Bird
Epic Contributor
I should have made an appointment there. HEB here is still not opening up to 1-B. In Houston doctors are being offer $10,000 from patients wanting to be put on top of the list.
Yesterday I went to Horizon Medical Center's website: Horizon Medical Center
And then I clicked on "contact us": Contact Us - Horizon Medical Center
I went down to the place you can enter your name, phone number, email address and what you want to ask, which of course was when could we get the vaccine. And this morning a lady called and said for us to be there at 1 p.m. today. It was an interesting experience. I was told that today was their first day and I can believe that. The lady who called told me about a back door that was where we should go.
As I tend to do, I got there early and found that door locked, but a sign on the door indicating I was in the right place. Now a couple of other people also came to the same door, and then a lady inside came to the door and hollered that we had to wait until 1 p.m. Since we were getting a drizzle of rain, we went back the car to wait, then back to the door and at exactly 1 p.m. a lady opened the door and let ONE person in and locked the door again. After a few minutes she returned, and let Margaret and me in, leaving several outside.
A young lady took our ID and insurance cards to make copies, tried to take out temperature, but her instrument didn't work, so they passed on that. Then she gave us clipboards with 3 pages of information, and two pages of very short questions. They had folding chairs spaced out down the hall, so I filled out their little questionnaires and they returned our ID cards and put the copies they'd made on the clipboards and took them somewhere.
Then a nurse (at least I think she was a nurse) took us, one at a time into another big room with one of the chairs with built in armrests, asked me which arm I wanted it in, and gave me a vaccination. Later my wife mentioned it seeming like a small amount of vaccine and small needle; something I'd also noticed. And then she had each of us return to our seats in the hall for 15 minutes before leaving. Some of the paperwork they gave us mentioned the possibility of a reaction and told about all the preparations to handle such, if it happened, which of course it did not. We got the Moderna Covid-19 vaccine.
And they're supposed to call when it's time for the second injection.