{"id":33109,"date":"2021-01-25T00:01:57","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:01:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbarafalconernewhall.com\/?p=33109"},"modified":"2021-01-25T00:01:57","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T08:01:57","slug":"we-got-our-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/we-got-our-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"We Got Our Shots! Sheltering at Home Week 46"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We got our shots. It was the Moderna vaccine. The card I’m holding entitles me to the second shot in four weeks. I’m wincing, but I barely felt the shot. Photo by Jon Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Moderna Vaccine — We Got Our Shots. Sheltering at Home Week 46<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jon and I were of one mind as we planned our day\u00a0last Friday morning.<\/p>\n

We would be on time for our coronavirus vaccinations.<\/p>\n

We had appointments in Antioch 37 miles away. There would be some driving to do, but we would be there. On time.<\/p>\n

It felt a lot like going for a job interview: if you don’t show up on time, forget it.<\/p>\n

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Jon checked in here. Later we would wait in this room for fifteen minutes, in case of a reaction to the vaccine. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

But this was bigger than the do-or-die job interviews of our youth. Way bigger.<\/p>\n

This really was do or die.<\/p>\n

We got there early. To kill time, we bought sandwiches across the parking lot and sat outdoors on restaurant chairs chained to a table.<\/p>\n

Back at the medical building, we answered some questions, got our shots, and were given follow-up appointments for February.<\/p>\n

A Good Week<\/strong><\/h5>\n

Things were looking good that week. An Inauguration Day to celebrate. Shots in two arms. And our first meal at a restaurant in almost a year.<\/p>\n

Jon and I might yearn for a nice restaurant dinner with friends, but we also know that there are people all over the world in need of something to eat. My thoughts about that at “World Hunger — Is It Up to Me to Fix It?”<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n

We haven’t seen our grandchildren in the flesh in over a year. But we do our best via Skype. Read about that at “Grandparenting Via Webcam.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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A shipment of Moderna vaccine arrived as Jon and I waited for our appointments outside the Sutter Health building in Antioch, California. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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My dose of the Moderna vaccine awaited me. Photo by Barbara Newhall<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Things were looking good last week. We watched the Inauguration. We had our first restaurant meal in nearly a year. And we got our shots.\u00a0 Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,41],"tags":[2179,29,2427,82,2428,2429,2430,2431],"class_list":["post-33109","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-a-case-of-the-human-condition","category-sheltering-at-home-chronicles","tag-coronavirus","tag-jon","tag-moderna-vaccine","tag-on-the-funny-side","tag-sutter-health","tag-vaccinations","tag-vaccine-roll-out","tag-we-got-our-shots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33109","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33109"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33109\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33109"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33109"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/server.stagingweb3.net\/barbarafalconernewhall\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33109"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}