Kym Balthazar
My partner got her first dose of the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine the other day. She sat anxiously in a plastic chair in a makeshift curtained cubicle next to the Polar seltzer cooler in the back of a CVS Pharmacy in Rutland. Instead of wincing in pain when the nurse jabbed her, she had an entirely unexpected reaction. As the needle went in, she exhaled in relief like she was slipping into a hot bath at the end of a long day: "Ahhhhh."
She then giggled self-consciously, which elicited a chuckle from the nurse. "You'd be
amazed how many people do that," the nurse assured her.