Moonset at the last of the dark. Sleep from one to seven. Early to bed, early to rise. . . . makes one sleepy all day long, lol! Tomorrow, Palm Sunday, so the year rushes on.
The Supreme Court’s coming war with Joe Biden, explained [Click] “President Biden will hardly be the first president to face lawsuits challenging his administration’s regulations. But he is likely to be the first president since Roosevelt to face a judiciary that’s so eager to rein in agency power.”
Heroes to zeros: how German perfectionism wrecked its Covid vaccine drive. [Click] “The same thoroughness that made Angela Merkel’s government a pandemic role model is now holding it back.” I am reminded of the stories in recent years of how the German railway system has been deteriorating, both physically and in terms of service.
Salvager raises hopes of clearing Suez canal by early next week [Click] A representative of Smit Salvage, the famous Dutch company, pointed out what I should think is obvious: that merely trying to pull the ship free could tear the hull apart. (He stated it less dramatically.) It seems odd to me that they are not racing to build temporary cofferdams north and south of the ship so they can raise the local water level and refloat it that way. Maybe there are logistical difficulties with that approach that cannot easily be solved.
The Bombs That Never Went Off [Click] “The fall of the Soviet Union left behind a grim legacy of nuclear danger. After 30 years, the last weapons-grade uranium has been eliminated.”
Hallo Campers! Couldn't post until now because I wasn't near my computer. I was upstairs convalescing after yesterday's second Pfizer shot. After the first shot, Wil had more arm pain than I. So I half expected my symptoms from the second shot to be less than his were, two days before me. Ah, how wrong I was. Here’s my reality... 1:17pm, I got my second shot. 6 hrs post vaccine, with no symptoms, I did 6 miles on the hideaway elliptical (it’s kind of like running); I usually do 10 miles but thought maybe I’d just do 8 this time. Planned to do the other 2 miles after dinner. However!... 8 hours post vaccine, when I got back on the elliptical to do more, the upper part of my thighs hurt, so I stopped immediately. Slowly, over the next few hours, I began to feel achy in my joints and my hands grew ice cold. I went to bed but couldn’t get warm. When I yawned, my whole body would tremble. I couldn’t help laughing because it was all so strange. Wil went down and turned on our parlour stove (the heat pumps were already working) and loaded me up with blankets. 3:47am: fever of 99.4°F and body aches, plus a mild headache. 8:30am: feeling less achy, temperature 100.4°F. By comparison, Wil was simply felt a little sensitive and had a mild headache. 29 hours post shot and I still have a fever. But I have finally gotten enough sleep to get up for awhile. I actually feel best when the temperature is around 100 than when it's around 99. Not enjoying this, but at least I know what it is, and that it will go away soon (tomorrow?), and I'm stoked that it seems I have a worthy immune system after all...!
Sweet thanks, puddle. Hoping so. I did tell my nurse hero that I would take whatever comes, because I need to be able to see my grands again! I really didn't expect to have a worse reaction than Wil's. And such a quirky one, at that.
Well, someone has to be exceptional! I had something like that happen once with a flu shot-- a new strain was expected and included in the vaccine. I think that is the strongest response to the Pfizer vaccine I have heard of. The thing that strikes me as surpassing weird is that those "flu-like" symptoms occur when the number of antibody and antigen particles are equal in number. When the antibodies develop overwhelming superiority in numbers, the symptoms go away. You should be just fine tomorrow.
Moonset at the last of the dark. Sleep from one to seven. Early to bed, early to rise. . . . makes one sleepy all day long, lol! Tomorrow, Palm Sunday, so the year rushes on.
ReplyDeleteThe Supreme Court’s coming war with Joe Biden, explained [Click] “President Biden will hardly be the first president to face lawsuits challenging his administration’s regulations. But he is likely to be the first president since Roosevelt to face a judiciary that’s so eager to rein in agency power.”
ReplyDeleteHeroes to zeros: how German perfectionism wrecked its Covid vaccine drive. [Click] “The same thoroughness that made Angela Merkel’s government a pandemic role model is now holding it back.” I am reminded of the stories in recent years of how the German railway system has been deteriorating, both physically and in terms of service.
ReplyDeleteSalvager raises hopes of clearing Suez canal by early next week [Click] A representative of Smit Salvage, the famous Dutch company, pointed out what I should think is obvious: that merely trying to pull the ship free could tear the hull apart. (He stated it less dramatically.) It seems odd to me that they are not racing to build temporary cofferdams north and south of the ship so they can raise the local water level and refloat it that way. Maybe there are logistical difficulties with that approach that cannot easily be solved.
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Hallo Campers!
ReplyDeleteCouldn't post until now because I wasn't near my computer. I was upstairs convalescing after yesterday's second Pfizer shot. After the first shot, Wil had more arm pain than I. So I half expected my symptoms from the second shot to be less than his were, two days before me. Ah, how wrong I was. Here’s my reality...
1:17pm, I got my second shot.
6 hrs post vaccine, with no symptoms, I did 6 miles on the hideaway elliptical (it’s kind of like running); I usually do 10 miles but thought maybe I’d just do 8 this time. Planned to do the other 2 miles after dinner. However!...
8 hours post vaccine, when I got back on the elliptical to do more, the upper part of my thighs hurt, so I stopped immediately.
Slowly, over the next few hours, I began to feel achy in my joints and my hands grew ice cold. I went to bed but couldn’t get warm. When I yawned, my whole body would tremble. I couldn’t help laughing because it was all so strange.
Wil went down and turned on our parlour stove (the heat pumps were already working) and loaded me up with blankets.
3:47am: fever of 99.4°F and body aches, plus a mild headache.
8:30am: feeling less achy, temperature 100.4°F.
By comparison, Wil was simply felt a little sensitive and had a mild headache.
29 hours post shot and I still have a fever. But I have finally gotten enough sleep to get up for awhile. I actually feel best when the temperature is around 100 than when it's around 99. Not enjoying this, but at least I know what it is, and that it will go away soon (tomorrow?), and I'm stoked that it seems I have a worthy immune system after all...!
If I still feel like this tomorrow, I'm going to take a pain reliever.
DeleteIce Out on the bay we sail on! This doesn't usually happen until some time in April...!
ReplyDeleteIt was warm here today; like early summer.
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Recovered 15,461(83%)
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Ooh, listener! Feel better. Soon! xox
ReplyDeleteSweet thanks, puddle. Hoping so.
DeleteI did tell my nurse hero that I would take whatever comes, because I need to be able to see my grands again! I really didn't expect to have a worse reaction than Wil's. And such a quirky one, at that.
Well, someone has to be exceptional! I had something like that happen once with a flu shot-- a new strain was expected and included in the vaccine. I think that is the strongest response to the Pfizer vaccine I have heard of. The thing that strikes me as surpassing weird is that those "flu-like" symptoms occur when the number of antibody and antigen particles are equal in number. When the antibodies develop overwhelming superiority in numbers, the symptoms go away. You should be just fine tomorrow.
DeleteJust lucky I guess. Ha.
DeleteI'm finally at the point where I have more antibodies than antigens! And I sure am glad!
Would I do it again? Absolutely!
Neanderthals heard like us, implying they spoke like us. [Click] Unlike chimpanzees, for instance.
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