Two Kinds of Injections, A Workout, and a Riot

  [Note: this is another blog based on my weekly emails to my family on the mainland.] 

1/9/21

The new Electoral College

Well, after the excitement of last week’s fireworks and wild celebrations of the New Year (yawn), I really thought this was going to be a boring week.  Wrong, wrong, wrong. Right? I don’t have much to say, other than (a) months ago I predicted violence if Trump lost, and (b) THIS is what it means to “make America great again?”  Really?  

Ok, back to something more hopeful and positive.  Our island has been moving very well on vaccinating people. Most of the hospital staff should be done by the end of the month including community health care providers, like physicians, dentists, and their staffs. Most of the residents  of nursing homes will have also received their first shots, along with workers at those facilities.  According to our Lieutenant Governor, who is a physician and is in charge of organizing the pandemic response, the vaccine will be available to people in our group by March and to the general public by May.  Of course it will take longer to inoculate everyone who wants it, probably until late summer or fall. But since we're in the geezer group, Karen and I could have both shots completed by the end of March.  We’ll see, but it seems that our state, unlike a number of others, has handled this whole thing very well.  We just received 83 k doses of the Moderna Vaccine and so we have a good start on the number needed to complete the program.  Success will depend on how quickly mainland companies can manufacture and distribute the vaccines.

Speaking of injections, today I will see my retina doctor, and maybe have another eyeball jab.  If so, it will have been 3 months since the last one, which is very, very, positive.  It will all depend on the scans and the rest of the exam to see if there is any fluid building up again.  My acuity in that eye seems to be stable, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t starting to slip. The real test is the laser scan that shows what’s going on below the retina surface.  Anyway, I’m more that happy to get the injection if there is even the slightest sign of trouble.  I’ll let you know.

We skipped our weekly workout last week because of the discombobulation of the holidays, but we went to Planet Fitness on Thursday and had a good session.  Very few people in the gym and everyone was masked and wiping down the equipment before and after using it.  The cost of skipping a week is clear today in terms of muscle complaints.  But I regard that as a good kind of discomfort.  

Our Christmas decorations will come down today and tomorrow.  Now all I have to do is store them again somewhere........

Take care, everyone.  Keep clawing your way toward that light at the end of the tunnel.  IT IS REAL.