29 JUL 2021- via DJ: 'Vaccination in Tumbaco / Cumbaya - Quito, Ecuador update: "Okay, guys, so it turns out you can go anytime on or AFTER your assigned day. They are open from 8 AM to 5 PM, 7 days a week. I went to Corazon de Maria just off the Parque Central in Tumbaco. There's also a site in Cumbaya, but I don't know where.

I waited until I could get vacation time from work (and I'm really glad I did) and I went 2 weeks after my assigned date, which was no problem.

After waiting for hours, it was my turn next with my assigned group of 6. They came out of the room and told us they had run out of vaccines! They promised to let us in first the next day if we got there at 8 AM.

I went back the next day and saw a 7-hour line, but they kept their word and let us in before anyone else. It still took one hour from the time we entered until all was done.

Efficiency is not their strong point. They take people in groups of 6 into the vax room. Then each person has to give their data to an intake worker while the person who gives the shots does nothing.

It takes a few seconds to get the shot, but it takes a few minutes to give the intake info. Wouldn't it make more sense to get the intake info during the hours of waiting before people enter the vax room? That would turn a 5-hour wait into a 1-hour wait (at most).

The shot itself is super-easy, even for people who are phobic about needles (like me). I didn't even feel it. I wondered if I'd even gotten it until my arm started hurting later in the day.

After the shot, I walked for 45 minutes because I'd read that it's good to move the arm afterwards plus I figured if I waited I'd be too sick to exercise later in the day.

As the day went on, I got a bad headache and I was quite tired. I slept on and off. That night, the headache was pretty bad, but I was able to sleep most of the time. Day 2, the headache continued and I was really tired and had to sleep a lot. Day 3, I woke up feeling almost normal.

I am really glad I waited until I had time off from work.
There's no way I would have been able to work, and since I couldn't get the vax the first day I went, I needed at least a few days off.

They gave me the Pfizer. I actually tried to get the Sinovac because I'd read that it had fewer side effects, but they were only giving Sinovac as a 2nd dose.

I plan to go for Round Two in mid-August. I've heard the 2nd round is worse than the first, so we'll see. They told me to just show up anytime from 21 days on.

Overall the process was easy and organized except for the ridiculous wait times which are a result of them waiting to get the intake info when the people enter the vax room.

I'm relieved to be through Round One. Not looking forward to Round Two, but it will be over soon enough." -

KS: "If you get an awful headache....more like a migraine which pretty much stops you from being able to do anything and makes you feel physically sick (which happened to me) then you can get a wonderful thing called Migrax from a pharmacy which will end it. Or at least it worked for me. I'd only recommend it if it is incredibly painful and debilitating."

( Photo below: Free beer if you take the killShot so-called vaxx)