Hip Pains and Chills

Wouldn’t you know it? I trusted the political and medical establishment, and I paid the price. I got a booster yesterday, and last night I had chills.

Both my original vaccination and my booster came from J&J. After the first shot, I seemed to feel a little tired for a few days, but the sensation was so slight, I wasn’t sure it had anything to do with side effects. I didn’t have any other symptoms, such as chills. Last night, my nose ran briefly, and then my butt started to hurt. I used nasal spray so I would be able to sleep, and I figured that would fix everything.

I had to get up and go to my garage for something. It was cold out there. For some reason, we get a type of cold weather here that seems to get into the bones even if you’re indoors. I can’t explain it. When it’s both cold and wet, I sense the cold even in the house. We are having that kind of weather now. When I got back from the garage, I felt cold. I shivered a few times, and I realized I was having chills.

I took a hit of ivermectin, put wool socks on, got in bed, turned the electric blanket up all the way, and roasted myself all night like a yam.

I took the ivermectin because I thought I might have coronavirus, not shot side effects. There is no reason why you can’t get sick the same day you get the shot.

I started having weird thoughts. The shot uses adenoviruses to make the body produce antibodies to the covid spike protein, so I assume that means it actually gives people adenovirus infections. What if taking ivermectin, which may have antiviral effects, fights the infection and makes the shot less effective?

Like I always say, I don’t know if ivermectin does anything for me or not. My symptoms used to collapse after I took it, but that could be coincidence, and I don’t know whether I had covid or other things. But I couldn’t help wondering if it might work against the booster.

I wondered why I was having a reaction I didn’t have the first time around. Is my body getting annoyed with the shots for some reason? Is it losing its ability to cope? Will I be dead before I have to make my next American Express payment?

The web says the J&J booster is exactly the same as the vaccine, so my issues aren’t caused by a higher dose.

When I got up today, my butt still hurt a little, and my nose still felt a little funny, but that was about it. I guess my hip joints will return to normal today.

I had a hard time getting my body warm. It surprised me that I had to use the blanket’s top setting. If my wife had been with me, I think she would have had to make some kind of arrangement to get away from the heat. I wasn’t sweating at all, so I had no reason to turn the heat down to a reasonable level. I considered throwing a couple more blankets on the bed, but I didn’t really want to walk across that cold 75-degree room and lose all the heat I had stored up under the covers.

The experience brought back memories. When I was a kid, it seemed like I had tonsillitis once a week, so I had many fevers. They gave me lots of shots. I doubt the shots did anything but hurt, because there was never any reason to think the infections were bacterial. I remember getting 6 million units of penicillin once. The syringe looked like a basketball pump.

Back then, doctors liked to give people giant doses of antibiotics whether they made sense or not. I don’t know why they did that. Maybe they made a lot of money on the shots.

Doctors do things like that. The doctor who gave me 6 million units used to tell his Medicaid patients their Medicaid would be canceled if they didn’t come in once a month, and he added his own pharmacy to his practice, creating an obvious conflict of interest.

My mother got so used to my fevers, she once went out to dinner with my dad when I was up over 103. I don’t think that was a good idea, but it happened. As I recall, I had a bottle of alcohol to rub on myself if needed.

I wandered the empty house in a daze, wearing nothing but a pair of gym shorts. I was nearly delusional. It was somewhat pleasant, like being on drugs.

Last night I thought about that, and I remembered something I had forgotten. Fevers and chills can be enjoyable. When you have chills, it feels great bundling up and baking yourself until you warm up. When you have a fever, you enter a dreamy, somewhat crazy state that makes it very easy to sleep.

I used to behave very oddly when I had childhood fevers. One one occasion, my mother put me in the car in my pajamas and housecoat to take me to the pediatrician. I was really gone. I obsessed on the fact that I might get another one of those shots. I was a great big 12-year-old kid, and I started crying about it. I was not a cryer, but on that day, I couldn’t help myself. I could not face that shot. And of course, I got it.

So how am I now? I almost have a headache, my nose is not quite right, my appetite is not good, and I’m still waiting for the hip pains to disappear completely. Oddly, I have lots of energy, as usual.

Is the shot doing me any good? No idea. The web says J&J immunity begins to develop after 12 days. Or 14. Or 29. As always, I would like to thank THE SCIENCE for all its help. Another great job of pinning down the facts.

Here’s a question. If coronavirus can run its course in as few as 5 days, which must indicate the development of immunity, why would a shot take 29 days to generate helpful antibodies? Does that make sense to anyone?

No, it doesn’t make sense, and THE SCIENCE doesn’t have the answer. These are my assumptions, anyway, based on two years of science’s abject, indisputable failures. When it comes to coronavirus, THE SCIENCE is a D student, but people still brag that they trust it. This is like bragging that your car’s GPS has a 2002 map update installed.

I don’t trust THE SCIENCE. I rely on it because there is no alternative and because I want to get on airplanes without a hassle. I hope the shot will prevent me from dying if I get sick, but its health benefits are not nearly as certain as its social benefits.

My real source of protection is God, but unfortunately, they won’t let you on a plane just because you pray.