I’ve had my vaccination today. Feel like I’ve been punched in the arm, but otherwise ok.

I do feel nervous about essentially, popping something back in my body, that I believe 100% had tried to kill me, physically and mentally, not so long ago, quite nerve-wracking. It’s been a hard slog getting back to full health.

Thankfully I can say I am now, better than ever and ready for anything.

Very straightforward. I went to a car park within a local supermarket grounds. You have to wear a face mask and sanitise your hands before going in. I gave my booking reference number. Read information sheet. Someone came to speak to me.

Everything was wiped down you came into contact with. The laminated information sheets, even the chairs.

They gave me a leaflet, a card with my name and vaccine name (AstraZeneca) and batch number. I was given advice about the recent news that AstraZeneca maybe causing blood clots, mainly in younger people, but the signs to look out for just in case. (Migraine type headache and swollen legs) Then I was taken into the second tent for the vaccination.

Asked what arm I wanted it in. I picked right, as I sleep on my left.

Then I had to wait 15 minutes to make sure I wasn’t having any immediate reaction.

My second dose is on the 25th June.

It’s amazing isn’t it. Probably the greatest humanitarian discovery in my life time. If someone hadn’t fathomed out this vaccine for us. We couldn’t stop the virus, and deaths. While it’s not going to get back to ‘normal’ anytime soon. We can be hopeful to get back some of our freedoms we all enjoyed in the past.

If you think. It wasn’t long ago people were dying of diseases and conditions we think nothing of or worry about today.