That Moderna vaccine makes a nasty bruise. Sheesh.
Must have been a bad stick. Shouldn't cause a bruise. Sorness yes, bruise, no.
Possibly, although bruising is a listed potential side effect. I also got a mild, non-itchy rash.
Both still better than the alternative.
Better than the *potential* alternative. A large group of people got COVID with no or limited symptoms. Others died. It's a nasty and unpredictable bug.
We still suspect it might have gone through the house in February of 2020. There was no reliable way to get tested then, so we'll never know. But we all got hammered by upper respiratory symptoms including an ugly cough that stuck around for most of a month. I took several days off work, and the agency had my desk sanitized. I never made it back to the office, because the agency sent everybody remote at that same time.
We didn't think it was COVID at the time, nor did the urgent care center I visited - everyone thought it was too early in the pandemic for it to have reached our small town, and while it was chronic and long-lasting, it wasn't all that severe. But we later learned that Enumclaw was the site of one of the earliest nursing home outbreaks. We have numerous friendship ties to that nursing home. So who knows?