Özel Sağlık Hastanesi

Turkey has an online medical portal that allows its citizens to keep track of anything and everything health-related. It’s called eNabız ( which translates as ePulse).

Soon after we arrived in Turkey in September, we submitted to the local health ministry office our CDC approved COVID-19 vaccine information, which has since been added to our eNabız accounts. This has allowed us to get a QR code … in case we are asked to prove our COVID-19 protection status while we are here.

Deniz, Mui and I all got booster shot notifications from eNabız earlier this week. Friday, we decided to go ahead and get the shots here instead of waiting to do so after we return to the US in January. A big factor in this decision was that our PCP [primary care physician] in the US encouraged us to get boosted here as long as the vaccine administered is the same as the one given in the US. Which it is.

So, after dinner on Friday, Deniz, Mui, and I got into our respective eNabız portals and made booster appointments at Özel Sağlık Hastanesi [Private Health Hospital] here in Alsancak … 10:40a/11:00a/11:30a … all for the next day, the 13th.

After breakfast at mom’s on Saturday, the three of us set off for our appointments. Easy peasy. No waiting around … no one else queuing up for shots. Even though we were early, they took us immediately and all three of us were done by 10:30a … before it was even time for the first of our three appointments.

Unfortunately, they would not annotate our CDC cards, but we took a photo of the record that shows the shot batch, etc. We have already sent off the photo to our PCP to have our records in Colorado updated. We will also download the QR code from eNabız. That ought to be proof enough that we’ve boosted our systems against COVID-19.

As was the case after the second dose, my only reaction to the third dose is a slight ache at the site of the injection. It started yesterday afternoon and continued overnight into today. Nothing to stop me from a regular day of activities … and the ache is dissipating already.

Mui, on the other hand has been hit hard … again. He went to bed last night around 9:00p and got some serious shivers soon after. That reaction dissipated after about ½ hour, but he did not sleep well … very achy and a low-grade fever. He woke up feeling slightly better this morning, but after a quick bite of breakfast and a couple of pain killers, he’s back in bed. Methinks he will sleep through much of the day. If his reaction to this shot follows the course of his second dose, I expect that he’ll start feeling better by this evening and be back to normal tomorrow.Læs mere