Kerry W.
Kerry W. is the assistant nurse manager on the M.M. Ewing Continuing Care Center’s Skilled Transitional Unit, which became the facility’s COVID-19 unit for a period of time following an outbreak that began around the holidays. All the rooms on the unit are private, and there was low occupancy on it at the time.
Kerry had hesitated to get the vaccine because it was new and she felt like there was not yet enough information out there about it. Then, more than half of the unit’s staff members tested positive and were not able to work.
“It was like, ‘We cannot lose anybody else. I need to go get my shot. We’ve got people to take care of,’” she said.
At the same time, Kerry said, more information was coming out about the vaccine and she was feeling more comfortable about it.
With her first Moderna dose, she had arm pain. With the second, she had body aches for 36 hours. Then, “like the flip of a switch, it went away completely,” said Kerry, who feels like she made the right decision for her.
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