First Covid vaccine dose done!

 Our appointment today for our first vaccine dose was early, 8:20 this morning.  We got to Wonderland Mall (where they were giving the vaccines) around 7:40 and already there was a short socially-distanced line.  We probably waited for around 10 minutes before the line moved right into the room where the shots were being given.  Everything was well set up except for where they were giving the shots because there were too many people in that room and plenty of times it was almost impossible to not get close to other people.  We got the Pfizer vaccine and maybe, with the conditions the vaccine needs to remain in, there really is no way to spread people out more.  Once out of that room, we had to sit in another room for 10 minutes before being able to leave.  From getting out of our car to getting back in, it took a total of 40 minutes.  Not bad, really.  Our next appointment is February 4th for the second dose.

I failed to mention in the previous post that when we signed up for these appointments and Guillermo immediately received a confirmation email and I did not, it made me think that I had somehow signed up wrong.  So I immediately went back into the site but by then there were only 3 available days left for appointments.  Luckily I was able to secure ANOTHER appointment for January 16th.  Like before, though, no confirmation email ever arrived.    

So today as we moved along through the process, I asked several times of the people working there if I could turn my second appointment over to my mother.  Each time I was told to ask "at the next station".  After leaving that final room, I decided to try one more time and ask about giving my extra appointment to my mother.  The lady that I ended up talking to was very helpful and said she would try to get approval for that.  I gave her my phone number and she said she would call me as soon as she knew either way.  And she DID call, as we were driving home.  She said that it had been approved for my mother to come in for the vaccine on Saturday.  So, Saturday, Mom and I will be going to get HER vaccine!