Second poke

 

The five of us who are 16 and older got our second dose of the Pfizer vaccine today. We're taking our chances that we (me and Matt) won't both feel too icky tomorrow. :) Otherwise Rose is going to have a busy day! Above you can see us waiting the mandatory 15 minutes to make sure we don't pass out!

Gillette purchased and remodeled a dingy old one-level warehouse two blocks from their main campus for a vaccination clinic for their patients and all family caregivers of their patients. One of the nurses there today said, "Oh! You're Mira's family!" She's never actually worked with Mira, but, in her words, "You can't work at Gillette without knowing Mira." I guess I knew that Mira-girl was a big deal, but didn't realize what a big deal she is over there! 

Owen, actually, got to do this outing on his first day out of sixteen days of isolation due to his friend (the one family that he's spent time with over the last year!) getting a postive COVID test. Owen got to come home and go right to his room - we'd already removed Krassimir's things and set up the large pack n play that we use for him when we travel in the playroom in the new basement - and that's where he spent the next sixteen days. Well, there, or on the soccer field - I told him as long as no one else was on the fields he could go outside and kick his ball around. When, a few days later, Owen took a mail-in saliva test and got the positive result the next day, he was glad that he could at least now have his friend that he got it from join him on the soccer field! Owen went through the whole thing with no symptoms. Possibly because he's young and resilient, and possibly because he'd had his first dose of the vaccine already. Anyway, he then had ten days from the test, which ended up falling out to a total of sixteen days of isolation. Not exactly how he'd planned to spend his spring break OR the first two weeks of his new part-time job! But he made it through, and is now good to go. We were sure glad we got him stuck away so soon, because he was isolated before what they consider his "contagious period" (two days before he tested b/c he was asymptomatic) so the rest of us could go about our business as usual.

So that's the excitement around here, lately! (Tomorrow the completed Bobbette shows up - that's some *real* excitement!!)