Thursday, February 11, 2021

Getting the Shot At Robstown and last nights Dream

 


This morning I woke up in a state of elation. My dream was that our family all got together again, and no one had covid or had to worry about all the covid restrictions. It was a little weird, most dreams are, but it was so nice to be together. In the dream our son was a jazz musician in New Orleans and our daughter was dancing as he played. The important thing was that we were all together, which we have not been in several years.

I know what the cause of the dream was, the thought that our waking nightmare from the Covid actually had an end in sight. We are not there yet but in three more weeks we will get the second shot and then two weeks after that we should not fear the Covid again.


We have been trying to get the shot for weeks, as soon as people in our age group have been eligible. We have tried calling everyplace where clinics are being registering and have filled out pharmacy forms, and loaded county safety alert apps on our phones and computer.

On the day that we got luckily/succeeded, we called a registration number over four hundred and fifty times without any success. Our neighbor Jane, also called on her phone and at the last she got through. After registering herself and Dave she sent him over to our house and we hurried to theirs.   

                                       


As they finished, she handed her phone to Renita who also quickly registered, she had got the last of the one thousand open spots. I could not register but I was happy that the others had registered. Later we got the code to show up at the Robstown Fairground, the same place where we show our gems during the Gulf Coast Gem and Mineral Show.

Two days later we arrived in Robstown where a volunteer came to our car window and asked for Renitas registration. He asked if I was registered, and I said I no, just Renitas driver, so he wrote a “1”, on our windshield. The shots had not yet started when another volunteer came up to our window and asked me if I wanted to join the overflow waiting list after Renita got her shot.


To get the shot we, (after waiting our turn, over seven hundred cars and trucks were in the lines), were finally waved forward through the first building. Another volunteer then waved us to the second building where we were told to take line three. There were three rows of tables and on each side a volunteer nurse/emt waited for us. Others filled each hypodermic and had them ready to be given.

In less time than it takes to explain this Renita had her shot and we drove into the waiting area. We had to wait thirty minutes as she has had a drug allergy. When that was over, we next drove to the overflow area and where there were only twenty-six cars in line.


As we waited, others got in line including a bunch of registered people who were confused but the police moved in and directed them to the correct place. After they had left, we were then moved to near the entrance doors where we formed six lines of twenty-five vehicles.

About half the cars did not have any numbers, they had simply shown up and hoped for extras. After waiting there, a line of registrars moved along our vehicles and it was my turn! I had gotten the golden ticket! As we were in the second line I was elated as I was going to get the vaccination!


We both were sore at the injection site but that was all and now its just a memory. In three weeks, we will be told when to show up for our second injection. It takes several weeks before the immunity builds up and two weeks after the second injection we will be fully protected, (we got the Moderna vaccine)!

We would later learn that many of the volunteers were from the local Texas A and M Campus, including nursing students, instructors, and tech students. To these and to all the others we would like to offer a sincere thank you and our love!  Clear skies

ps During the four hour mass vaccination three to four thousand people got their first shot!

2 comments:

  1. We got both Moderna injections down here in the RIo Grande Valley and are now two weeks out. It really is a great feeling...

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  2. FANTASTIC!!!!!! We are scheduled for our second shot tomorrow. Stay safe and healthy.

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