another jab in the arm
Nov. 27th, 2025 08:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
archersangelgot another COVID shot on tue. & just finding out if we could get the shot was a bit of an adventure.
first we called our insurance company to make sure it's still covered. they said it was not covered though wal-mart for whatever reason. but it would be covered trough our doctor's office, CVS & the pharmacy at the local want-to-be fancy grocery store.
called our doctor's office & they are not offering the COVID vaccine at all any more (i guess it's not that popular). so my brother called CVS in target (the closer of 2 in the area) & you can't get a person on the phone, so he left a voicemail asking about the availability of the COVID vaccine. he got a call back within an hour saying they did have it and no appointment was needed. it's pfizer, which breaks our streak of moderna shots. which was bound to happen sooner or later.
we went into the CVS at target late in the late-morning, went through the process of registering with CVS and filling out the paperwork for the shot. the shot itself was just a small pinch/poke (my brother said it was the same for him) & we got regular band-aids, not the inject-safe barrier bandage that wal-mart was using. neither one of us bled much from the injection.
both of us had injection site/arm pain, my brother felt a bit like he had a cold that night, but it wasn't as bad as it was in '23 & '24. the next day (wed.) i had a runny nose, but i don't know if it was connected.
i only had some minor itching on my upper arm. not the big rash i usually get 48-ish hours after the shot a.k.a COVID arm. either i'm getting used to these things, or the moderna ones were the issue all along.
first we called our insurance company to make sure it's still covered. they said it was not covered though wal-mart for whatever reason. but it would be covered trough our doctor's office, CVS & the pharmacy at the local want-to-be fancy grocery store.
called our doctor's office & they are not offering the COVID vaccine at all any more (i guess it's not that popular). so my brother called CVS in target (the closer of 2 in the area) & you can't get a person on the phone, so he left a voicemail asking about the availability of the COVID vaccine. he got a call back within an hour saying they did have it and no appointment was needed. it's pfizer, which breaks our streak of moderna shots. which was bound to happen sooner or later.
we went into the CVS at target late in the late-morning, went through the process of registering with CVS and filling out the paperwork for the shot. the shot itself was just a small pinch/poke (my brother said it was the same for him) & we got regular band-aids, not the inject-safe barrier bandage that wal-mart was using. neither one of us bled much from the injection.
both of us had injection site/arm pain, my brother felt a bit like he had a cold that night, but it wasn't as bad as it was in '23 & '24. the next day (wed.) i had a runny nose, but i don't know if it was connected.
i only had some minor itching on my upper arm. not the big rash i usually get 48-ish hours after the shot a.k.a COVID arm. either i'm getting used to these things, or the moderna ones were the issue all along.
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Date: Nov. 28th, 2025 10:02 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: Dec. 1st, 2025 05:26 pm (UTC)My dad and I got ours back in September at CVS, and the only thing we noticed was a sore arm. Nowhere as bad as the second shot in the very first series. That one had my lymph nodes under my arm inflamed and I didn't want to move my arm for a day or two.