52 Card Project 2022: Week 15: Immunity

[pegkerr]

This is slightly late, because I ordinarily do my collages on Friday during my Zoom with my coffee group. This past Friday, however, I was getting ready for Minicon instead. (Minicon will probably be the subject of this week's card, which I’ll do on this coming Friday.)

Anyway: a week ago Friday, I went to the doctor's for my annual checkup and rather rashly decided to load up on three vaccines at once: my second Covid booster, my ten-year tetanus booster, and the pneumococcal vaccine. And lordy, lordy, it absolutely wiped me out. I could barely get off the couch all weekend, which I expected, but I didn't expect to be pretty much useless for the entire week. I was totally exhausted. I lasted barely a half hour at my writing group meeting on Wednesday night, and then the critique group ordered me to go to bed and kicked me off the Zoom.

I tried to comfort myself by reasoning that my immune system was revving up, doing what it needed to do to get ready to handle All The Things. But good heavens. That was rough.

The text on the pillowcase is from a button I once gave Rob (I used to give him one on his Christmas stocking every year).

Image description: Background: a muscular woman with her back to the camera lifts weights. Foreground: a woman lies in bed, holding glasses in one hand, covering her face with a pillow with the other. Overlaid on the pillow are the words "It may look like I'm doing nothing, but on a cellular level I'm really quite busy."

Immunity



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Comments

[dreamshark]

Another pair of perfectly on the nose images. How do you always have the perfect picture? You explained the pillowcase, but where did you get Ms Muscles? She even looks like a bulked up version of you!

[pegkerr]

Since I’ve started doing digital collage, I’ve started bookmarking a number of sites where I can get royalty-free images to use. Pixabay is my most reliable one. You just search for whatever it is you’re looking for. In this case, I searched for “woman lifting weights” and “exhausted woman.” Other sites are Unsplash, Pexels, Burst, Gratisography, etc.

[pameladean]

That's a great card.

I got my tetanus booster with the fourth COVID booster too, but the pneumonia vaccine is on a different schedule for me, perhaps fortunately. I sat around for several days proclaiming at intervals that I was just fine, but I didn't get much done.

P.

[pegkerr]

Your cells, however, were very busy.

[pameladean]

They'd better have been, given how they stole all my energy for their nefarious purposes.

The nurse who reminded me about the tetanus booster was very clear that it would be okay to get it another time, but I felt I'd just as soon make the most of the appointment and whatever exposure it included. After all, gardening season should start soon. Or, I guess, not; I'm not cleaning anything up til temperatures are much higher, so as to help out beneficial pollinators. Also viewing with interest No Mow May. I need to see if Minneapolis is on board with that. The city did finally ally with the Xerces Society about not cleaning up your yard the very moment the snow is off it for five seconds.

Sorry, will stop rambling on. But tetanus shots always evoke gardening for me.

P.

[aome]

Good thing you didn't get a shingles vaccine on top of all that? :-P (That gave me flu-like symptoms for a day or two.)

[pegkerr]

Agreed; I've had the shingles vaccine and it's rough!

[lydamorehouse]

Hahaha. This one made me laugh (in a good way!)