{"id":62,"date":"2021-01-26T14:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/what-vaccination-means-to-me\/"},"modified":"2021-01-26T14:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T14:42:40","slug":"what-vaccination-means-to-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/what-vaccination-means-to-me\/","title":{"rendered":"What vaccination means to me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this on other people&#8217;s posts but finding out that I&#8217;ve had the vaccine since September \/ October is a huge relief.<\/p>\n<p>First, I&#8217;ve managed to not get covid by masking, social distancing, and washing my hands. I&#8217;ve traveled to Oklahoma, East Texas, and Glen Rose. I get my nails done weekly, I go to Nordstrom&#8217;s for lunch, and a few other restaurants. I go shopping. I go to the gym, but when they got really bad about not wearing a mask, I froze my membership again.<br \/>BUT, there was a little voice in my head, wondering if I am doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>That little voice is gone now. It&#8217;s very freeing.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, I am still wearing a mask, but I&#8217;m back at the gym. I&#8217;m still social distancing, but I&#8217;ll admit to getting a hug last week and it felt really good. Second hug since March.<\/p>\n<p>When I wake up stiff and congested, I no longer wonder if I have covid.<br \/>Yes, I know that the science isn&#8217;t proven yet whether or not, I can catch it and spread it BUT I didn&#8217;t catch it and spread it before I was vaccinated or before I knew I was vaccinated.<\/p>\n<p>What knowing I was vaccinated does is let me know I was doing the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s freeing. Even if I still wear a mask, keep my distance, and wash my hands.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve said this on other people&#8217;s posts but finding out that I&#8217;ve had the vaccine since September \/ October is a huge relief. First, I&#8217;ve managed to not get covid by masking, social distancing, and washing my hands. I&#8217;ve traveled to Oklahoma, East Texas, and Glen Rose. I get my nails done weekly, I go [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}