The most interesting thing I've done in the last two years is to participate in the Pfizer clinical trial.<\/p>\n
When covid started, I signed up for just about every clinical trial you can think of. For example, I had to interact with an app daily as to my physical well being. I had to send blood samples several times to a lab. I still interact with an app that tracks both covid and the flu.<\/p>\n
I was vaccinated for covid through the Pfizer trial on September 22. I have to read a 22-page document, which was summarized verbally before they gave me the shot. We were originally double-blinded, meaning we were told we wouldn't know our vaccine status for two years. I had to give a blood sample before being vaccinated and again shortly after.<\/p>\n
Being double-blinded upset a lot of bioethicists and my endocrinologist. More on that in a bit.<\/p>\n
They have me check in with an app weekly and have given me a covid test to take and send in if I do get covid.<\/p>\n
I got my second shot on 10\/12.<\/p>\n
Since the double-blind upset so many medical professionals, we were unblinded at the time we would normally get vaccinated and given our vaccines then. I was lucky as I had actually been given the vaccine.<\/p>\n
I was so relieved to find out. I suffer from allergies and am afraid a lot of the time that it might be something else.<\/p>\n
I am a huge believer in vaccines. Every vaccine I'm eligible for I've gotten — none of them completely prevent disease, but they make the symptoms less deadly, or in the case of shingles less painful. <\/p>\n
I will say that it can be hard to recommend the vaccine, anytime anyone suffers side effects — which I never do — I cringe. <\/p>\n
I was given the opportunity to participate in the booster trial but wasn't able to participate as I had recently taken steroids. <\/p>\n
I had to go back in for a blood draw, this year on September 27, and I got my booster shot at the same time.<\/p>\n
I still check in weekly, with an app. I'm still supposed to contact them if I test positive and send in my covid test. They gave me a new kit the last time I was there.<\/p>\n
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