i can't beleive i'll die before becoming a frog

[the_siobhan]

I was bitching at a friend about how staying not-depressed is just too much fucking work. Eat properly, get enough sleep, exercise, yoga, go out in the sun - it just feels like it would be so much easier to uncork a bottle and climb into it.

Which I do occasionally. For a few days. Then I go, ugh, enough of that, time to get up and I dust myself off and get on with things.

Kind of a mini-vacation from being functional, I guess.

I have remarked in the past on the fact that even though I have a really dodgy back and my doctor once told me to give up weights, I've never actually borked my back while using weights. Because when I'm using weights I'm really conscious of where my body is and what my muscles are doing. No, I bork my back when I turn over in my sleep or something stupid like that. Which I did a couple of weeks ago. Doing stretches didn't seem to be helping, so I made my first chiropractic appointment in over a year, going to a place that I can walk to and that seems to have a reasonable handle on screening and cleaning. It's still nerve-wracking, but I've now done it twice and have been the only person entering or exiting.

My stress is not helped by the fact that the vaccine roll-out in my province has been such an utter cluster-fuck. By the end of the weekend I was on four separate waiting lists, and I could potentially add myself to two more I heard about today. These are not actual appointments, mind you and I have no idea if they even have vaccines. Just waiting lists that are getting passed around by word of mouth and maybe they'll call me if they have some and my name comes up on the big spinning wheel with the flashing lights.

FYI, If you live in Toronto, somebody has started compiling info here. As of right now, it looks like it's pretty up to date. https://covidinfo.substack.com/

Another Toronto person pointed me at this site, and I signed up to be a guinea pig for a new vaccine. They did call me back so I'm headed to Brampton tomorrow morning to hopefully get a shot. We'll see how it goes. I'll be curious to see if I can tell if it's an active vaccine vs a placebo, since most of the people I know have had at least some reaction.

On the plus side my seeds are sprouting very energetically and it gets a little warmer every day, so I've been going outside and digging in the dirt whenever I can squirrel a few minutes away from work and appointments.

So it goes.

Comments

[jo]

You have to go to Brampton for your vaccine trial? Yeesh. The place I'm going to tomorrow is in the CNIB building on Bayview south of Lawrence. Still means three buses for me to get there, mind you...

I was watching some of PM Trudeau's press conference yesterday, and one reporter was desperately trying to get the PM to lash out at some of the provinces re: how they're doing vaccines. He wouldn't do that, but did say that based on the shipments they'd be getting in coming weeks, every adult who wanted a vaccine would be fully vaccinated by the end of summer. Fully vaccinated, not "at least one shot" which is what he had previously said. I still don't see Ontario being anywhere near that meeting that target unless something major changes and soon.

[sabotabby]

Thanks for the substack link. It's wild trying to get a shot.

[chasing_silver]

It drives me nuts that vaccines are THIS hard to get and now we're in a stay-at-home order. Sigh. There's no need for this and yet the Ford government wants to treat us like we're in a concert line. Meanwhile over 1.5 million vaccines are sitting in freezers and not going into arms because ... why?

[the_siobhan]

My biggest fear is that vaccines are getting tossed out because so many of the government-run appointments are going empty.

At least the hospitals seem to be actually injecting people, but their reservation systems are swamped.

[greylock]

Kind of a mini-vacation from being functional, I guess.

That is a good way of looking at it!

I have remarked in the past on the fact that even though I have a really dodgy back and my doctor once told me to give up weights, I've never actually borked my back while using weights.

I am guessing you have seen a physio? I'm not an expert, but I have heard it helps.

My stress is not helped by the fact that the vaccine roll-out in my province has been such an utter cluster-fuck. By the end of the weekend I was on four separate waiting lists,

I don't know if you're in a special category or not (either there, or here), but... our government has absolutely fucked ours. Admittedly, we don't need it, but we were promised 4 mill vaccinations by now, we are at about 800,000 first shots. of the AZ. We don't have a choice.

Now, as long as we keep the borders closed, we don't need a swift roll-out, there are others who need it more. but there is so much pressure to OPEN THE BORDERS, I'm concerned about that.

I don't expect to get my first shot before Xmas.

signed up to be a guinea pig for a new vaccine

Which vax? I can't tell. Because if it's one of the Chinese or Russian ones, I'd nope the fuck out. I have no idea where Canada on the others, or how yours are regulated.

21 days apart seems quicker than most.

Anecdotally, what I see online is that, from the US, with the Moderna/Phizher, if you have COVID, the first dose sucks, if not, it's the second, but the level of suckage varies from mild to *ugh*, but better than the alternative.

[the_siobhan]

It's this one
https://www.biospace.com/article/medicago-successfully-produces-a-viable-vaccine-candidate-for-covid-19/


So far no reaction.

[greylock]

Interesting, I hadn't realised there was a Canadian option, much less one developed so early.

[Meanwhile, here, our govt has decided maybe the AZ vax isn't the way to go]