Vaccinated!

[Scotsblood]

Well today by virtue of my working role I was lucky enough to get the first dose of what I sincerely hope will be the vaccine that gives me long term protection from coronavirus and if we are all lucky will stop me transmitting the virus to others.

It’s not the only immunisation I’ve needed, and received, as a front line healthcare worker but it could well be the most significant for our population in my lifetime.

Second dose booked for 30th of this month.

In all honesty I do have a slightly sore arm but it will be a very small price to pay for the protection it should bestow.
Let’s hope the programme is received the way it should and gives us all the chance to get out and about again.

 

[Jenben]

Wow how lovely to read this , thanks for all you do as a front line health worker.

Like you I hope the programme is seen in a positive light .

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

Well done, roll on more availability.

 

[Larrynwin]

Congratulations, on the way to peace of mind.

 

[rosalan]

Roll on the day I can get a sore arm

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[Riverbankannie]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

 

[Vikdikdok]

. . . But will I be able to play the violin after the jab

 

[Langtoftlad]

As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

Yeah but humans wouldn't take kindly to being grabbed by the scruff of the neck, being jabbed, patted on the head & being told they're a good boy....

 

[Jimbohorlicks]

. . . But will I be able to play the violin after the jab

Of course you will ,with one arm.

 

[sedge]

Well I've done hundreds of ruddy jabs, only thing is, solely subcut, not intramusc ones!

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[The Wino]

Yeah but humans wouldn't take kindly to being grabbed by the scruff of the neck, being jabbed, patted on the head & being told they're a good boy....

It's if they need to check your temperature first that would worry me!

 

[Geo]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

Thank your Daughter for her interest, but i draw the line at being held down on cold stainless steel table by the scruff of my neck whilst she jabs me.
Seriously dont Vets have to train for almost 3 years longer than a Doctor, if the powers that be ever wake up and except this offer i will be first in line.
Rather a sympathetic caring Vet than a SAS Comando first aider

 

[Silver-Fox]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

Makes you wonder who decides these things doesn’t it

 

[chrisgreen]

 

[DumfriesDik]

Thats great news and thanks for sharing your insight as to how it went. All the best.

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[63720]

. . . But will I be able to play the violin after the jab

Only if you could play it before.

 

[DJA]

. . . But will I be able to play the violin after the jab

Unlikely as I have not heard of such a side effect after any other injections/vaccinations.

 

[JohnJan]

Yeah but humans wouldn't take kindly to being grabbed by the scruff of the neck, being jabbed, patted on the head & being told they're a good boy....

Never say never

 

[Googlebot]

I was looking forward to getting mine done ASAP. Since the start of the pandemic I have been worried about contracting it and have been sensible with everything I have done and working in healthcare I am a big advocate of vaccination.

Alas as luck would have it, I developed symptoms on the day the jab started. I am hoping it’s just a normal virus but the lateral flow tests we are using gave me a positive. Just awaiting the PCR test results while feeling ill in bed.

My point is, if offered the jab, please take it. I wish I could have done.

 

[Simon Meadwell]

rPlenty of people not trusting of the free vaccine saying we dont know if its safe. Then at weekends spend hundreds of pounds snorting coke bought off some scroat on a street corner. Hmm thats safe !

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[Googlebot]

rPlenty of people not trusting of the free vaccine saying we dont know if its safe. Then at weekends spend hundreds of pounds snorting coke bought off some scroat on a street corner. Hmm thats safe !

The same people buying unicorn glitter gin from
B&M Home Bargains.

Joking aside, I have looked at the evidence, the regulator knows what’s at stake with this vaccine. It’s safe and tested far more than most new drugs. They all have a risk of adverse reactions and that’s nothing new, I have been giving out flu jabs for years and we always had a few reactions.

 

[Coolcats]

. . . But will I be able to play the violin after the jab

Will we want to hear you play

 

[carolyn]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

I don’t think it has anything at all to do with skills Annie but a lot to do with money. The CCGs have a pot of money to use to pay locums for extra work that is done to cover patient care but it’s not a very big pot and they don’t know how long they’ve got to make it last in this current crisis.

The NHS voluntary responders have set up a program to train vaccinators who will give the jabs for free so I think the CCGs would rather use them plus their current staff than use people they’d have to pay like vets perhaps. The minimum requirement to train to be a vaccinator is 2 A levels so I think your daughter would qualify! I’ve no idea how long it takes as you have to wait for Red Cross training but I volunteered as they don’t want to use us retired doctors round here. Apparently my MB.BS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, was adequate and I have an enhanced DBS for other things I do. My registration with the GMC was reinstated.
Happy to help the NHS for free if I can.

 

[Riverbankannie]

I don’t think it has anything at all to do with skills Annie but a lot to do with money. The CCGs have a pot of money to use to pay locums for extra work that is done to cover patient care but it’s not a very big pot and they don’t know how long they’ve got to make it last in this current crisis.

The NHS voluntary responders have set up a program to train vaccinators who will give the jabs for free so I think the CCGs would rather use them plus their current staff than use people they’d have to pay like vets perhaps. The minimum requirement to train to be a vaccinator is 2 A levels so I think your daughter would qualify! I’ve no idea how long it takes as you have to wait for Red Cross training but I volunteered as they don’t want to use us retired doctors round here. Apparently my MB.BS, BSc, MRCGP, DRCOG, was adequate and I have an enhanced DBS for other things I do. My registration with the GMC was reinstated.
Happy to help the NHS for free if I can.

It would have been as an unpaid volunteer!

 

[carolyn]

It would have been as an unpaid volunteer!

That’s just madness, the only thing I can think of is that the Red Cross aren’t running a program in her area. When you join the scheme they do know where you are. It can’t be anything to do with her qualifications. I had the email 2 weeks ago and they confirmed I’d been accepted but they just say you’ll be contacted by the Red Cross ”in due course”. I can’t imagine it will be until next year if ever.

There’s supposed to be some online and then a one day face to face. The same for everyone.

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[Scotsblood]

The processes that allow a “prescription only medicine” like this vaccine to be administered without an individualised prescription are very rigid. The governance and safety requirements are significant and individual organisations are responsible and accountable for the use of what are called “patient group directives” to allow vaccinations without individual prescription.
There are very specific legal steps and for some organisations it will be difficult, and very costly, to train individuals for the number of vaccinations they will have to give. Remember there is at ground level no single ‘NHS’, we all work for different organisations under a badge not one company.

 

[Puddleduck]

Thank you for posting this and your reassuring experience. My parents have their appointments for next week but Mum will struggle to get Dad there and for him to agree to the jab.

I'm part of the group that have been advised to "hold fire" due to allergy issues. Even more of an issue for me as I have the paradoxical reaction to anti-histamine.

 

[Puddleduck]

Well I've done hundreds of ruddy jabs, only thing is, solely subcut, not intramusc ones!

I've done plenty of intramuscular cortisol jabs on myself - at least if I do my own I can feel how fast to push the plunger. I got all of a minute of "training" and then was told to get on with it.

 

[Rosemary1]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

With patients that wiggle and bite a lot more than the average human!

 

[Wildbill]

Looking forward to my turn.
They need more vaccinators here so my daughter applied to to told she doesn’t have the necessary skills. As a vet, she has only been doing all sorts of difficult injections for nearly 20 years!

In WW2 my uncle was a vet when he joined up to the royal vetanery corps he never in the hole war worked on a animal
I think they though he had the necessary skills a vet can work on humans but a doctor cannot treat a animal
Would i take the jab from a vet yes i would know its a vet because they would first stick a thermometer up my bum then convince me i need my nail's clipping
bill

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