Medical Update

For those who wondered...

No news on physical therapy for the foot. Foot is the same. I am wearing the brace and taking the anti-inflammatory pills. I am still staying off of it as much as possible. Still having some pain in it, a kind of weird ache, at times. I have had issues with that ankle since the 80s and the ankle really does not like the brace.

Because nothing was happening with the PT, as folks who read my ramblings here already know, Scott and I got Covid boosted Tuesday afternoon. The Novavax shot worked me over some and hardly touched Scott at all. We spent Wednesday afternoon and evening watching television and resting. By Thursday, we both were up and at it again though not feeling too well. Yesterday we both were our normal selves. The same is true today. I think we are through it. Compared to what has happened before with the Pfizer and Moderna shots, this was nothing.

I was doing well enough Thursday and yesterday that I got back to work on my story idea for the anthology, Santa Rage: 12 Tales of Murder and Mayhem. This call is from Jay Hartman and Misti Media with a deadline of September 30th. The story is now fully written. I have to polish and tweak, format correctly, and send it off.

My plan and hope is to get it off early next week.

Once that happens, I really have got to come up with an idea for the next Sisters in Crime North Dallas anthology. My story, Whatever Happened To…?, is in the one that came out earlier this year. I would like to make it back to back appearances. Deadline is the end of October and this dude has no ideas for it at all.

Once More Into The Breech: Covid Boosted

After still no word on physical therapy after a week, I made the decision to get Covid boosted this afternoon. I have at least a half dozen medical appointments next month and that includes multi hour cardiac testing deals twice in October. Since the Covid shot normally puts me in bed for anywhere from a week to two weeks, it seemed best to get on with it. Otherwise, it would be early November, sometime after 11/3 and Noir at the Bar, and that runs me into the holidays. Beyond the fact that anything else could happen in the meantime. 

So, midafternoon, we went down to our local Kroger. Scott and I went with the Novavax shot this time. Supposed to have less side effects for most folks than the previous ones. Also supposed to have slightly better protection, especially for those of us with weak immune systems. Hoping to finally unlock my latent Super Hero genes. Not that I want to sling webs around, or run really fast either, but being able to move objects with my mind would be handy.

Probably, instead, I will get at least a week in bed, unable to do anything, and being very sick. Hopefully, nothing close to two weeks and nothing like the Shingles shot that tried very hard to make me visit a hospital for a few days. That shot was a brutal two weeks of absolute hell. I think I would have been hospitalized if the places were not all full at the time. I really thought I was done. 

We were the only ones masked and there was at least a half dozen folks at the pharmacy all coughing their lungs out. Not dry coughs either. They are all doing those heavy wet ones that sound really bad. 

Anyway, I have been shotted once again. Hopefully, it does not do too much to me as I am actually writing again. I am working on a story idea for the anthology, Santa Rage: 12 Tales of Murder and Mayhem. This call is from Jay Hartman and Misti Media with a deadline of September 30th. So, I have two weeks to get it fully written, polished, and off to be considered. Fingers crossed that I make it.

Update: Covid Booster Blasted

As I wrote here Sunday, both Scott and I got our Covid booster Friday just after noon. 

Scott is pretty much back to his normal self.

I am still in rough shape, though I might be a little better. Hopefully, I am by the worst of this shot and will feel better tomorrow. 

Covid Booster Blasted

About noon Friday, after a wasted trip to the City of Garland Health Department that had no Covid booster shots for those with insurance (no warning on their website either) we got boosted at our local Kroger, where we get our meds down at NW Highway and Plano Road. They had the Pfizer version which is what we had last November the last time we had to do this. 

Both Scott and I got it in the left arm and by Friday evening the arms were hurting pretty good. Same yesterday, with my arm also doing a little bit of swelling. Overall, we did not feel too bad though, we both were feeling generally a little rough. 

While Scott has been pretty much the same today, I would like the freight train that drove over me arrested for attempted murder. This time has walloped me far more than the last time. I am wiped out and, since mid afternoon, doing the part time fever and part time chills portion of the program..

I have spent the day in bed watching football and a couple of other things. I am siting up using the laptop now and am not doing that very well. 

But, no matter hard this things churns me, it is worth it to cut the risk that damn Covid raises. 

If this runs the course of last time, tomorrow will be a wipe out, and Tuesday might be a slight improvement. Time will tell.