So...

Thursday, when talking to mom, she mentioned she was at Wal-Mart earlier and asked the pharmacist about a COVID shot and was told they could do it right then.  So after some paperwork, she got a COVID, a flu and some other shot (maybe shingles?  I forget).  

I thought wow, if they have those, I better go get them before the morons in charge outlaw them.  So I got online and made an appointment to get a COVID and flu shot Friday after work.  I usually get my flu shot at work, they give them to us for free, but they don't usually give them out until late October or even early November.  So I thought, while I'm getting the COVID shot, might as well get the flu one too.

After work Friday I got to Wal-Mart and after an irritating and unprofessional 15 minute wait to even get to the window (if I didn't have an appointment, I'd have left and come back another time), I did get to the window and checked in.  

Once in the lil room with the pharmacist, she said due to my birth year, I might want to think about a measles vaccine too.  I had read about this earlier in the year.  Prior to about the time I was born, the measles vaccine was lifetime coverage.  A few years before I was until a few years after I was born, they used something different which was thought to lifetime coverage, but turned out to not be.  And then a couple years after I was born, they went to something else which went back to providing lifetime coverage.  So there's a window where what we got might not be enough.  Hence, why the pharmacist suggested another one.  And I agreed. 

So I got the flu in the right arm (since I had to work Saturday and I didn't want that arm hurting too much) and the other two in my left arm.   That evening, the left arm started arching a bit. 

Saturday, all day the left arm throbbed and ached.  The right less so.  And I was exhausted all day, felt like I was dragging my ass 10 feet behind me.  And I was achy all over, not really bad, just enough to be irritating.   Work was not fun.   Nor, frankly, was being here at home after work. 

But this morning when I work up, right arm is fine, no tiredness, no aches, and the left arm is less sore than even the right was yesterday. Just like all the other times I got the COVID shot.  

So at least all that done with until next fall...if, as I said, the morons in charge don't outlaw it. 

POLT