The BEST. Christmas present!

[Almostslimjim]

Today I got told my grandparents get the COVID vaccine on Thursday! In 4 weeks I will be able to hug them. I can't believe it. I cried I was so happy. My grandparents are so happy, my grandmother cannot wait to go to the supermarket.

They are both extremely vulnerable- DGM has congestive heart failure, high blood pressure and cholesterol and is morbidly obese (though has lost weight this last 12 months and is probably the low end of obese now. And DGD whilst generally fit and well gas a rare blood vessel cancer. I've been so worried for them, not just COVID the isolation they've had too.

I could honestly run through the streets shouting with joy. They live 170miles away and I usually see them monthly but haven't as at that distance door step/ window visits aren't really possible.

I last saw them at my sister's wedding last January. I was due to visit at the end of Feb but by that point I was already treating COVID patients (I returned from may leave early straight to ICU, I'm a Dr), so didn't want to risk them.

4 weeks. 4 weeks until I can hug them.

That's great. My mum got her first dose this week but my dad hasn't been called! I haven't seen them for a year and a half now. So want to give them a hug too!

Ahhh I'm so happy for you, I can't wait for my grandparents to get called up so I can see them, they met ds last November wjen he was a couple months old and haven't seen him since.

So pleased! My grandma got her first dose last week and I cannot wait to be able to see her again!

Light at the end of a very dark and long tunnel. Enjoy your hugs.

Why do people think they will be able to live a normal life with the vaccine?

Happy for you. Desperately waiting for my 82 yr old dad with COPD to have the vaccine as Mum died of COVID 8 months ago. Waiting for the cAll

How come you'll be able to hug her? Sorry to put a dampner on things, but having the vaccine doesn't change the rules.

Why do people think they will be able to live a normal life with the vaccine?

She doesn't. She does feel she'll be able to go to the supermarket taking the precautions that the rest of us are taking at the moment. She hasn't left the house since March (she's wheelchair bound so it's difficult enough when life is normal).

Sorry to put a dampner on things, but having the vaccine doesn't change the rules.

I've had my vaccine, they've had their vaccine and she wants a hug. As soon as I can travel, I will be giving her a hug!

You'll get some right doom laden twats on your post. Just ignore them.

I'll have to hide your post as I don't read anything corona virus as a rule but didn't realise from the title of course - but wanted to say that's amazing and you are right to feel so happy

I love this!!!

@Ffsnosexallowed

How come you'll be able to hug her? Sorry to put a dampner on things, but having the vaccine doesn't change the rules.

It doesn't, technically, but the government is going to get their heads around the fact that there are going to be an increasing number of people who don't care much for the rules anymore, and perhaps redraw them?

While I am happy for the OP, I think if people are going to start posting on MN and social media about hugging people after having the vaccine I might have to step away from the Internet. I desperately wanted to hug my family at my dad's funeral a few weeks ago but couldn't. I want to travel a couple of hundred miles to hug and comfort my sibling but I can't. Neither of us is on the vaccine priority list so I assume it's going to be many more months before restrictions are lifted allowing me to hug them.

I should add, it's not that I begrudge people getting hugs, I'm just not sure I can bear reading about it without getting upset that I can't do it.

Chuffed for you!

How old are they?

Just wondering when my parents might get theirs.

I'm delighted for you op, I can't wait until my parents get theirs hopefully some time in the next month or so. DH is frontline so got his first one last week, I'm not and would be very far down the list so am very jealous of him.

That's lovely. So pleased for you.

I am delighted for you, please ignore any negativity, someone will always have a worse deal than someone else so for you this is amazing and should be celebrated, I am genuinely happy for you 😊

@tessiegirl

Why do people think they will be able to live a normal life with the vaccine?

Exactly.

We can't start having a set of rules for each person, the rules will be the same for at least the next six months. And it's not 100% effective.

Plus, the two shots are three to four weeks apart and the immunity doesn't start until after another three weeks. So even if you ignore the lack of 100% cover, it's seven weeks away, not four.

So pleasedfir you and them.

I can't wait to get mine. I'm 40 Ecv and have not left the house since April and only then to have my C section! It's bee an awful time to have a baby. My older dc’s have been going to school and I've lived in fear of them passing it on to me. My consultant called me at the start of the pandemic to advise me to stay in and stay away from everyone- if I get it I won't survive it and to leave such young children without a Mommy would be unbearable for them and my do. We've all been so worried.
Hope is on the horizon!

I thought it was only effective after the second dose?

This is such a lovely, happy post.

It's not pissing on people's fires to say that the vaccine is not a panacea. The vaccine is meant to be another weapon in the arsenal, it's not a guarantee. It's to make people like op relatives go to the supermarket with SD with Mask etc. Hugging etc will still not be advised.

she's wheelchair bound

A more appropriate term is “full time wheelchair user”

I genuinely felt that getting the appointment for mine was the best Christmas present!

@Ffsnosexallowed

How come you'll be able to hug her? Sorry to put a dampner on things, but having the vaccine doesn't change the rules.

You don't sound sorry.