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General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: roger on 06 Apr, 2021, 12:46:28 pm
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To keep people up to date with progress.
I am 77
Born December 43
I have just received a text for my first jab tomorrow in olula, second booked for 28th.
So making good progress.
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I don't know if it's a coincidence but this morning I realised that I had not entered my phone number in my salud respond app.
After updating 2 hours later I got the text.
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I wish I could work out where to update it
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As I had my first vaccine jab last Wed 31/3 also at Olula and I was born Dec 42 it looks l as if they are doing the over 75's for this area every Wednesday, a year group per week. i.e. Me last week aged 78, Roger this week aged 77, could also be coincidence but, :cheesy: :cheesy:
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Roger, I'm also getting my first tomorrow in Olula. How did you get the date for your second? I was told I'd be given it tomorrow.
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Judi, your medical centre might be able to tell you. That's who was supposed to contact e to go last week but had my phone number wrong. Another Lady, who'd had her first a good few weeks back asked how I knew about tomorrow's appt and as she had nt heard went to the Health Centre in Olula and she should also have gone last week but now has an appointment for tomorrow as she'd been missed. As they are so busy I think they only telephone a couple of times and if there is no response try someone else...
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I received two text messages.
One giving the first jab.
Then one giving the second jab.
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The problem is that they may have your fixed phone.
Using your mobile they usually send a text.
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Frankie, as I said I had my first jab last week and after it I was given a slip of paper with the date for the second on it.
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That explains why then, as I got tomorrow's appt via the Health Centre direct in Olula yesterday.
Hopefully I will get my second date tomorrow,
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To add your phone number to the salud respond app
Tap the wheel at the top that.
Then tap the first option.
Shows your phone number.
If bank just type it in.
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Done that, thanks all. Born 1948 so maybe next week
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I'm 1945 so could also be in the next couple of weeks. :wink:
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Sounds as if we all are in the 40's club. A good vintage decade. :laugh:
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Hi have received a text to say my vaccination is tomorrow at the Pabellon Huercal Overa, I think that is the Municipal sports centre in av, Felipe V1. Can anyone confirm that address. I am in Arboleas. Thanks.
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It must be absolutely wonderful to have a telephone signal and receive these messages.
Do you remember this "half promise" from last year : https://thearboleasforum.com/index.php/topic,1258.0.html
but at least we know the Mayors priority, get his Roman Mine prettied up before thousands of tourists arrive :crazy:
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Billy
Simple.
Past Lidl on your right.
At the roundabout turn left heading for the hospital.
The sports Hall is on your left.
But the car park is on the right.
If it's anything like olula they will direct you into the car park to queue.
Then direct you to the vaccination point under a tent which I suspect will be in the car park.
Someone will check who you are from his list.
Then you drive forward. Window open.
Upper arm exposed.
Quick jab.
Them send to another queue to wait for 15 minutes before you can leave.
How old are you?
70s or 60s.
Today it was 70s for Pfizer in olula.
It seems to be there every Wednesday.
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Hubby had his first jab almost 2 weeks ago at Albox and was given a card with his appointment for the second jab next Friday. He was informed of the first jab only by phone not text.
A translator has told friends that Albox will no longer be used because of the traffic congestion it caused. I wonder if we will be told where to go? His was Moderna
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There were Albox/Arboleas people at the Olula vaccine centre yesterday, Judi.
Roger, thanks for saying it was the Pfizer jab there yesterday as I was so gob smacked a) at how efficient they were and b) that I felt nothing and thought she was still swabbing my arm preparatory to giving the jab, until I saw her walking away, that I forgot to ask which one it was.. I even asked was she terminado! In fact the whole thing was done and dusted in around 35 minutes, excluding the wait time to see if any of us would have a rickedy turn (there were 3 of us), so possibly 45 in total. I was well impressed. :clap: :clap: :clap:
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We got there 30 minutes early and left 5 minutes before my actual appointment time, including 15 minutes waiting time afterwards. Didn't feel a thing but must admit my arm wasn't swabbed before the injection, no cotton wool afterwards in case of bleed, which it didn't. I hardly felt it go in - took less than 2 seconds.
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I’m glad it all went well for people
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Super news, really happy you've been sorted.
News is that there seems to be some sort of a poster stuck to our bus shelter (sic) in the village, saying to notify Danny so he can let us - us being the people in the wilderness - when we are being called. Not particularly sure how he's going to do this but I'll go see the "news" when out with the dog tomorrow, meantime we still wait (12 years on) for a telephone signal to appear.
Wonderful of them to put up 4 mirador seating areas overlooking the Almanzora valley and Arboleas.. tourists are money as the Sex Pistols said :dunno: :crazy:
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I keep seeing messages on Facebook from ayuntamiento Albox, cantoria that we need to phone for an appointment if you have not received an appointment. I am 1945, not quite sure what to do. Also heard a rumour Albox is off limits due to traffic congestion!
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I keep seeing messages on Facebook from ayuntamiento Albox, cantoria that we need to phone for an appointment if you have not received an appointment. I am 1945, not quite sure what to do. Also heard a rumour Albox is off limits due to traffic congestion!
I took someone today born in 1945, yes Albox now not used. It will be Olula del Rio, and Huercal Overa for AZ.
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Albox is still being used :
Confirmed: Those over 80 will receive their second dose at Albox,
Some have appointments for Thursday April 15 and others for Friday April 16, in order to avoid crowds.
(https://tinyurl.com/acpsbkj5) . (https://tinyurl.com/4jsvdrnh)
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Thank you Drax
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Yes they changed it on Monday
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Just been notified my second is due on 28th April.
I'm hearing rumours there is a possibility of a booster to be given along with the flu jab in autumn to take into consideration of any variants. This is from Spanish friend who said it was on TV. Anyone else heard this?
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Yes Frankie, I’ve heard, hopefully will cover everyone over the winter. Then I guess it will be an annual vaccination
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I'd be happy with that as this Covid is not going away. It'll be like many of my childhood illnesses which were killers until vaccines came along. How many do we hear getting polio, diptheria, etc now?
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I will be happy when I get my 2nd jab, due next week. I'll think about booster injections after that. :grin: :cheesy:
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Yes Frankie, these ant-vaccine folk forget what it was like. My Mum lost a sister to diphtheria, my Uncle had TB and I had a friend at school who wore calipers on her legs after having polio
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I can remember being quite upset in hospital when I didn't have calipers but others on the ward did. We did have lovely baths in warm wax though. It was a tin bath but I cannot remember how it was heated.
Thankfully I think it has all but been eliminated in the World now. One day maybe Covid will be...
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Just had mine at Olula. Organised Chaos but done now
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Absolute chaos, Jim had his second today. Arrived at 10.15 for appointment at 10.20. only just arrived home! Me in two weeks time.
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My appointment was 9.49 (very precise) a neighbour had 9.36 so we went together and got there around 9. Vaccination didn't start until about 10.10 and there where well over 100 cars
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It seems to be a bit hit and miss. We had our AZ at Huercal Overa a few weeks ago, in and out no queues. Friends had over an hour queue. I took a neighbour to Olula del Rio two weeks ago, lots of queues, but still only took 40 minutes. Police did a superb job, even though lots of people turned up over an hour early, hence the queues.
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I had my 2nd jab today at Olula and as Roscoe says . absolute chaos! :grin:
My time was supposed to be 10.20am, we arrived in Olula at 10.00 am took approx 90 mins to get in the fairground where the vaccines were being done. Just so many cars everywhere being held in queues. we were queueing on the rambla at one stage Police and medical staff doing a great job but something wrong in the planning maybe of trying to do so many people in the one day, who knows it could just be lots of people without appointments pushing their luck.
Never mind done now, really looking forward to going with the wife when she gets her 2nd jab.
:laugh: :laugh:
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I would rather we have to wait in a queue rather than the paramedics waiting for people to turn up.
The important thing is that the process is moving very fast.
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Just glad to have had it Roger
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So am I, just surprised to see that many cars in Olula at 10am in the morning. :kiss
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Hi, had a 5.27. appointment at Olula, (9.30. had been changed). Straight in no waiting front of the few cars that were there. Jab within 4 minutes, 10 minute wait and out. Very well organised pm. Then to Mercadona which was also very quiet and well stocked. Just lucky I guess.
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I heard that a friend had to queue for nearly 3 hours on wednesday at Olula. The end of the queue was almost as far back as the high street. I have my second next wednesday at 9.17 but the vaccines don't arrive until about 10.
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Best of luck frankie, something seriously wrong with the time spent queuing, don't care what anyone else says. :tiphat:
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I'll let you know how it goes on wednesday. They were very quick and efficient for the first jab in Olula
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I didn't get an appointment for my first vacinnation and found out that my age group had been done the previous week. I went along with some friends, who were younger than me, and I was vacinnated. I seem to have had a conflict with SMS and messenger. Just received a SMS saying that my appointment for Thursday has been cancelled! Well at least messages is now working, so when I get my next appointment I will have to explain this is my second or I could end up getting a third.
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A lot of people's appontments for Wednesday at Olula have been changed to Thursday. I didn't get an SMS but Danny at our Town Hall phoned me. I had checked on Salud Responde, as Roger suggested, and they had our landline so I changed it but maybe too late. As somebody once said ..all's well that ends well...wonder who that was ;)
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My wednesday appt this week in Olula for my second jab has now been changed to thursday.
One of the reasons for the chaos of last wednesday was some people who had appts for the pm were turning up in the morning for it. Obviously they were only taking sufficient doses for the appointments in the morning so ran out of vaccine. I understand that this coming week anyone turning up in the am who has a pm appointment will be turned away...
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My second jab has been moved from Wednesday morning to Thursday afternoon.
SMS system works very well.
My neighbor who is 69 has had her SMS for olula on Friday pm.
It's obviously very complicated to balance supply and demand, not knowing in advance how many vaccines they will have until they arrive.
The important thing is that the system is delivering 100% of the vaccines to people.
Even if we have minor inconvenience.
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Got a surprise text this morning to confirm my 2nd jab on Thursday which was already booked and confirmed 3 weeks ago. Looks like it's going to be busy if they're moving people from Wednesday to Thursday.
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I understand that this coming week anyone turning up in the am who has a pm appointment will be turned away...
and so they should be... :crazy: either that or made to sit in the car park for a few hours until called :whistle:
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I had my second yesterday at Olula. The longest time was waiting for the vaccine to arrive after 9.30
We saw 2 lots being turned away and they were not on foot but in cars.
We were told that soe of he people who live in Olula do walk but they do have to wait in line and they do not take priority. Last wednesday when it was truly chaotic some were parking cars away from the ground and then walking in. Now, they must prove they live in Olula before they are accepted.
I think the team were working really well and they are very efficient.