I live with four annoying auto-immune conditions. So I was a bit worried that my immune system would be too clapped out from constantly fighting my own body to have a productive reaction to the vaccine.
Had the first jab three weeks ago, and if I hadn't watched the needle slide in I would have wondered if I'd actually been vaccinated. No reaction at all for the first and second days, and a slight warmth around the injection site on the third day, which was comforting since it indicated my knackered immune system had noticed the vaccine and was reacting to it.
I've heard that reactions can be worse the first time if you have already been exposed to the virus, and that people who don't react to the first injection might have more of a reaction to the second one. I don't care. I'm counting the days until the next 9 weeks are up, and I can go and get the second jab.
I'm used to feeling crap and spending weeks in bed, so the prospect of having a few grim days reacting to an injection that helps boost my immunity to a deadly virus doesn't bother me. In fact it would make a nice change to be sure, for once, of exactly what had triggered the reaction. Also, it won't arrive just in time to scupper my plans to go out to a theatre performance I've been looking forward to for months, or to prevent me attending a major family celebration.
I'll be just as happy to get any boosters that might be developed to combat different variants. I also take the flu jab every year, and am grateful that it is available, and free.