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Onebrokelady

Sorry to hear you have the dreaded side effects today Foxgloves,I hope they clear off soon. I went up to the top of my garden where the twirly washing line lives to peg my washing out and had to do a quick weeding session on Monday, the weeds up there were knee height after all the rain, it's like a jungle at the moment but I haven't got time to sort it out,I will need a machete at this rate 😀

foxgloves

Aww, Snap, HHoD, we can be the yukky jab twins today. I feel worse than last time to be honest. I'm sure it will start to lift soon. Mr F is owed loads of time at work & has just texted he'll be home a couple of hours earlier so he can make me a cup of tea. It's an odd feeling, isn't it? It feels like flu, when you have that bad head & can sort of feel the virus in your system, but without the cough or other specific symptoms. Paracetamol having virtually no effect at all. I expect we will both feel brighter tomorrow. Take care now,
F x

HairyHandofDartmoor

I feel worse than last time too, which is strange because common theory says that you feel better after the second one. Trust us to be different 🙄 . I never get headaches normally but my head felt like it was full of concrete when I woke up this morning and like you paracetamol didn't make any difference. After the first jab I felt tired and achey for two days, but after my second jab I'm feeling headachey and nauseous, so completely different symptoms 🤔. Hopefully we'll both feel better tomorrow. My headache improved by lunchtime and went after a walk in the fresh air but I still feel a bit nauseous.

foxgloves

Thanks, @Onebrokelady. Yes, very weedy here too - not so much my borders atm, as they are so packed with plants that it helps to shade out the weeds. The beds in the vegetable plot which we have not yet planted are shockingly weedy. All that rain boosted them no end. Had May not been a soggy wash-out, we'd have had the whole veggie garden weeded, dug over & raked by now.
F x

Narola1976

Sorry to hear you’re feeling unwell Foxgloves after the second jab. Funnily I have felt fine, for the most part. I felt tired but not ill at all which is a massive difference to the first jab. But I reserve judgement because my arm developed a bump and infection requiring antibiotics two weeks AFTER my jab. So who knows...Get well soon x

foxgloves

It's odd, isn't it @HairyHandofDartmoor. I also thought side effects would be much less 2nd time around. Then my sister told me that a couple of her friends who'd been for their 2nd jab had experienced worse symptoms than first time around. My headache has improved but I still don't feel right. Last time, the side effects only lasted 24 hours. Ah well, let's think positive & hope we have a good night's sleep & feel back to normal tomorrow.
Time for another bedspread square so I can knit while I watch 'Sewing Bee'.
F x

foxgloves

Thanks @Narola1976, I think we cross-posted. Yes, these side effects are quite varied, aren't they? I had a sore arm first time round, which improved, but after about 3 weeks or so, it became sore & itchy all over again. I was rubbing a whole load of 'Skin Food' into it (my answer to everything!) I didn't need any treatment though. You have certainly had a bad reaction with your arm. As HHoD said, the nasty side effects show how poorly we'd be if we actually caught the virus so they make me even more glad to have had the vaccine.
F x

foxgloves

Gooooood mooooorniiiing Money Savers!
Tired this morning, as woke at around 4 am again, but the jab-induced headache appears to have gone, fingers crossed. That's just as well, as everywhere I look atm I can see a job. I need a plan. Think I will start in the kitchen where I can have my audiobook on, then have some time at my desk as i haven't done any budget updates since last week, then after lunch if no jabby symptoms re-appear, I will aim for a really useful gardening session.
Ok, that's a plan, chat later,
F x

foxgloves

Much better day than yesterday. Sore arm but apart from that, normal service has resumed.
Hello diary readers, Hope you've all seen a bit of sunshine today. Quite cool & overcast here this morning, but after lunch, the sun decided to grow a pair, & it has been a lovely bright day ever since. Have felt quite productive. Baked a sourdough loaf, made a batch of Delia's spicy chickpea burgers & froze half for further meals. Caught up with a few financials - just the usual budget updates, admin & filing - but it needed doing. This afternoon, I've forked over a bed in the veggie garden & planted out lettuces. The runty ones have gone in a pot inside the greenhouse door as they will provide a few cuttings for sandwiches, salads, etc. Mr F has just pinged me to say he's defo picking up the grocery shopping on his way past the supermarket, so that will be another thing done.
I could fancy a walnut whip but am determined not to have one until next Cheat Day which is 20th June. Until then, I am identifying my next 'too tight' top as a target & polishing my halo 😇.
Be safe m'dears,
F xx

foxgloves

Hello Diary Friends,
Useful day. Postponed our walk/outing till the weekend, as I felt a bit nauseous first thing - am wondering if it is another effect of my recent jab, tho didn't experience it last time. Anyway, on to the positives. Town this morning. Not much money spent - just market for our fruit & veg, some bird food & I chose a birthday card for B-in-L. Mr F's day off & he offered to clean the entire house if I sorted out the heap of stuff on the landing waiting to be properly arranged in the newly painted linen cupboard. That was a deal! Also took the opportunity finally to make new free ironing board cover from a vintage quite pretty sheet which we no longer use. So that was a bit of shopping from home. Yeah, ironing board covers aren't expensive but who wouldn't rather spend the cash on something else? V dull purchase indeed! 
Garden decisions this pm, then progress. I think I'll start a 2nd post for that...hang on...
F