Good news and bad news
By Fleur
@Fleura (35063)
United Kingdom
March 19, 2021 8:00am CST
The good news is I have booked my Covid vaccinations - yay!
The bad news is I booked them in the wrong place : (
I previously received two invitations by text message from my local GP practice, asking me to follow a link. I wasn’t completely sure about that at first, so I didn’t do anything. However after checking that the link seemed legitimate I still didn’t want to faff about on the little phone screen and I was too lazy to type out the rather long link in my web browser on the laptop.
Then I received an email from the NHS inviting me to book by going to the NHS website. That was much simpler so I went through that and have booked the two vaccinations, three months apart.
Only after receiving confirmation did I realise that the invitations were different - the ones from the GP surgery invited me to attend there, while the one from the NHS invited me to attend one of their regional vaccine centres.
So I could have just walked 5 minutes down the road but now I’ll have to drive about 20 minutes each way instead. Bother.
I’m just hoping it’ll be a nice day and then perhaps I can go the scenic way by bicycle instead.
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@Fleura (35063)
• United Kingdom
19 Mar 21
There is that - but if I go via the 'scenic route' over the river it's actually only 3 miles. I haven't heard of people having side effects that bad - I could always walk home. Or if I was really stuck I could call my partner to come and collect me I guess!
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17242)
• China
24 Mar 21
On the whole, it is good news.Don't know if the one from the GP and the one from the NHS are the same brand.
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@Tampa_girl7 (54715)
• United States
26 Mar 21
It is wonderful that you have them scheduled.
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@DianneN (254926)
• United States
10 Apr 21
You were so lucky to get two offers for bookings. I do know which one you went to at this point.
For me, it was an online madhouse. I checked in after a while and found someone’s cancellation. That’s how I got my appointment. So what if it was a 36 minute drive away. It was in my hometown and we took a drive down memory lane while there “ twice! 
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
20 Mar 21
I too have registered but there was no choice. When I make up my mind I will get to the centre of my choice.
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@toniganzon (77224)
• Philippines
20 Mar 21
20 minute drive isn’t that far anyway. But of course it would have been better if I you could just have taken a walk.
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@BelleStarr (61463)
• United States
19 Mar 21
lol Yes well my case was slightly different but I ended up driving over 20 miles on each occasion to two different locations. I hope it is a nice day so you can ride your bike.
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@kobesbuddy (78833)
• East Tawas, Michigan
19 Mar 21
I'm glad your shots are booked, a twenty minute drive isn't too bad. My second one is scheduled for April 1, then I'm all done.
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