MY FRIENDS…to those who are adamant and entertain doubts about being vaccinated, banish those thoughts. Let’s go vac.
The Pope has ordained that is it God’s will that we be healed. Let Thy will be done. Amen.
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I had just been vaccinated at the University of San Agustin and wish to share my personal experience with you and some insights to calm your false fears and persuade you to save your life.
I wish to trumpet my utmost surprise and awe at the speedy, efficient and professional competence of the medical staff that attended us; the disciplined uniformed guards – polite and helpful in every way while we were at the campus; the ever smiling and untiring health workers; magnificent staff – uncomplaining and pushed the wheelchair from start to finish. The first time in my long life I have been served first class.
My compliments to Iloilo City’s Mayor Jerry Treñas who made all these possible; his relentless COVID drive amid the stresses of government duties which landed him in the hospital.
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The first thing you should do is ask for a wheelchair. In this way, you are given priority and rushed immediately to the frontline. Act like your dying but don’t overdo it to make it come true.
You will sign a form indicating your personal circumstances, health conditions and what they call “morbidity” like diabetes, asthma, high blood pressure, heart problems, kidney, liver, prostate, baldness, eczema, smelly feet and bad breath, and all that plagues you.
Please just pick one or two from the above; otherwise, they might conclude that you are beyond medical salvation and send you to Abecia for cremation. Financial anguish and sexual frustrations are not asked.
The medical team will inspect your form and a physician will ask you questions regarding your health, the medicine you are taking. There will be a thermal test simultaneous with a clip-on heart pressure device and your blood pressure is taken.
Then in a whiz you are wheeled to the air-conditioned gym and immediately injected with the vaccine…Sinovac.
The medical technologist is an expert pricker…you can hardly feel the needle. Definitely, the words of your mother-in-law are more painful.
Then wheeeee… you are at a waiting station where the same thermal, heart beat and blood pressure test will be taken. You are advised to rest for a while and 15 minutes later the same team will return and repeat the procedure. The continuity of the medical team is superb like clockwork. I have only praises for all of them.
And then you are out in the sunlight. There is a request to report any ill effects or discomfort felt within a period of five days and take Biogesic or similar analgesic for two days.
One thing you will feel, though, which we all experienced, is a deep exhilaration and relief, knowing that with the vaccine you have a fighting chance. So, immediately thereafter, I took light beer. But I am not a doctor.
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We did endeavour to secure high-end vaccines like Moderna and Pfizer…but none are coming and time is of the essence. Several doctors and medical people have all been injected with Sinovac. And most compelling, so have nuns. Bless you Mother.
In the meantime, it is your life at stake while the virus is lurking out there ready to infect at an unguarded moment, it is best to have something to fight it with.
Let us repay our City Mayor for his unselfish concern and dedication beyond the call of duty.
Your safety level is up. But don’t forget the mask. Let’s go vac./PN
