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I’m not a big THREAD guy but I just had a truly remarkable experience with the COVID vaccine and I wanted to share it because I feel incredibly fortunate. Maybe a medical professional can explain to me what the hell is going on.
On March 28, my girlfriend took the train home from Manhattan. When I picked her up at the station, I said, “Boy a lot of people got off that train.” It was packed, she said, and mask-wearing was less than perfect.
On March 31, she started complaining of a stuffy nose and was sneezing. Allergies, we figured. It’s that time of year. We went the next day to get our first doses of the Moderna vaccine.
Ciera’s sniffles lingered over the next several days and didn’t respond to allergy medicine, so she decided to get a COVID test last Monday as a precaution. The results came back on Wednesday: positive.
And that was a shock, because she had no other symptoms. No loss of taste or smell, no fever, no aches, no cough. Just sniffles and lots of sneezing—and every source we read said sneezing either was not a symptom or only very rarely.
I went to get a test at that point. We live together. We’re together all day, every day, trading microscopic spit droplets. I figured for sure I had gotten infected as well. I felt like a ticking time bomb, just waiting to feel like crap.
But I felt healthy as an ox. And then my test came back on Friday: negative. How? Just to be sure, I went back for another test yesterday. The results just came in: negative again.
I got one dose of a two-dose vaccine after the point at which Ciera should have been contagious. And yet, I never got infected with the virus. Ciera, meanwhile, only had the most minor of symptoms. She’s doing a workout class right this second, seven days after her diagnosis.
Both the doctor she spoke to after her positive test and a contact tracer told her the vaccine probably prevented the virus from hitting her too hard. In my case, it seems like it told the virus to fuck off right away.
I don’t know if anyone who follows me is hesitant about the vaccine but I’ve spent the past several days feeling like I won the lottery. The vaccine works!
