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SO HAPPY I COULD CRY. JUST HEARD WE ARE GETTING VACCINATED NEXT WEEK

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June 18, 2021 · 4:27 pm

18 responses to “SO HAPPY I COULD CRY. JUST HEARD WE ARE GETTING VACCINATED NEXT WEEK”

  1. thatdvorak
    June 18, 2021 at 9:38 pm

    Congrats! It really seems to make a difference for the personal well-being. Sadly, I do not speak from own experience. Yet.

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  2. Joan Rosasco
    June 18, 2021 at 11:09 pm

    Wonderful news!! You will feel so much lighter! One doesn’t realize until it begins to lift what a heavy dread hung over us for more than a year.

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    • ginzaintherain
      June 19, 2021 at 1:30 pm

      That’s how I imagine it will be, actually – trying to suppress fear for so long has been really damaging. I will still wear a mask etc but I know my mental state will improve hugely.

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  3. filomena813
    June 18, 2021 at 11:11 pm

    Congrats! It left me with a feeling of being able to live and breathe again to a point.

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  5. Tara C
    June 19, 2021 at 12:02 am

    Such a relief for you, congratulations and may you have no side effects.

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  6. Robin
    June 19, 2021 at 2:28 am

    Sweet relief, huh? I hope you’ll be like Ric and me: no side effects, as in NONE, after two shots each, AstraZeneca and Moderna. We’ve had friends that have experienced mild fatigue and achiness, but knowing that they were now vaccinated and in the clear far, far offset the discomfort. I really did have a lump in my throat after both shots. Bloody grateful, we are. So happy for you and Duncan.

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    • ginzaintherain
      June 19, 2021 at 1:33 pm

      Thanks Robin. D’s is a month later (his school sensibly is doing this when the teachers are on summer break: in mine, naturally, people are expected to work even if they get the shot on a school day).

      I was so emotional yesterday.

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  7. Robin
    June 19, 2021 at 2:29 am

    Hope my message got through. Hasn’t shown up. Essentially, it was: YAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!

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    • ginzaintherain
      June 19, 2021 at 1:34 pm

      I said that so many times yesterday: in fact in the teacher’s room my immediate response was the Japanese equivalent:

      YATTA !

      Y A T T A !!!!!!!!!

      YATTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  8. emmawoolf
    June 19, 2021 at 3:03 am

    Hurrah huzzah. So happy for you. One shot or two? You will be fine. The side effects can be somewhat odd (will be interested to hear which vaccine the J-govt go for), but they are short-lived, and as we know soooo much better than the real thing. Onwards and upwards. Next post: “Which perfume to wear for my vaccine appointment?”

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  9. AmyD
    June 22, 2021 at 2:57 am

    SO happy for you, Neil! Getting the vaccine is a serious mental relief – I’m surprised at your colleagues, especially the abstainers – perhaps they need to see more people immediately around them vaccinated before taking the plunge (pun intended) themselves. To finally see friends and family again…I got mine just in time, I was really on the path to mental, physical, spiritual burnout. Still recovering, frankly, as so many of us are!

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    • ginzaintherain
      June 22, 2021 at 7:40 am

      Great to hear. The burnout you speak of is what I, like millions of others, have been feeling – the timing couldn’t be better. I can imagine the return being tentative, but I already feel different and it hasn’t even happened yet.

      Must be careful this week.

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