Our bubble includes more vaccinated loved ones every week. The stress of waiting to qualify is gone as the age restrictions have been lifted, everyone age 16 and up in Wisconsin now qualifies. I hear fewer anecdotes about not being able to get an appointment and see more postings about “no waiting” opportunities, so it seems the entire vaccination process has improved.
For the first time since last March, Viv was able to visit Nonna. Hugs and coffee in her lovely sunroom, an impromptu knitting lesson. Such normal, small things. So profound I can hardly look at the photos without tearing up.
We have hoped for this day, I have feared this day might not come, we have judged our every move from getting groceries to attending school on its possible effect on this getting to this day. We have endured hospital stays where we couldn’t see each other, holidays apart, long nights scared that we might lose someone before we saw them again.
I am deeply grateful for science, for logistics, for pharmacists, even for website builders. The string of people required to get those shots in our arms, it’s amazing.
Despite all the current social chaos, the heated climate (both figurative and literal), we are an amazing society when we want to be.