March, 2021

March 2021

March rolled on and we went camping for our anniversary weekend. There's a fabulous park down on the bay about 40 minutes or so from home. Our anniversary was that coming Saturday. Brandon had been using topical pain relief and Alleve to help with the pain. I'd gone home to feed the birds that Friday. 

Our local college was hosting a drive through COVID vaccination clinic that same Friday and part of me thought about driving past it to see how many cars were there to get their vaccine, but went back to the campground the way I came. 

When I got back and settled in, I saw a message from a neighbor who works there, on our neighborhood FB page saying to come get the vaccine, that the college would be giving them away until 3 that afternoon. I went ahead and asked though - what are the restrictions? I knew we didn't meet the criteria, age, infirm, etc., but he told me the restrictions anyway confirming what I'd suspected already. 

Lo and behold, another FB page had an announcement that someone else who also didn't fit the criteria had gotten HER vaccination. 

Queue flurry of messages from various people also on FB  with their own questions, etc. Next, I hear from two neighbors saying that their loved ones were waiting in line and one of them herself was on her way to get her vaccine. They'd tossed out the restrictions (you did have to be at least 16). More likely it was due to the targeted demographic not being met. I looked at hubs, he looked at me and we decided to pack up and see if we could get ours. 

Loaded the doggo's in their crates and headed up there (we had no idea how long we'd have to wait and we didn't want to leave the dogs alone in the camper). Took maybe 25 minutes to get there. 

The college had cordoned off all the gates but one and were directing traffic in through it. Very efficient, very quick moving traffic into the gates. There were checkpoints set up to get paperwork to fill out, pick up an admission ticket, etc. We both got our jabs, waited the requisite 15 minutes after the jab with an appointment card and our vaccine card to come back in few weeks to get our second and off we went. 

Amazing! We'd honestly thought we'd have to wait a lot longer to actually get our vaccines. 

We celebrated 22 years of marriage the next day. 

The pain continued - middle of his back and his right side. Roll onto the end of the month and making an appointment with a Bone and Joint doctor after a visit or two with a chiropractor which didn't help. 

March 31st was his ortho appointment after which he attended a few PT appointments which only seemed to make things worse.