vaccination station trepidation

Post date: 2021-01-18 07:13:44

I'm getting my first vaccine dose in a week, how do I be preemptively less stressed about it?

I'm high risk and being vaccinated for Covid in about a week. That's so great! I am thrilled and grateful and excited. It's one of the best things that's ever happened to me! However: I am also a little freaked out, and trying to get on top of that stress before it spins out of control. I haven't even been inside a grocery store since March, and I got my flu shot in a drive through. I'm less freaked out than I would be because the shot is in a municipal building and not a hospital, but it feels to my anxiety very much like going to a hospital or walking into a covid zone. I'm worried about not taking enough precautions, or worst of all somehow blowing this opportunity for myself and my loved ones by...getting covid? Wasting the shot? Something?

So, to other people who have been vaccinated already or know someone who has: what are reasons I should not be scared? What was it like (especially if you also got it in a non-medical building)? What kind of PPE did you wear? How do they sign you in? Did you feel safe/like there was good social distancing/masking? How long did it take? How was it afterward? I think the more info I know the more relaxed I'll be, even though I know I'll spend, in total, much more time worrying than the shot will take. I'm not worried about the needle or shot itself or side effects but I would be interested to know how people reacted if you had any.

I'm getting Moderna but I'm happy to hear from anyone who got anything.

Thank you! I promise to raise a glass of antibodies in your honor.

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