A momentous day

I was just in the middle of my singing lesson when the doorbell rang. I left John to answer the door as I expected it to be a delivery for him. The next thing I know, John has hot-footed it upstairs and is standing at the doorway, out of breath, and telling me that it’s the nurses come to do our vaccine injections. Oh, wow!

I suggested John go and have his first and then I’d go down afterwards. When it was time to go, I ran down the stairs and flew into the hallway, sleeve up and arm at the ready. There was a sort of stunned silence for a minute, which I took to mean that I was in the wrong place. I hurried into the dining room and sat down where John had clearly been sitting moments before.

“Well, you don’t look like you’re housebound,” said the senior nurse, her eyes glittering with disapproval. “I’m not,” I replied. “Why are you having the vaccine then? I don’t why you’re on the list.’ she said. Now I understood the stunned silence. I explained that I’d had a text; I wondered if it was perhaps it was because I was John’s ‘carer’? I told her that I’d phoned to chase up the vaccine and explained then that I wasn’t sure if the text was meant to be for me or not. But, I was told that both John and I were on the list, so here I am.

The nurse looked at me stony-faced as I scrambled to work out what to say next. Did she need to see the text? I didn’t want to jump the queue……. but if she thought I shouldn’t be having it, should we………? The more junior nurse stepped in, and said, “Well, you’re on the list and we’re here now so we will do it.’ Ok – thank you. And there we are, job done. Twelve weeks until the next instalment.

I went and finished my singing lesson before we grabbed something to eat for a late lunch. Afterwards, I decided to have a rest this afternoon and have a day off. Well, that was nice. John spent the time on the computer playing poker – and he’s being successful now. He’s getting the hang of it, going from two thousand chips to seven thousand. Can’t be bad, eh? He says there’s still a lot to learn, but he’s still enjoying it.

Then this evening it was ‘Zoom’ time with the girls from college. So lovely to see everyone and we had a good old natter hearing everyone’s news – a new baby, daughter with COVID, a worried daughter whose house purchase may fall through and so on. Although I put my foot in it by being bossy, as usual, and will be needing to make an apology for doing so…… eeesh! Not sure if I’ll ever learn……

In the meantime, we hear that the virus infection rate is slowing and the vaccine is contributing to that, which is rather good news.

• 20,634 people tested positive for the virus today
• 915 people died in the community with the virus in the last 24 hours
• 370 people died in hospitals on 2 & 3 February

I’m keeping my fingers crossed that soon, very soon the vaccine machine will work its magic and so many people will have had the jab to make it easier to ease restrictions. I want to meet up with my family, obviously, but it would be rather nice to meet me mates again too.

Take care everyone. God bless.