April 29, 2021 • 23 mins
Anney and Samantha celebrate getting vaccinated and swap stories on their experiences, hopes and fears.
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Speaker 1 (00:05):
Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't just stuff.
I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. It's Thursday,
so that means it is time for another happy hour.
(00:25):
Happy yes, and as always, drink responsibly if you choose too.
So these are just moments we like to provide where
we can have some conversations and hopefully give you a
space to relax as we approach the end of the
week or you know this whole week structure I'm not
sure about. Yeah, that could be a whole different conversation.
(00:49):
But Samantha, what are you stepping on? I have decided
to go away from alcohol today and I am going
to stick with a lovely kambucha, which is a raspberry
lemon ginger has got all the delights. It does have
quite a bit of sugar, so I'm going to slow
down on this. However, I was thinking of adding my
(01:09):
carbonated water with some lemon to it, which I'm gonna
try now she's just gotten up in the middle of
the podcast to go do that. I'm gonna do a
little a SMR to see what it sounds like. So
here we go, busy and lemony yum. That makes sense,
(01:37):
So I don't know if I've ever talked about this
on this show, but I have a real thing about
using everything up, and I don't like having things that
just sit around for a long time. So ever since
we did the Happy Hour with Holly, I've had some
cranberry juice that I'm trying to get rid of, and
then a couple Actually it was probably over a year
(01:58):
ago because of quarantine. I had a friend over and
she left this like jar of lemonade over, so I've
been trying to use those up. So I made like
a sparkling water lemonade cranberry juice with some fresh lemonade
in it. Because I'm not normally a fruit juice person. Like,
I'll drink it, but it's just like not I was
(02:19):
gonna say, that's got the artificial flavors you don't like, right,
So it's fine, But I will say I found a
bottle of rum hidden. I don't know if I meant
to hide it if it kind of fell in my
refrigerator as I was getting the stuff out to make this.
So that's exciting. Yeah, I have room. I never have room.
(02:42):
You've got some wrong congratulations. It's fuss about when I
have like I thought I'd ring out of whatever beer
that I have or saltzers or whatever, and I'm like,
I'll look at one war Yeah, it's a nice, nice
discovery surprise. It's surprise at the bottom of the bag
when you thought we're done with all the fries. That's
that is lovely. Speaking of lovely, as we record this,
(03:06):
Samantha and I are approaching our two week post second
dose vaccination period, which will mean that we are fully
vaccinated tomorrow who until we have to boosters boosters. Yeah. Yeah,
it is very exciting, and it's exciting because I feel
like a lot of my friends and family are either
(03:28):
very close to being fully vaccinated or are fully vaccinated.
I feel like for me, I'm not telling too many people,
Like I haven't done all of the photos or any
of the announcements because I like being underground and unreachable.
I like this excuse of being able to say I
can't come out. Uh, and people for the most part
(03:49):
at least understanding why I'm saying that. So, hey, y'all,
don't tell people. As you're on a podcast for finding
just saying don't tell people. Yeah, I was hoping that,
you know, by posting something it would be like, you
can go get yours absolutely. Like I want to be
(04:10):
like encouraging and all that. At the same time, I'm
kind of like, I also don't want to tell people
I can come out unless I choose to be with
that one person. I will say, I've already gotten the
invitations have started coming right, oh dear, I'm ready. I
have to and I'm starting to be like, well maybe,
(04:33):
And I will say a part of this too is
because people are so excited, including me, that I am
having people plan things way in advance, and because of
my introvertedness and my anxiety and depression in general, I
sometimes will say yes on a good day and then
the day it rises, like how do I get out
(04:54):
of this? Sure, let's normalized being able to change our
mind about hanging out. Yeah, I think. I think that's
a human experience. I think a lot of people feel
that way. And that's kind of one of the things
we talked about in our self Care episode is it's
not just saying yes to the happy hour of friends.
Is being able to say no to the happy hour
of friends when you need to. And we're not going
(05:16):
to get too much into any of this stuff in
this Happy Hour episode, but did what I mentioned. There's
been a lot of research coming out is more and
more people have gotten the vaccine and more and more
people have had it for six months about women with
pregnancy and the safety of that, which so far seems
(05:37):
all good. But we can dig into that in a
future episode. And then I didn't know about this, but
I heard from some friends and I looked it up
and totally right. But um, some women are having reactions
with their periods where they're having extreme heavy flow periods
or something. So that's something else to in too, because
(06:01):
I verified it online and it's not just anecdotal, it
is observed thing. And also I saw an article about
how some doctors are afraid that it's going to be
a summer full of st I s is everybody is
so excited to get out there and they're gonna forget everything.
(06:23):
I guess, right. I also know that there's a whole
conversation of people going out too soon. So I was
very guilty because I really wanted to go out and
even possibly exercise earlier this week, but in my mind
of like sen days a right at sendays and then
realizing the cautionary bits fourteen, So I'm like, oh man,
(06:45):
I need to wait, but that's not happening. People immediately
are getting their second dosage and a couple of days
are like, I'm going out because there are some statistics
saying that you know that after second shot of the fiser,
within a week, it's ninety percent effective, and people are
just banking on that, not realizing a Again, these are
all theories and hopefully but also the fact that we
(07:07):
don't know what your body is gonna do specifically to
what's happening. And of course people have been talking a
lot about side effects. As you were mentioning before, some
people are being knocked out for like three days. I
have a friend who literally got shingles, and apparently that's
known to happen to a few whether it's just the
resurgence of an old virus, you know, because we know
that shingles come through chickenpox, all of that stuff. Um,
(07:30):
so you never know what's going to happen with your
body and how it feels, but you definitely should do it. Yeah,
the risks are too high. Yeah, absolutely, Like having these
conversations about side effects is just being I mean, they're
very rare generally, and also, so we'll talk about this
in a little bit, but I had a really bad
(07:50):
reaction to the second shot, and I've been hesitant about
sharing it with people just because i know, like they're saying,
millions of people aren't getting your second dose because they
think if first one is enough and that it's not
worth whatever you go through with the second one. But
I'm like, but COVID though, and then there is a
pretty high uptick of people who are getting COVID after
(08:13):
even after the first shot, and that's the conversation that
needs to be having. And then the numbers are really
high right now, we're just not talking about it as much.
People are all kind of I don't know if it's
because we're focused on the vaccine and trying to get
people to get vaccinated and so that's what the focus
is on. But the numbers and statistics and the hospitalizations
are starting to rise again, and that's a concern for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
(08:35):
and we're hopefully obviously, but we're not medical experts, so
don't seek you're that type of advice from us. But
also there's bank conversations, rightfully so about being the privilege
of being in like the United States, where now we
have extra vaccines and other countries can't get them right,
(08:58):
So that's another conversation we need to be having for sure,
and the whole trying to copyright and not share. Yeah,
I think I'm too much of a socialist for those conversations.
Cement the socialist. My name is now on the list,
(09:18):
isn't because I said it? Yes, it's true. I'm sorry.
I just had a hard time when you have something
that could actually save people all of the world and
you're just being selfish. Yeah. Maybe there's some legalities that
I don't understand, but it just doesn't make sense to
me when you have something that could actually help the world. Yeah. Yeah.
(09:40):
And it was also another thing where I saw a
lot of people talking about you know, when I went
to go get it, there was a part of me
like am I going to have to pay and you don't?
And then other countries like in like the UK or
Canada like, uh, what would you care? Yeah? Yeah, think
that's really interesting too, because that is the bigger conversation
(10:02):
of like, hey, this is what health care, universal health
care would look like. You know how easy it was
just to get it done, and I have to worry
about all the pains in the paperwork. Yeah, this is
what you should be just to know that you can
save your life or be healthy not it. Yeah, as
well as the fact that, uh, you know, I tell
you that my parents are very conservative in my my
(10:24):
parents are very excited about medicare and I have been
using it and I'm very preventive stuff, and I'm very
glad they are. But in my back of my head,
I'm like, do you not understand this could have been
you the whole time. You didn't have to be in
pain and worried about what's wrong with you and not
being able to afford to find out. Yeah. Yeah, So
there's a lot of issues to entangle around all of this.
(10:49):
Probably not good for a happy hour, though, so we
thought we would just discuss our our personal experience and
feelings as we got the second desk, because we got
it on the same day, I had to maneuver in
a way to make sure to get our vaccine a
little earlier, just because I don't know if you guys
(11:11):
have read that Walgreen's Apparently when they were originally doing
the appointments, they would give you the second appointment, but
they would stretch it out so for Fiser, they recommend
it within three weeks, and uh, they would do it
for four weeks and no one understood why, and to
the point of the CDC called them out and I
was like, why are you doing this? Give them their shot.
And so when I found that out, I was like, oh,
(11:31):
let me see if I can get an appointment a
week early. Because also I was getting jealous at the
fact that people who had shots after me, we're getting
their second shoots before me. It was a little bit
of competitiveness in that route. Um, so we were able
to work it out. And because in Georgia, after the
number showed how bad we were at giving vaccines, the
(11:52):
numbers jumped very quickly when KEMP decided to pull push
the age level to sixteen. Yeah, as well as giving
people broader options to get shots. So when that happened,
all of the mass sites opened up. And by the way,
the rural areas still have a lot of extra shots
as where of course the populated urban areas had less.
(12:15):
So it's definitely interesting to see how that's worked out.
But yeah, for us, we just decided to go ahead
and get it done as soon as we could. So
I think it was like two days but after the
day that I could get a shot, but a week
earlier than when we were supposed to get our shot,
and I was like, any we're gonna be vaccinated on
the same day, and then the whole like I forgot
(12:38):
They named something specifically to fighter people who get shots
in Maderna people, but you're a Maderna girl, and I
was a finer girl. I only know one other person
who got in there. Now I have I know several
people who have gotten Maderna. And originally I wanted to
get Maderna because I was like Dr Corbett she did
some amazing things, and and you know Dolly Park, She's
(13:00):
amazing Dolly Parton. I'm there right, I mean, I'm just
saying those two things, both of those days, like, yes,
I want to be a part of their history. But
I don't know. I've heard people having different reactions to
both and your reaction and my other good friends reaction,
and I was like, oh, who also had Maderna. I
was like, maybe I don't want that madernal want, even
(13:24):
though both have side effects. Yeah, well, so Smith and
I were it was almost like a well, you don't
know what's gonna happen because we got him at the
same time. We were going to compare symptoms. And I
went to bed that night and woke up and I
was like, oh um, and probably by I would say,
(13:48):
late afternoon. The next day, I was like, oh no,
this is bad and it's stick around for like five
to seven days. It was bad for three days. And
when I say bad, it was bad, right. But I
know you don't believe me, Smapa, but I've been told
that that means I have a robust immune system, and
I'm running with that. You keep that. I've said it
(14:10):
like this when my parents would tell me when kids
would pick on me for being Asians, instead of saying
that people are racist, they were just like they're jealous
because they were so pretty. I'm like that, that's not
how that works. But okay, I don't know how I
feel about that comparison. You're very cute and ready m
(14:33):
but no, yeah, I believe that. I think I was
very surprised because between the two of us, your immune
system seems to be a little better in the sense
of like you can eat almost anything and you're okay
as well. If I eat something, I'm not like, I
don't I don't have a sense of stomach, but I
will be more affective than you are typically what I've seen.
(14:56):
But you also are the one you get the random
illnesses that I'm like, how did you get both of
these things? What happened? Yeah? I feel like I haven't
been six since I mean god many years, so but
when I do get sick, I get like the very
(15:16):
very severe how did you get this? Like you have
to be quarantined levels? Yeah, like this is not my
first time being quarantined, it's actually of my third time.
But because of that, it was kind of funny, like
I was miserable, but I was like, wow, I forgot
the bloody can do this to you? Which is I'm
very lucky that I never get sick. But I said, man,
(15:39):
everything burns. What is this? The level of giggles, not
because you were suffering. I was very sad, but the
back and forth of you like I'm sweating, I'm so cold,
I am drenched, I can't move, everything hurts, uh, but
I'm working. Like that was I did ten near to
(16:00):
work and for me, I got a small fever the
next day that the day that I got my shot.
It was like the first time I got my shot,
which was the next day, was really painful. It felt
like I had been in a car wreck and landed
on my shoulder type of thing. Like it was really painful,
but not a big deal, like I can move, everything's fine.
Next morning, you know, the couple of days later it
(16:22):
was gone. But the day I got out the second shot,
it was immediate. I was like, oh my gosh, somehow
my partner ended up finding that spot. You know how
it is at one spot that you don't want to touch,
and somehow it always happens because I don't why, Like
I just would scream. And then the next day I
was kind of sluggish and tired, arm was hurting, and
then I got little bit of a fever, but that
(16:44):
quickly went away weston as I took an Abbie profen
and took a little nap and that was it. And
the following day I was fine. So and since then
I haven't had any I don't that I'm aware of symptoms,
So for me, it was much easier. They knew to
the point that, like, I think we came back. I'm
thinking we did our shot on the Wednesday. We made
(17:06):
sure we didn't record anything. We're kind of ahead, and
then when I talked to you on Monday, you're along
Okay that Tuesday I still felt nauseated, right, but worth it. Oh,
totally totally work because guess who's going to go get
wings somewhere tomorrow? We are get my haircut, she don't
get her haircut. I'm gonna go with joy. Yeah, yeah,
(17:31):
I mean I think that's been interesting, which we've talked
about this before. People have been writing articles about it.
Of the anxiety that you were touching on something ata
of I'm really excited about some things, but also very
anxious about other things. And I'll say like when I
got my first shot, I almost was brought to tears.
(17:54):
I was so excited. When I got my second one,
I was excited, but I was very much more like,
oh no, um, I guess I will have to go outside.
I'm not as excited as I'm hearing from other people.
Does that mean I messed up? Like you know? And
I think we're all gonna have to deal with that
of going through this, right you you vastly changed based
(18:19):
on plans around you, and because people know you as
the go to person, that's a whole lot of expectations
that laid on you anyway, For me, I have the
anxiety of going out because I don't want to be
around the people. Necessarily I feel like I'm not the best,
especially if I'm in one of my modes where it's
just really hard for me to communicate, really hard for
(18:39):
me to articulate what's happening inside of my head and
really paranoid, and therefore I kind of translate what you
say to me as if I'm doing something wrong. So
that's part of my whole anxiety. So for me, saying no,
it's fairly easy, and I've gotten to the habit of
just not saying yes until the last minute. So that's
my trick, which I know everybody's like, but my friends
(19:02):
understand well enough that that's how I do it, and
because I don't know that level and maybe I'm just
gotten too old to care too much about them. Like
I've made the friends that I've made, and they know
me well enough that they understand, I hope, and I'll
give that same allowance to others. So that that because
typically if they cancel my thank god that's But so
(19:27):
for me, it's a whole separate set of why we're
feeling this, and again, like I said, like, I'm excited
about going out and being able to do things. So
even if it's just me and you going to get wings,
I'm super excited about that. I'm not excited about going
out with a crowd of people being close to me
and just all up in each other's space. I'm not
(19:48):
going to that being around a group of twenty people,
not being able to talk to everybody talking to one person,
feeling anxiety because you will have this performance anxiety of
being cool around these people. Not looking forward to that.
So there's definitely levels of like, oh yeah, I'm really
excited about going to have a happy hour with two
of my friends or you know, three of my friends.
That's so exciting. Or being able to call and be like, hey,
(20:09):
what are you doing today, Let's go give runch. That's awesome.
Everything else well, I will tell you one I know joke,
and I know this is very silly. I had a
nightmare the other night of our people going to expect
me to plan a birthday party because my birthday is
(20:32):
always a big throwdown. Oh yeah, and it's it's far
away enough that it's possible it could be done. So
and there's that. And then the second thing is I
don't know if you listeners remember, but forever ago, when
Samantha and I did therapy sessions on this very show,
I was talking about how I felt like if I
(20:53):
wasn't the fun one, if I didn't put on this performance,
I would lose all my friends. And I will say
that did not happen this year. People have they've been
so supportive and they showed up for me, and I've
you've showed up for me, and it means the world
to me because I really was like an insecurity that
I have. And then thirdly, I do think and this
(21:15):
is this could be really specific to our office and
our kind of group of co workers and friends. Almost
everyone I've spoken to is like, I want to continue
working from home. I'm happy getting out of social plans,
Like I'm excited about some of these things, but in general,
I'm good. And so I don't think that you are
the only one by any means. That's good to know.
(21:38):
I like that. Yeah, obviously people love your presence because
you do make things fun. But also I always want
to encourage you to having your own times because watching
you get into your fan fiction as you do, which
is your pride and joy. I can't imagine anybody to
help taking that away from you. Yeah, the Year of
(22:03):
fan fiction. Um, I love it. I love it. I
love with some people like their babies. They're probably enjoy
their dogs are proad enjoying me my fan fiction, My
quarantine baby. That is your quarantine baby. There you go. Yeah,
so we just wanted to share our experiences. We encourage
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(22:24):
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Hey, this is Annie and Samantha. I don't just stuff.
I've never told your production of I Heart Radio. It's Thursday,
so that means it is time for another happy hour.
(00:25):
Happy yes, and as always, drink responsibly if you choose too.
So these are just moments we like to provide where
we can have some conversations and hopefully give you a
space to relax as we approach the end of the
week or you know this whole week structure I'm not
sure about. Yeah, that could be a whole different conversation.
(00:49):
But Samantha, what are you stepping on? I have decided
to go away from alcohol today and I am going
to stick with a lovely kambucha, which is a raspberry
lemon ginger has got all the delights. It does have
quite a bit of sugar, so I'm going to slow
down on this. However, I was thinking of adding my
(01:09):
carbonated water with some lemon to it, which I'm gonna
try now she's just gotten up in the middle of
the podcast to go do that. I'm gonna do a
little a SMR to see what it sounds like. So
here we go, busy and lemony yum. That makes sense,
(01:37):
So I don't know if I've ever talked about this
on this show, but I have a real thing about
using everything up, and I don't like having things that
just sit around for a long time. So ever since
we did the Happy Hour with Holly, I've had some
cranberry juice that I'm trying to get rid of, and
then a couple Actually it was probably over a year
(01:58):
ago because of quarantine. I had a friend over and
she left this like jar of lemonade over, so I've
been trying to use those up. So I made like
a sparkling water lemonade cranberry juice with some fresh lemonade
in it. Because I'm not normally a fruit juice person. Like,
I'll drink it, but it's just like not I was
(02:19):
gonna say, that's got the artificial flavors you don't like, right,
So it's fine, But I will say I found a
bottle of rum hidden. I don't know if I meant
to hide it if it kind of fell in my
refrigerator as I was getting the stuff out to make this.
So that's exciting. Yeah, I have room. I never have room.
(02:42):
You've got some wrong congratulations. It's fuss about when I
have like I thought I'd ring out of whatever beer
that I have or saltzers or whatever, and I'm like,
I'll look at one war Yeah, it's a nice, nice
discovery surprise. It's surprise at the bottom of the bag
when you thought we're done with all the fries. That's
that is lovely. Speaking of lovely, as we record this,
(03:06):
Samantha and I are approaching our two week post second
dose vaccination period, which will mean that we are fully
vaccinated tomorrow who until we have to boosters boosters. Yeah. Yeah,
it is very exciting, and it's exciting because I feel
like a lot of my friends and family are either
(03:28):
very close to being fully vaccinated or are fully vaccinated.
I feel like for me, I'm not telling too many people,
Like I haven't done all of the photos or any
of the announcements because I like being underground and unreachable.
I like this excuse of being able to say I
can't come out. Uh, and people for the most part
(03:49):
at least understanding why I'm saying that. So, hey, y'all,
don't tell people. As you're on a podcast for finding
just saying don't tell people. Yeah, I was hoping that,
you know, by posting something it would be like, you
can go get yours absolutely. Like I want to be
(04:10):
like encouraging and all that. At the same time, I'm
kind of like, I also don't want to tell people
I can come out unless I choose to be with
that one person. I will say, I've already gotten the
invitations have started coming right, oh dear, I'm ready. I
have to and I'm starting to be like, well maybe,
(04:33):
And I will say a part of this too is
because people are so excited, including me, that I am
having people plan things way in advance, and because of
my introvertedness and my anxiety and depression in general, I
sometimes will say yes on a good day and then
the day it rises, like how do I get out
(04:54):
of this? Sure, let's normalized being able to change our
mind about hanging out. Yeah, I think. I think that's
a human experience. I think a lot of people feel
that way. And that's kind of one of the things
we talked about in our self Care episode is it's
not just saying yes to the happy hour of friends.
Is being able to say no to the happy hour
of friends when you need to. And we're not going
(05:16):
to get too much into any of this stuff in
this Happy Hour episode, but did what I mentioned. There's
been a lot of research coming out is more and
more people have gotten the vaccine and more and more
people have had it for six months about women with
pregnancy and the safety of that, which so far seems
(05:37):
all good. But we can dig into that in a
future episode. And then I didn't know about this, but
I heard from some friends and I looked it up
and totally right. But um, some women are having reactions
with their periods where they're having extreme heavy flow periods
or something. So that's something else to in too, because
(06:01):
I verified it online and it's not just anecdotal, it
is observed thing. And also I saw an article about
how some doctors are afraid that it's going to be
a summer full of st I s is everybody is
so excited to get out there and they're gonna forget everything.
(06:23):
I guess, right. I also know that there's a whole
conversation of people going out too soon. So I was
very guilty because I really wanted to go out and
even possibly exercise earlier this week, but in my mind
of like sen days a right at sendays and then
realizing the cautionary bits fourteen, So I'm like, oh man,
(06:45):
I need to wait, but that's not happening. People immediately
are getting their second dosage and a couple of days
are like, I'm going out because there are some statistics
saying that you know that after second shot of the fiser,
within a week, it's ninety percent effective, and people are
just banking on that, not realizing a Again, these are
all theories and hopefully but also the fact that we
(07:07):
don't know what your body is gonna do specifically to
what's happening. And of course people have been talking a
lot about side effects. As you were mentioning before, some
people are being knocked out for like three days. I
have a friend who literally got shingles, and apparently that's
known to happen to a few whether it's just the
resurgence of an old virus, you know, because we know
that shingles come through chickenpox, all of that stuff. Um,
(07:30):
so you never know what's going to happen with your
body and how it feels, but you definitely should do it. Yeah,
the risks are too high. Yeah, absolutely, Like having these
conversations about side effects is just being I mean, they're
very rare generally, and also, so we'll talk about this
in a little bit, but I had a really bad
(07:50):
reaction to the second shot, and I've been hesitant about
sharing it with people just because i know, like they're saying,
millions of people aren't getting your second dose because they
think if first one is enough and that it's not
worth whatever you go through with the second one. But
I'm like, but COVID though, and then there is a
pretty high uptick of people who are getting COVID after
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even after the first shot, and that's the conversation that
needs to be having. And then the numbers are really
high right now, we're just not talking about it as much.
People are all kind of I don't know if it's
because we're focused on the vaccine and trying to get
people to get vaccinated and so that's what the focus
is on. But the numbers and statistics and the hospitalizations
are starting to rise again, and that's a concern for sure. Yeah. Yeah,
(08:35):
and we're hopefully obviously, but we're not medical experts, so
don't seek you're that type of advice from us. But
also there's bank conversations, rightfully so about being the privilege
of being in like the United States, where now we
have extra vaccines and other countries can't get them right,
(08:58):
So that's another conversation we need to be having for sure,
and the whole trying to copyright and not share. Yeah,
I think I'm too much of a socialist for those conversations.
Cement the socialist. My name is now on the list,
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isn't because I said it? Yes, it's true. I'm sorry.
I just had a hard time when you have something
that could actually save people all of the world and
you're just being selfish. Yeah. Maybe there's some legalities that
I don't understand, but it just doesn't make sense to
me when you have something that could actually help the world. Yeah. Yeah.
(09:40):
And it was also another thing where I saw a
lot of people talking about you know, when I went
to go get it, there was a part of me
like am I going to have to pay and you don't?
And then other countries like in like the UK or
Canada like, uh, what would you care? Yeah? Yeah, think
that's really interesting too, because that is the bigger conversation
(10:02):
of like, hey, this is what health care, universal health
care would look like. You know how easy it was
just to get it done, and I have to worry
about all the pains in the paperwork. Yeah, this is
what you should be just to know that you can
save your life or be healthy not it. Yeah, as
well as the fact that, uh, you know, I tell
you that my parents are very conservative in my my
(10:24):
parents are very excited about medicare and I have been
using it and I'm very preventive stuff, and I'm very
glad they are. But in my back of my head,
I'm like, do you not understand this could have been
you the whole time. You didn't have to be in
pain and worried about what's wrong with you and not
being able to afford to find out. Yeah. Yeah, So
there's a lot of issues to entangle around all of this.
(10:49):
Probably not good for a happy hour, though, so we
thought we would just discuss our our personal experience and
feelings as we got the second desk, because we got
it on the same day, I had to maneuver in
a way to make sure to get our vaccine a
little earlier, just because I don't know if you guys
(11:11):
have read that Walgreen's Apparently when they were originally doing
the appointments, they would give you the second appointment, but
they would stretch it out so for Fiser, they recommend
it within three weeks, and uh, they would do it
for four weeks and no one understood why, and to
the point of the CDC called them out and I
was like, why are you doing this? Give them their shot.
And so when I found that out, I was like, oh,
(11:31):
let me see if I can get an appointment a
week early. Because also I was getting jealous at the
fact that people who had shots after me, we're getting
their second shoots before me. It was a little bit
of competitiveness in that route. Um, so we were able
to work it out. And because in Georgia, after the
number showed how bad we were at giving vaccines, the
(11:52):
numbers jumped very quickly when KEMP decided to pull push
the age level to sixteen. Yeah, as well as giving
people broader options to get shots. So when that happened,
all of the mass sites opened up. And by the way,
the rural areas still have a lot of extra shots
as where of course the populated urban areas had less.
(12:15):
So it's definitely interesting to see how that's worked out.
But yeah, for us, we just decided to go ahead
and get it done as soon as we could. So
I think it was like two days but after the
day that I could get a shot, but a week
earlier than when we were supposed to get our shot,
and I was like, any we're gonna be vaccinated on
the same day, and then the whole like I forgot
(12:38):
They named something specifically to fighter people who get shots
in Maderna people, but you're a Maderna girl, and I
was a finer girl. I only know one other person
who got in there. Now I have I know several
people who have gotten Maderna. And originally I wanted to
get Maderna because I was like Dr Corbett she did
some amazing things, and and you know Dolly Park, She's
(13:00):
amazing Dolly Parton. I'm there right, I mean, I'm just
saying those two things, both of those days, like, yes,
I want to be a part of their history. But
I don't know. I've heard people having different reactions to
both and your reaction and my other good friends reaction,
and I was like, oh, who also had Maderna. I
was like, maybe I don't want that madernal want, even
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though both have side effects. Yeah, well, so Smith and
I were it was almost like a well, you don't
know what's gonna happen because we got him at the
same time. We were going to compare symptoms. And I
went to bed that night and woke up and I
was like, oh um, and probably by I would say,
(13:48):
late afternoon. The next day, I was like, oh no,
this is bad and it's stick around for like five
to seven days. It was bad for three days. And
when I say bad, it was bad, right. But I
know you don't believe me, Smapa, but I've been told
that that means I have a robust immune system, and
I'm running with that. You keep that. I've said it
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like this when my parents would tell me when kids
would pick on me for being Asians, instead of saying
that people are racist, they were just like they're jealous
because they were so pretty. I'm like that, that's not
how that works. But okay, I don't know how I
feel about that comparison. You're very cute and ready m
(14:33):
but no, yeah, I believe that. I think I was
very surprised because between the two of us, your immune
system seems to be a little better in the sense
of like you can eat almost anything and you're okay
as well. If I eat something, I'm not like, I
don't I don't have a sense of stomach, but I
will be more affective than you are typically what I've seen.
(14:56):
But you also are the one you get the random
illnesses that I'm like, how did you get both of
these things? What happened? Yeah? I feel like I haven't
been six since I mean god many years, so but
when I do get sick, I get like the very
(15:16):
very severe how did you get this? Like you have
to be quarantined levels? Yeah, like this is not my
first time being quarantined, it's actually of my third time.
But because of that, it was kind of funny, like
I was miserable, but I was like, wow, I forgot
the bloody can do this to you? Which is I'm
very lucky that I never get sick. But I said, man,
(15:39):
everything burns. What is this? The level of giggles, not
because you were suffering. I was very sad, but the
back and forth of you like I'm sweating, I'm so cold,
I am drenched, I can't move, everything hurts, uh, but
I'm working. Like that was I did ten near to
(16:00):
work and for me, I got a small fever the
next day that the day that I got my shot.
It was like the first time I got my shot,
which was the next day, was really painful. It felt
like I had been in a car wreck and landed
on my shoulder type of thing. Like it was really painful,
but not a big deal, like I can move, everything's fine.
Next morning, you know, the couple of days later it
(16:22):
was gone. But the day I got out the second shot,
it was immediate. I was like, oh my gosh, somehow
my partner ended up finding that spot. You know how
it is at one spot that you don't want to touch,
and somehow it always happens because I don't why, Like
I just would scream. And then the next day I
was kind of sluggish and tired, arm was hurting, and
then I got little bit of a fever, but that
(16:44):
quickly went away weston as I took an Abbie profen
and took a little nap and that was it. And
the following day I was fine. So and since then
I haven't had any I don't that I'm aware of symptoms,
So for me, it was much easier. They knew to
the point that, like, I think we came back. I'm
thinking we did our shot on the Wednesday. We made
(17:06):
sure we didn't record anything. We're kind of ahead, and
then when I talked to you on Monday, you're along
Okay that Tuesday I still felt nauseated, right, but worth it. Oh,
totally totally work because guess who's going to go get
wings somewhere tomorrow? We are get my haircut, she don't
get her haircut. I'm gonna go with joy. Yeah, yeah,
(17:31):
I mean I think that's been interesting, which we've talked
about this before. People have been writing articles about it.
Of the anxiety that you were touching on something ata
of I'm really excited about some things, but also very
anxious about other things. And I'll say like when I
got my first shot, I almost was brought to tears.
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I was so excited. When I got my second one,
I was excited, but I was very much more like,
oh no, um, I guess I will have to go outside.
I'm not as excited as I'm hearing from other people.
Does that mean I messed up? Like you know? And
I think we're all gonna have to deal with that
of going through this, right you you vastly changed based
(18:19):
on plans around you, and because people know you as
the go to person, that's a whole lot of expectations
that laid on you anyway, For me, I have the
anxiety of going out because I don't want to be
around the people. Necessarily I feel like I'm not the best,
especially if I'm in one of my modes where it's
just really hard for me to communicate, really hard for
(18:39):
me to articulate what's happening inside of my head and
really paranoid, and therefore I kind of translate what you
say to me as if I'm doing something wrong. So
that's part of my whole anxiety. So for me, saying no,
it's fairly easy, and I've gotten to the habit of
just not saying yes until the last minute. So that's
my trick, which I know everybody's like, but my friends
(19:02):
understand well enough that that's how I do it, and
because I don't know that level and maybe I'm just
gotten too old to care too much about them. Like
I've made the friends that I've made, and they know
me well enough that they understand, I hope, and I'll
give that same allowance to others. So that that because
typically if they cancel my thank god that's But so
(19:27):
for me, it's a whole separate set of why we're
feeling this, and again, like I said, like, I'm excited
about going out and being able to do things. So
even if it's just me and you going to get wings,
I'm super excited about that. I'm not excited about going
out with a crowd of people being close to me
and just all up in each other's space. I'm not
(19:48):
going to that being around a group of twenty people,
not being able to talk to everybody talking to one person,
feeling anxiety because you will have this performance anxiety of
being cool around these people. Not looking forward to that.
So there's definitely levels of like, oh yeah, I'm really
excited about going to have a happy hour with two
of my friends or you know, three of my friends.
That's so exciting. Or being able to call and be like, hey,
(20:09):
what are you doing today, Let's go give runch. That's awesome.
Everything else well, I will tell you one I know joke,
and I know this is very silly. I had a
nightmare the other night of our people going to expect
me to plan a birthday party because my birthday is
(20:32):
always a big throwdown. Oh yeah, and it's it's far
away enough that it's possible it could be done. So
and there's that. And then the second thing is I
don't know if you listeners remember, but forever ago, when
Samantha and I did therapy sessions on this very show,
I was talking about how I felt like if I
(20:53):
wasn't the fun one, if I didn't put on this performance,
I would lose all my friends. And I will say
that did not happen this year. People have they've been
so supportive and they showed up for me, and I've
you've showed up for me, and it means the world
to me because I really was like an insecurity that
I have. And then thirdly, I do think and this
(21:15):
is this could be really specific to our office and
our kind of group of co workers and friends. Almost
everyone I've spoken to is like, I want to continue
working from home. I'm happy getting out of social plans,
Like I'm excited about some of these things, but in general,
I'm good. And so I don't think that you are
the only one by any means. That's good to know.
(21:38):
I like that. Yeah, obviously people love your presence because
you do make things fun. But also I always want
to encourage you to having your own times because watching
you get into your fan fiction as you do, which
is your pride and joy. I can't imagine anybody to
help taking that away from you. Yeah, the Year of
(22:03):
fan fiction. Um, I love it. I love it. I
love with some people like their babies. They're probably enjoy
their dogs are proad enjoying me my fan fiction, My
quarantine baby. That is your quarantine baby. There you go. Yeah,
so we just wanted to share our experiences. We encourage
everyone to get vaccinated. We would love to hear from
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you listeners. What are your thoughts and feelings? How is
it for you getting vaccinated? You can email us at
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