✏ Teacher Chit Chat #8: My COVID19 Vaccine Story

Not my most glam pic ever but, yeah.

 One of the things most of us have been waiting for this year is the COVID19 vaccine. I know this process has been different depending on the country but over here, they seem to be taking baby steps. Not complaining tho, it's better than doing nothing.  

Last weekend they announced that the vaccination for teachers would start this week and that we all had to register online to get the vaccine. Of course everyone wanted to register and the system wasn't exactly the best one, it was impossible for most of us. 

I do consider myself lucky because my school gave us big support and did their best to get us the vaccine and even tho we had to wait in line for hours, on May 13th, I officially got my vaccine.

Finally getting close!

It it the first time I feel happy, excited and thankful to get a vaccine, ever. It's a big relief. I know how privileged I am and how much we exposed ourselves leaving the house for work for so long. 

The vaccine we got was the Chinese CanSino one, which didn't make me too happy at the beginning because, from what I've read, only has like a 65% rate preventing COVID. They wanted to apply that one because it is only 1 single shot. In the end, it's better than not getting anything at all.

After getting the vaccine, I didn't really feel bad, just weird and with a slight headache. I don't usually get weird reactions with vaccines so I thought it'd be the same with this one. Oh dear, was I wrong...

My headache never went away and around 12:00am I woke up shivering like crazy, I got the worst fever ever and my whole body and skin were aching. I felt like that the whole night so, obviously, I couldn't sleep. Luckily, I didn't have classes the next day so I could recover. I was still feeling really, really bad, and I didn't feel like eating anything. I spent the whole day in bed napping, but I don't think I've felt that bad in a while. A long while.

Funny thing was, I was back to nomal on the next day. No more pain (other than my arm, which is still very sore as I'm typing this) and no more fever.

I know this won't be the same experience for everyone, most of my coworkers didn't have such a hard time with the side effects. But, other than that, I'm very lucky and thankful to say I'm already vaccinated.

So, what's next? I'm not quite sure, all I know is I'll still be very careful and continue with the whole social distance thing, the mask and all that stuff we're so used to now. 

Can't wait for other people I love to get the vaccine too so I can finally give them a big hug.

Relaxing Tea Quotes | Yogi Tea Stress Relief |

People who know me know how bad I am when it comes to yoga, meditation and just relaxation in general, which I know it's not a good thing. I tend to stress easily but I didn't think I showed it... much until I recieved this tea. It was kinda funny when it was gifted to me. Usually my stress reliever is Sake haha, but I never actually thought that tea could actually work for me. Not that I never heard about it but I've never been much of a tea person.

This tea is caffeine free and includes lavender, chamomile, lemon balm and organic honey.

But I have to admit that after trying this particular one, I believe tea can be a big help. The one I've been drinking is the Honey Lavender Stress Relief tea, which sounds like a very floral taste but it is actually pretty good. (I'm not a fan of flowery tastes) It's a mix of floral, slightly sweet and citric taste. Of course I like to sweeten it with some sugar, maybe honey would be even better... idk.

The box comes with 16 tea bags.

This tea line, and the brand in general seem to be very focused on health, relaxation, yoga (hence the name, I believe) and meditation. And from what I saw, all their products are organic.

I don't drink it everyday tho, only when I feel stressed or when I can't seem to fall asleep even if I'm tired. I like to have a cup in the evening, before the night routine and I swear I have a really good sleep.

Now that is so hot over here, I've had it as an iced tea too!

I've been loving metal straws.

Something I really liked about it is that each tea bag comes with a different motivational, nice quote that gives an extra something to the drinking experience. 

From what I've seen, they have a big variety of tea and even cold drinks! Which I'd love to try one day.

Here is their website if you want to check their tea and flavors, depending on what you're looking for. Yogi Tea.

They also have a blog with some organic recipes.

My experience taking a COVID test

Earlier this month I had to take a COVID test as a requirement before going back to work. I'm sure the case is similar in different places but, cases have been increasing a lot over here lately, especially after the Holidays. 

Even knowing that I've been home as much as possible and didn't meet or got reunited with anyone (aside from work), taking the test was a scary experience. Something I should mention here is that I find everything doctor/dentist related scary.

The appointment was at the school I work in, two doctors were there perfectly covered up and protected (astronaut style! Hehe) to do the tests.

My turn was like the 8th, I was so relieved because I didn't have to go first.

The test I took was the RCP test (idk if it's the name everywhere), and is the one where they use a long nasal swab to take samples from both nostrils. It is also known as the molecular test and it detects the genetic material of the virus that causes COVID-19. I've read that they also do this test through the throat... I'm lucky I didn't have to take that one!! Apparently the results from this text can be very accurate.

The thing is, the swab thing goes deep in the nose which makes it super uncomfortable and, it kinda hurts. Part of it was my fault tho, they ask you to try not to make any expression to avoid the pain, but I just couldn't do it. 

I'm going to be honest here, the test is not nice, but it's not as horrible as I thought it'd be. It is uncomfortable, yes. And it did hurt, and my nose was sore for the rest of the day but, it was not something I couldn't stand.

It only took a couple of minutes and after that, I had to wait for my results. In a way I knew I didn't have much contact with people since my holidays started but, you never know. So yeah, I was nevous (again).

After 15 minutes aprox, I got my results! It was negative! 

The doctors did explain that this results showed that I have probably not been infected with the virus. And I say probably because it doesn't show if you had it before. And this result could change from one day to another if I had contact with other people a couple of weeks before taking the test (around 15 days) and also if I were to meet people the days after it. 

Of course they also told me I should continue taking care, wearing my mask and quarantining as much as possible. As well as paying attention in case I present any symptom.

My school covered more than half of the price for this test and as far as I know I'll have to take it every now and then just to make sure everything is alright. Especially since I do have to go out for work.

I know this is a bit of a different post but some of you were actually interested in reading about my experience. I don't think I covered muc because they mentioned other things that I don't remember and i'm no expert but, this is a bit of what happened. You can take this and other tests in different laboratories and I guess the prices vary depending on where you go.

Stay safe everyone! x

My most painful experience so far! (>3<)

Hi babies!
Since I was a little girl, I always had this fear of going to the dentist, and because of that I kinda stopped going even though I knew one of my molars needed some attention.

Of course, as time went by, the tooth started to deteriorate to the point that it broke into pieces. So I had to be brave and make an appointment with the dentist who told me he needed to remove the tooth, as scary as it sounds I thought it'd be better. I kinda knew it would be painful and I'd even have to take a day off from work but I didn't expected that after over an hour of trying to remove the tooth and like 3 shots of anesthesia I would need surgery~

I never had a surgery before, just the name itself makes it scary. I just wanted it to be over, I was all sore, I even cried. But it had to be done, so the next day I had the appointment with another doctor to perform the surgery. Even though it only took her 30 mins. to finish the whole thing, it felt like forever. It was the scariest thing ever.

Recovering was the worst part, it was so hard and painful to eat, it took forever for me to finish a small meal, I couldn't chew or even open my mouth for like a week. Brushing my teeth was the worst.

Today after 2 weeks I'm finally having my stitches removed. It is a little annoying having something in there. My gums are not completely healed but at least it doesn't hurt anymore.

Going back to the dentist after so long wasn't a pleaseant experience but I know it was my fault it got this bad. From now on I promised myself to take better care of my teeth to avoid painful experiences. Especially because I'm no good tolerating pain~

I'm just glad it's all over now~ kkk