doing better today

The 2nd vaccine dose was definitely worse than the first, in my case. As the problems kept growing, I kept reminding myself that an actual infection would have been all of this and worse.

I think maybe a table showing the progression of time would be the best presentation.

Time	Hours	Symptoms
8:20am	0	No immediate reaction after getting the 2nd dose of the Pfizer mrna vaccine.
3pm	7	Bicep is sore again, like last time.
6pm	10	Neck starts to feel sore.
8pm	12	There's a narrow band of "tingling" when I breathe, about the width of a finger, all the way across my chest, about 2 finger widths below my collar bone.  I search the web for symptoms.  I find only a mention of allergic reaction, but I don't see any rash on the surface.  It feels deeper than that.  I start to pee frequently, so I start drinking water to compensate.
10pm	14	38.3C/100.9F temp.  Full body shivers as my temp continues to climb.  I walk doing the "old man shuffle", with joint aches from knees to neck.
12:30am	16	39.2C/102.6F temp.  Shivers finally end, as long as I stay under a blanket to keep warm.  It still feels like the flu.  Headache.
5:45am	21	38.8C/101.7F temp.  It still feels like the flu.
8pm	36	37.9C/100.2F temp.  The whole day was like this.  My body still aches like flu, but less than last night.  I can walk normally, at least.  Outdoor sunlight made my eyes hurt.
8am	48	I feel close to normal.  Spine and neck still a bit sore.  Headache is barely noticeable.

My cat, Hope, stayed close the whole time with body-to-body contact whether I was in the chair (watching tv) or in the bed.  I worried about her reaction.  Since my body was using up those mrna instructions to create virus "spikes", I assumed that I was exhaling spikes too.  I know cats can contract the whole sars-cov-2 virus, but I didn't notice any health reaction in my cat to being around me this whole time.  She doesn't act like she's been exposed to anything that would trigger her immune system.

Still, though, I wonder if it's possible for anyone (cat or human) to acquire a tiny bit of resistance to covid19 just by being in close proximity to a person undergoing mrna vaccination.  Since (for a short duration only) our bodies are producing actual spike proteins of the original virus, maybe we're exhaling a small amount of spikes that someone else could inhale for exposure (very briefly, because those spikes can't replicate) to train their antibodies against it.

This is how my body reacts just to a limited amount of sars-cov-2 spikes.  It would've been all this and worse, if I had acquired the actual coronavirus infection.  Some people get covid19 without showing any symptoms.  Clearly, I would not be like them.