Booked a covid jab today

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  1. tosh

    tosh Well-Known Member

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    Got my letter today and went on line to book. As I once had an anaphylactic shock reaction to taking a strong penicillin many year ago I was a bit apprehensive. The letter says that I can discuss this at the time of booking or with a health professional when i go for the jab. Well they are wrong about the first bit so I look like waiting till I get there. I will be a bit pissed off if when I get to the centre they refuse to give it me. Got to travel from Barnsley to Wakey for this. Had to have 2 goes at the booking because you have to book both jabs together and when i got to the end one of the slots was no longer available and it doesn't tell you which one so you have to do it all over again.
     
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    Can’t understand a system wanting over 70s or older or ever others who do not have computer skills to have to book on line.
    Surely a letter or telephone call would be better.
     
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    Three mates allergic to penicillin were cleared to have their shots.
     
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    Who exactly makes these decisions?
    My mate’s father 75 got his jag on Monday. He was called from his doctors surgery and asked to go at a certain time. Got his jag and given a follow up appointment for exactly 6 or 8 weeks later. I can’t remember which it was.
     
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    Give me an expensive sports car, I don't care who makes the decisions...
     
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    arabian_ian Well-Known Member

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    Haha we call the inoculations jags here someone further up the thread wants to shoot you.
     
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    Do they have to book online? Relatives of mine that have had it had both letter and a phone call.
     
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    I’m allergic to penicillin. Checked online and it’s not a problem with the Covid jab.
     
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    The only thing I know is that Alec got a phone call from the doctor surgery and was asked to attend at a certain time.
    Maybe a letter might be sent out if a phone call failed to give a result
     
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    I'm allergic to penicillin too. I'll have your jab if you don't want it :):):):):)
     
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    Doesn't bother me, as a former design draughtsman I have been computer literate since the late 70's.
     
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    Just being allergic maybe isn't, but suffering anaphylaxis can be problematic.
     
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    I too am allergic to penicillin, but never experienced a anaphylactic reaction to it. I had the Pfizer jab just before Christmas , no reaction, still waiting on the second dose.
     
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    All the reading I have done suggests that Pfizer is the one I need to avoid.
     
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    I am also allergic to penicillin but I look forward to which ever vaccine they give me , bring it on .
     
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    OY! We can still work a keyboard without slavering on it tha knows;)
    I got a letter from the NHS a couple of weeks ago giving me a choice of online or telephone booking. Then two days after I'd had my jab, at Wakefield Morrisons but I don't think it was their own label vaccine, I got a text from my doctor offering me a jab!
     
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    I booked my Dad in this week. Nearest one is near the Ruddy Duck in Wakefield or the Sheffield Arena in this direction. OR Holmfirth / Huddersfield / Leeds if he fancied it.

    I understood, wrongly, that he's be able to go somewhere in Barnsley.
     
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    So in Scotland when you're fully vaccinated it's called a Prescott?
     
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    I can only comment on my own experience , I'm under 50 if you feel it relevant. Nothing but a positive experience for me.
     
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    My wife suffered a reaction after a minor operation and they wouldn't give her the Pfizer one, she is waiting now for the Oxford one
     
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