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TIFU by taking my boyfriend to get the vaccine with me

Obligatory this didn't happen today, actually happened about 3 weeks ago! Also sorry for formatting!

This is not an anti-vax post, but I saw a other vaccine related FU and wanted to share

So my boyfriend (20M) and I (21F) got ourselves on a waiting list really early and basically applied to get the shot anywhere that was 45 minutes away or less. Finally, we get a call saying they can get us in together at an elementary school at the actual farthest county we had said we could do. Perfect! Set up the time and then waited for our fateful day. We drove all the way out and were ready to get poked, we even thought we had had good enough food and water that nothing might be problem, save for the small amount of wine I drank several hours beforehand when I forgot we were getting vaccinated. We wait and they take us to a lil table together and ask who wants to go first so my bf does. Then he stands and waits and holds my sweater while I get mine. This is where it gets dicey. I get my shot and I feel fine, ive gotten a lot of shots so I've never been bothered, and they tell us to go wait in the observation area for 15 min. After I get up my bf says "hey can you like, hold my hand? I'm just a little bit dizzy" and of course I do and start doing my best to guage if he's actually gonna be okay or not. About halfway through the school gym we had gotten the shot in, he totally collapsed & simultaneously tripped and removed one of his shoes. I was only holding his hand, not really supporting his weight so I go half down with him trying to help him but failing bc I'm absolutely tiny.

People of COURSE came right over to help him, but see here's the problem. My wonderful wonderful bf has had a, shall we say colorful life? He was neglected a lot as a kid (among other things) so he did a lot of sketchy shit, leading to a natural wariness of authority figures. So when all these people came rushing and some of those people were a security guard and a firefighter/emt, my poor boys brain immediately panicked and assumed he was in big trouble and didn't want to cause a scene so he got up, clearly not fine, saying "No no it's okay I just tripped. No worries I just tripped. I just tripped. Where's my shoe????" And I helped him dazedly put his shoe on and we shuffled to the observation area. They sat him down while they tried to find him water and I have never in my life seen someone break out in a more instant and heavier sweat then him suddenly. He asks me if I can see a trashcan nearby, as the emt comes over. He had to hold his mask shut while he got escorted to the bathroom to yurp a little.

Afterwards he was SO pale so we all just sat and had some goldfish until his color came back. The firefighter/emt on duty was really really kind and kept saying to him "you can never control that type of stuff, even if it isn't normal for you, those reactions are so genuinely real"

She walked us out to the lot and luckily I was the one driving us home so he got to sit and drink more juice. We got in the car and his first question was "Okay real talk how did I lose my shoe?"

I still find it absolutely hilarious that I'm the dumbass who accidentally drank booze pre vax and faced 0 immediate or delayed side effects, and my poor boyfriend got taken down with a dm vengeance and didn't even want to be honest bc he was so disoriented and thought he'd get in trouble

TL/DR: Took my bf to get the vaccine, he passed out & felt like he was going to die and didn't want to tell anyone bc he didn't want to get in trouble

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