Vaccination Day!

 


On Thursday, I was just looking at this view and wishing I could go for my daily lunch time walk. The heat these days is making it impossible to go out for an afternoon walk anymore. The heat is just so insane and my subconscious just knows it hasn’t felt heat like this ever before. It feels like the heat can actually kill you, these days, if you stay out long enough. It’s no joke.

Suddenly, the LGU texted me that I was to scheduled for the vaccine the next day. I got my first dose today!


Thank you Government of Muntinlupa! Well I couldn’t resist this photo wall.

After more than a year of living in fear of the virus, things are slowly starting to get better now that different LGUs have rolled out their vaccine programs. My most vulnerable family members have gotten vaccinated already and it’s a huge relief, knowing that COVID won’t be able to affect them anymore. It’s been a couple of hours and it still hasn’t sunk in that the vaccine I’ve been waiting for for more than a year is now inside my body.

I registered at the Muntinlupa vaccine website in early April and was texted yesterday that my vaccine schedule was today. Had to drop everything to make it, of course. The vaccination site was in a large mall and it was a very fast process. I was done in exactly an hour. There were five stations to go through, and while there were so many people in line, it was fast because there were lots of staff manning each station. Before I knew it I was done. It took my other family members four hours, in contrast, at other vaccination sites. This one I went to was one of the mega sites of Muntinlupa City.

Things I can’t wait to do once we go back to normal: watch a movie, watch a play, eat at a restaurant without fear, travel. Things I wish we can retain after we go back to normal: Friday nights in. Saturday nights in. Zoom for meetings.

Extremely grateful for the vaccine! 

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