What a day! I woke up this morning feeling like someone had run over me with a bus. Every muscle and joint in my body hurt. It was almost more than I could manage to walk to the bathroom and sit on the toilet.
I finally figured out it was the side effects from the Bivalent Covid vaccine I had yesterday afternoon. I came out to my chair and slept most of the morning. The discomfort is finally lifting a bit this evening. I don’t have much energy yet but the muscle aches are much better and the headache has quieted down a bit. The diarrhea that was active earlier today has quieted down too.
I was not expecting this reaction. When I got my fourth booster shot I had no reaction and guess I was expecting that to happen this time. Jim said he felt a bit more tired than normal but other than that he was fine.
With Jim’s help I did manage to get two loads of laundry done today. I think that is all I did today. It hurt too much to move my body. I am trying to drink extra this evening to flush whatever out of my body. Betting by tomorrow I will be back to normal.
Tomorrow I need to go to town and pick up a few groceries. I am going to a pot luck on Sunday and need a few things so I can fix some food to take. I am having some friends over Monday to help me stuff the Pioneer Bluffs Newsletter and I am fixing lunch for those that come help. I need a few things for that too.
Grateful I had nothing that had to be done today. We were going to go to the court house in Cottonwood Falls to get the title work changed on our vehicles but that can wait for another day. I also needed to get some gas for the lawn mower but that also can wait for another day.
When I had Covid in February I didn’t experience the body aches that others had talked about. I now know what it is and sure hope I don’t have to go through this again.
Sometime in October we need to go get our flu shots. We usually don’t take them but something is telling me I need to do so this year. I wasn’t brave enough to get a flu shot at the same time I got the Covid booster. When I have forgotten a bit about this reaction I will get the flu shot.
Grateful my symptoms are easing quickly, grateful for a day of rest, and grateful Jim escaped this suffering.