I think "why"? If this works for me, why not just enjoy it? So I think I will.
And THAT is how I made it through this day.
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"But godliness with contentment is great gain. For we brought nothing into the world, and we can take nothing out of it. But if we have food and clothing, we will be content with that. Those who want to get rich fall into temptation and a trap and into many foolish and harmful desires that plunge people into ruin and destruction. For the love of money is a root of all kinds of evil. Some people, eager for money, have wandered from the faith and pierced themselves with many griefs." - 1 Timothy 6:6-10
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