I sure hope that wasn't a mistake
Oct. 26th, 2020 12:45 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
dreamsharkAfter dithering about it for months I finally ended up going into my local clinic for no really urgent reason at the absolute height of the coronavirus infection in Minnesota. *sigh* I certainly would have been fine without those annual labs, but I finally gave in and scheduled them to coincide with the flu shot. But it was so fucking hard to get a flu shot scheduled that in the 3 weeks that I had to wait for an open slot the infection rate in Minnesota literally doubled. If it hadn't been so difficult to get the appointment in the first place I would have cancelled. They couldn't even guarantee that they would have the high-dose vaccine that my doctor ordered.
Despite having the shot scheduled for a very specific time I had to wait a full half hour in the waiting room, which made me very unhappy. It was not crowded, but not empty either. At least a dozen people came through that waiting room while I was sitting there (and it was not a high-ceilinged room like a supermarket with a huge air volume). Everybody was masked and distanced and nobody seemed sick, but it still made me nervous.
At least they DID have the high-dose flu shot in stock. I would've been really annoyed if I had to jump through all those hoops to get the same one I could have gotten with much less fanfare at any old pharmacy. And the procedures themselves were quick and painless; the lab tech drawing blood hit the vein on the first try, which does not always happen, and the shot didn't hurt at all.
Despite having the shot scheduled for a very specific time I had to wait a full half hour in the waiting room, which made me very unhappy. It was not crowded, but not empty either. At least a dozen people came through that waiting room while I was sitting there (and it was not a high-ceilinged room like a supermarket with a huge air volume). Everybody was masked and distanced and nobody seemed sick, but it still made me nervous.
At least they DID have the high-dose flu shot in stock. I would've been really annoyed if I had to jump through all those hoops to get the same one I could have gotten with much less fanfare at any old pharmacy. And the procedures themselves were quick and painless; the lab tech drawing blood hit the vein on the first try, which does not always happen, and the shot didn't hurt at all.
