I'm very excited, and feeling a little guilty...

You deserve it. I can't wait to get mine. I'm hoping to be in the next round after you all on the front line.

working with vulnerable people. Have a good trip!

Perhaps it would help you let go of any guilt feelings by looking at it from another vantage point. Once the vaccine has done its job and you're no longer vulnerable to Covid-19, it means that those in your circle, your family, friends and others you come into contact with are not at risk of catching it from you.
Both the vaccines and wearing the mask make life safer for ourselves and those we love. Everyone benefits.

My sister is in healthcare and she got hers last week. It was drive through. Shot, then a 10-15 min staging area to ensure no allergic reaction.

I told her the same thing. You are forging the way for the rest of us. Thank you.

your sleeve. I feel so bad how our Nurses, Drs. and hospitals are overwhelmed with Covid patients. So sad, we did not have to be at this juncture.

Any side effects or no side effects..and congratulations.

Get it done!

How exciting!

Had mine on the 24th. One feeling I wasn't expecting is the increased fear of contracting the virus now that I'm almost there. My booster shot is scheduled for the 18th of January and I guess a week later I should be fully immunized. Until then, I'm terrified and I didn't feel that way before. I've always been extremely careful, but now I'm fanatical. Today I read about a nurse who came down with covid six days after her first shot.

Then get that jab. No need to feel guilty. My wife got her first one today, she works in a hospital lab and she processes Covid tests. I'm just a "delivery boy" (truck driver) so I'll wait my turn but those frontline healthcare workers exposed to Covid and nursing home residents need theirs first. Then other non medical frontline workers who are exposed to Covid. Then us "essential workers". Then the kids. Then everyone else.

I am proud to take the vaccine now. We all need to roll up our sleeves as soon as vaccines are available. Thx for your words of support.

Just go, drive carefully, and count your blessings if you are so inclined.

It makes the weight of this craziness ever so slightly...lighter!

Sure sounds to me that you should be one of the first to get it, just sorry that you have to go so far. My friend got her first vaccine shot last week, she works in the local hospital ER with psychiatric patients, but it's a hospital ER. She had to drive over an hour to a major hospital to get it since the local hospital didn't have the necessary required refrigeration, but she said all the health care workers there were grateful to get it. And she said her arm hurt a little just at the beginning, that was it. Good luck!

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Don’t feel guilty, nobody begrudges your vaccine after the sacrifice you’ve made.

That is my only qualification. ....

seems that all the nurses, physicians and so forth in our county, have been served. So, geriatrics like me are next.

Eat well, drink plenty of fluids, exercise very lightly and REST! Yeeeehawwww! Congratulations!!!

your receiving the vaccination should be a priority. Have a safe drive.

Don't feel guilty, you need to protect you so you can keep being there to do your job, too! You are essential.

You don't have to be ICU staff to have your own ass on the line and be terrified of bringing the virus home to your family or from outside your workplace to the vulnerable patients. Direct patient care of any kind isn't the only part of being a front line worker in health care.

So get that shot with a clear conscience.

...but lately, it's getting scarier and scarier. Lot's of patients turning up with Covid out of the blue it seems, also bringing it home from rehabs. Mostly, I'm terrified I'm going to bring it home to my family or to another patient, even though we follow every precaution: gown, gloves, mask, face shield. Those ICU folks follow precautions too, yet many of them have gotten sick and some died from Covid. This time next year, we will all remember this time with a groan and much gratitude that it has passed. I look forward to being able to bring my own therapy equipment into the home again, something I won't do with a raging pandemic.

and I got my shiny new nursing license just as AIDS hit. I still preferred hospital work to home nursing.

nobody should feel guilty unless they are like Rubio .