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Boosted!
Last week I saw in the news that the CDC and FDA had approved a second round of COVID booster shots for Humans Of A Certain Age who also happen to have high-risk medical conditions. And even though it’s been behaving a lot better since I retired — my asthma is my golden ticket to another booster shot.
I have friends on both sides of this debate. I understand how frightening it all can be. So much information — so much data — so many opinions. And so much fear.
I was a nurse for over twenty-six years. I was rarely ill. Even though back in the day nurses were encouraged to come to work even when we were sick. I always made the joke that I couldn’t just call out Dead from my OR position — I had to call out Cold And Dead. Because as long as a nurse was warm — she had a job to do.
Initially, I decided to get vaccinated because the fear of COVID killing me was real. I had lived all of 2020 in relative isolation. I was sent to work from home as a case manager in mid-March and there I stayed until I went back to clean out my desk on the day I retired in November. I had watched patients die — not from their cancer — but from COVID. I had lost The Irishman and more than one friend had spent time in an ICU waiting to turn the corner. My young and perfectly healthy daughter developed Long Covid after she, her husband, and All The…
