Sponsored Fly: Protecting My Immunocompromised Mother: Why I Chose To Get Vaccinated #InformUniteHeal

It was really a no-brainer for me to get vaccinated. I do not want to continue wearing masks, I’m too cute! How can I meet my future bae in Trader Joe’s if half of my face is covered? I do love the increased sanitizing practices that Covid has implemented. People were really out here not washing their hands or covering their mouths when sneezing or coughing. Ewww. I side-eye all those people, don’t be like them. 

Jokes aside, I got vaccinated because I not only wanted to protect myself from Covid-19, I wanted to protect my parents. More specifically, my mother who successfully had a double lung transplant in May. 

My mom, before the transplant was severely autoimmune compromised and she still is. If I wanted to provide support to my parents and see my parents, I knew I had to get vaccinated. I could not travel from New York, which was the epicenter of Covid at one point to Baltimore to see my parents and not be vaccinated. Traveling and being around my loved ones are the things I like to do and to do them safely, I had to roll up my sleeves and get vaccinated. 

And I don’t like needles. I have multiple tattoos and I still don’t like needles.  But if I want to live my life as freely as I can during a pandemic and if I want to see my parents and travel, I had to get vaccinated. I was just at the Fat Joe and Ja Rule Verzuz at MSG (I am team Ja Rule!)  and to enter Madison Square Garden, I had to show my vaccine card. I proudly showed them my vaccine card via NY’s Excelsior Pass. 

Life is different right now but to do the things that resemble life pre-covid and to be around my loved ones, I choose to get vaccinated. It’s the right thing to do and it’s our way out of the pandemic. And if I still have to wear a mask, let me make sure my eyebrows and lashes are popping. 

For more information about the vaccine, visit https://nbcit.org/inform-unite-heal/. Let’s do our part to stay safe, healthy, and fly.