Oh dear I’m sorry about that, never hear much about premiture babies but I know that they can have a few health problems.
Thanks Logan1 for your comments. I never realised either, until I worked it out, the NHS wasn’t around in those days either (1946), so I guess my parents would have had to pay for treatment, no idea as they never spoke about my early days. However, the good thing is that I am still here and all that was over 75 years ago. That poor start in life might even have ‘toughened me up’ as I have had very little illness in my life, fortunately. Something, I don’t know what, has made me determined to ‘just get on with it’ so that’s exactly what I always do.
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I had whooping cough as a child @logan1 I must have been about three back in 1952. Under the doctors advice I was taken to Bridlington for a week in a caravan in the depths of winter. Apparently the sea air is good for whooping cough. I recovered and although been a smoker for thirty odd years until 2004 I’ve never had trouble with my chest since. I became a marathon and fell runner for most of my life.
Just back from being boosted and no problems, in fact the hardest bit was sitting down for fifteen minutes afterwards! They say I may feel some effect later but that would be unusual for me, so we’ll just have to wait and see.
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Don’t yet qualify for mine, will be later this month. Will definitely be taking it.
Booster jab given, but what a wait for it. Long up hill walk to the place where it was being done too. Daughter had to park at the bottom in a car park as she wasn’t allowed to drive up & drop me off. Great!. I got out the car & she said she’s wait for me.
Didn’t seem to matter what time slot you had, so many queuing to get jabs, not just booster either, all of them. I stood in the queue in front of a couple a bit younger than me & a young lad in front of me, we all got chatting, like you do if together for a length of time. The couple were there for their booster jabs, but the lad was having his second jab. We joined the first queue that snaked around in a zigzag, got booked in then joined another queue which also snaked around, then were sent through doors into another room where we queued once again. Until we reached an area where we could see cubicles, nearly there we said to each other. Then ushered through to more tables & gave all the same info to the person seeing us there. The joined another queue & finally got jabbed. Still not the end, we were supposed to wait in a waiting area for 15 mins, sat down but by then I’d had enough, the lad was in a chair beside me & I said to him sod this I’m leaving & he agreed & left as well. Found daughter told her all about it & she said you’ll be sitting in the car for longer anyway. All together was there for 1 hour & 20 minutes, jab took seconds. The place was heaving with people wanting jabs, good though that is, I think there should be more places specially nearer my home where people can get their jabs. No idea why our surgery aren’t doing them.
So far no after effects & it’s 3 hours since I had the booster jab.
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What a faff, never mind, at least you’ve had it now. I was able to book mine online this morning, 27th November, exactly 6months after my second.
I’m going to Boots and the time slots were quite close together so I’m hoping there won’t be gig queues
Yes, it was faff, but done now. I don’t expect Boots will be like that. I went to a football stadium being used for jabs & got to have a look at the pitch too through the windows, think it was held in the VIP lounge area, certainly a very nice carpet on the floor & a bar, sadly closed, 
in the left hand side, never been in there before, not a football fan.
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I am still waiting for the go-ahead for my booster, a couple of weeks to go yet. The queues you describe were like that a couple of years’ ago for the 'flu jab at the local health centre so I went to the village pharmacy who did the jab the next afternoon on an appointment basis. I heard then from the pharmacist that those queues were two-hours long and that applied to older people, those younger and even the disabled. Also this was always on a Saturday but most were over-65s and retired so why the need to queue on such a busy day?
The queues you experienced may have been due to it being Saturday, many people are not working.
Hope there are no after-effects for you anyway.
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Apparently from Monday you can now book your booster after five months rather than six… 
Thanks for posting that, I had no idea it had changed so was waiting for an invitation to book in a couple of weeks’ time. I just checked online to find the existing NHS websites still offering bookings for the booster in six months and one week. It was the links below where I found the information you posted. Others were also listed, most of them either newspapers or news channels. I wonder when this was first announced as being the ‘new advised’ booking interval for the booster jab?
I think that’s what I did. You don’t have your jab at five months after your second, it’s still 6 months but it lets you make your booking now, fo a months time.
The dates it offered me were all six months after my second one
“Anyone over the age of 50 will be able to book their Covid booster a month early from Monday, as the Government steps up efforts to stop waning immunity in the population hitting this winter.
The changes mean that people can pre-book the top-up jab when five months have elapsed after their second dose, to time the appointment for exactly six months on.”
Thanks Maree, I’ve just checked and my six months and one week are up on 07 November 2021 (tomorrow) so the earlier booking will not apply to me. I thought at first it would but after checking it seems not. They (NHS?) have been very slow in letting people know about this I reckon, had it not been for seeing about this on OFC I would not have been aware of it anyway. Thanks spitfire for the thread about this.
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Ain’t made me mind up yet, folks seem to be obliging in large numbers, who, would have previously felt no need to mingle, a lot of folks seem to want to reserve the right to do something, they would not choose to do under ordinary circumstances, brinksmanship is the order of the day, maybe.
Are we up for boosters you ask?
No. Not for me thanks.
Yes, that was the title of the thread, and thanks for the answer Mups.
That is what I gathered too. Should have gone mid week, but thought it would be better not to have to get daughter out of work to take me. Next time I’ll do it a different day.
I am fine thanks, arm isn’t even sore. Had Pfizer this time was AZ the other two.
On the Radio, this morning, there was a report of “Millions” of UK Citizens still not taking up the offer of the Jabs.
Can’t help wondering if this is because of their Race, beliefs, Nationality?
The Beeb is never going to tell us the answer, to that, but it might be important when considering the safety of others?
That’s great news and yes things like that can toughen you up.
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It’s only been lately that the places that we went has had the vaccine. Hubby had his booster last Thursday and now Tesco is rolling them out but have to have a code from the NHS website and its going to be 5 months instead of 6. So hopefully from tomorrow I can book mine because mine was later. So I wouldn’t blame the people for not having it, I think that they want it, it’s the teenagers that need a rocket up them saying that they haven’t got the time 
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