I still mistakenly write the year as 2020, and it is June 2021.
I want my year back!
That said, as soon as vaccines were available where I lived, I eagerly waited to qualify. They first gave it to all the first responders and the medical staff. Next, they made it available to the elderly and disabled. Eventually, they made it available to essential workers, and normally, that would be me, but I had recently had a change in profession, so I didn't qualify. This dragged on for
months.
Finally, they made it available for anyone who had a preexisting medical condition (2 or more) and folks who were not exactly seniors but were generally older. Naturally, that meant I still did not qualify for the vaccine. Again, more waiting was required.
General availability did not happen until mid-April. I was able to get my vaccine a week before general availability to the public (I had shown up to an empty slot). As much as I wanted the Pfizer vaccine, it seemed like that would not happen anytime soon, so I accepted the Johnson & Johnson vaccine. 1 week after reviewing the vaccine, I hear in the news about the possible side effects.
Thankfully, that turned out to be nothing major and only impacted a few women (I'm a guy).
As much as I wanted to return to living my life, I needed to wait for other people within my household to get vaccinated. They had been on the list for months, and one of them even qualified for medical reasons but somehow didn't get called upon (they technically should have been vaccinated well before me). We assume the wait time just happened to be that long. It was not until almost mid-May when they received their 1st Pfizer shot, and just before the end of May, they received their 2nd shot. That meant I still had to wait until their body developed the antibodies (for them to be completely vaccinated).
June, everyone is vaccinated, and I am ready to enjoy my life to the fullest, whatever that means. Sadly, I lost a lot of people to the coronavirus. I wish everyone had taken COVID-19 seriously. But I made it, and I am vaccinated.