Melrick

That’s awesome. Congrats to mum for getting her first jab. Hope you don’t have to wait very long for yours, Melrick.   

Well being mum’s fulltime carer meant I could have had mine now, but there’s been a hiccup in the system.  AstraZeneca – the one she got, and by far the most common one we have here – has now been not recommended for those under 50 because of an extremely unlikely chance of getting blood clots.  So that’s kind of derailed things a bit, which means I’m not sure when I’ll be getting mine now.  Likely depends on when we can get a shed load of Pfizer shots, and when.  But as I said, Covid is totally under control here (touch wood!) so it’s not like things are desperate.  As soon as I’m eligible, I’ll be getting mine. 

Yes, the government up here has also decided to not use the AstraZeneca vaccine for the under 50 crowd, because of those blood clot cases. But as far as I know they’re pretty much on schedule with the vaccine plans, so my parents (mum has underlying conditions, and dad’s turning 69 this year) should be up this month, and then hopefully I’ll be getting mine near the end of the month, start of May. And we’ve got decent control of the pandemic up here as well, although we had a fourth wave pick up just around Christmas, which is thankfully back under control. 

Let’s hope you guys stay on track with keeping Covid under control (knock on wood) and that you’ll get the jab soon. And I can only imagine how much stress it lifts for you that your mum is getting her jabs, and therefore getting some level of protection