Right Side Effect. Wrong Vaccination

Talking to my sister via Alexa video call earlier.

A: "How's your arm?"

Me: "Still mildly sore to the touch, but less so than yesterday, which was less than Tuesday"

A: "Is there any mark?"

Me: "I can't really see, can you?"

(Short comic interlude of trying to get a dyspraxic person to put his finger in the right spot by remote voice control)

A: "Yes, there. Is that it? Can you see now?"

Me: "Yes, there is something there. I'm pretty sure that's the scar from my BCG."

(So it only predates the mark we were looking for by about 45 years)

I slept all Wednesday afternoon, which I clearly needed, and was still somewhat sleepy today. On reflection this is pretty much how my body handles any bug, so it shouldn't be too much of a surprise to find it doing the same for a vaccination. But given the last vaccination I had was BCG, and I was about 13 at the time, it's probably not unreasonable that I hadn't predicted it.