Poetry Friday: Vaccine Days

2/25/2021

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There's been quite a bit of chatter about the Covid-19 Vaccines. I don't recall a time that there has been more excitement over shots. And it feels like winning the lottery to get an appointment which I have today (which means I might get to sub in April).

We moved last June. Two items that surfaced recently were my immunization cards for the Polio vaccine fifty-nine years ago. I have this glimmering of being in the big space that was the auditorium of my father's school, Clifton. We were given a sugar cube with the dose.

pokey-poke
hope on horizon
two vaccines
© jone rush macculloch (2021 draft)

Carol Wilcox link

2/26/2021 02:09:44 am

I remember the sugar cube thing too! And I was telling my kids at school about it, and they thought I was crazy. A sugar cube??? Instead of a shot you had a sugar cube?? And like you, mine was at a school, Longfellow Elementary, to be exact. I'm getting the second dose tomorrow.

janice scully link

2/26/2021 11:24:09 am

This is so interesting, Joan! You and I got our vaccines at around the same time and I don't remember a card. Your haiku sums up the experience nicely.

Kathryn Apel link

2/26/2021 02:20:04 am

Oh, youchies, Jone. The vaccine is a good thing - but me getting it...😬 That pokey-poke made it much too real.

Tabatha link

2/26/2021 03:45:43 am

Congrats on winning the vaccine lottery, Jone! That's cool you have your old polio vaccine cards.

Linda Mitchell

2/26/2021 03:50:26 am

When I first read pokey-poke all I could see was hokey pokey. Now, I'm singing, "stick your left arm out, stick your left arm out. Get the vaccine and give a little shout." Ha! I'm scheduled for #2 on Monday and I will be ready. I hate that it feels like a lottery right now. I'm hopeful that the reports of massive numbers of doses being delivered soon are true!

Linda Baie link

2/26/2021 03:02:24 pm

I remember getting it at the doctors, don't know why, but he was a family friend, so maybe that? I do remember the staying home & no swimming, etc., a sad time then, too. Glad you have your app't. I will get my 2nd dose tomorrow, glad to have it!

Laura Shovan

2/27/2021 07:46:19 am

"Hope on the horizon" -- I'm grateful for the vaccines, though it will be some time before I'm eligible. Jone, I just learned from a radio interview that the sugar cube you had with the polio vaccine -- that was the inspiration for "Spoonful of Sugar" in Mary Poppins!

Mary Lee

2/27/2021 07:54:48 am

Such a timely artifact and memory! Today was my second shot. Fingers crossed that my symptoms are mild!

Kay Jernigan McGriff

2/27/2021 04:52:54 pm

Yea! I hope your shot went well without too many uncomfortable side effects. It will be awhile before I'm able, but I'm looking forward to it. I love the pokey-poke!

Sally Murphy link

2/28/2021 12:16:02 am

How timely that you found that link to another time. I'm glad your turn has come round again, and the hope that holds,. Also smiled at the 'pokey-poke'. Clever!

KAREN EDMISTEN link

2/28/2021 11:38:05 am

Hope on the horizon indeed. Can't wait! :)

Ruth link

3/2/2021 11:49:06 am

I remember the sugar cube too! I'm so glad I'm not the only one! I have so many vaccination memories from childhood, and this brought some of them back. Thank you!

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