Region. “I was lucky!” Birgit Sienz wrote happily a few days ago in the WhatsApp group, where former high school graduates with the 1984 high school diploma exchange ideas. The friends envied her. Many have elderly parents for whom Corona could be the death sentence. The daughters are currently voting and clicking their fingers sore in the hope of an early vaccination appointment. You can already speak of luck if you hit the jackpot like Birgit Sienz. The woman from Ötlingen called the hotline 116 117 on December 30th. The reason: your 80-year-old mother has been in the most severe care case with care level 4 for years. “The two have lived in total isolation since March, it was clear to me that I had to get an appointment for a vaccination as soon as possible,” explains the daughter, why she became active so early – at a time when it was only in reachable area Stuttgart and Ulm vaccination centers existed. The first time I called, there was no free appointment. But Birgit Sienz got the tip on the phone to try again on the Internet the next day. Said and done. Access to the vaccination center in Ulm was successful. – But more by chance: “It’s pretty complicated,” she remembers: You first had to click on another federal state in order to go back to Baden-Württemberg and then be presented with the selection for a vaccination center. “I just tried it around stubbornly,” is how she explains her success. Twice she fought her way through all the masks, twice she received a code, which then had to be verified by a second. But then the date was finally set for both of them. “I was really proud!”
Yesterday the time had come: Birgit Sienz packed both parents into the car and drove with them to Ulm. There the trio experienced its blue miracle. The vaccination was okay for the mother, the people of Kirchheim were certified. But father, he won’t be 80 until next week! – All persuasiveness dried up, appeals to logic and humanity went unheard. That the father takes care of the seriously ill almost alone – no argument. It doesn’t matter that he’s only missing a few days until his 80th birthday. That the elderly couple has lived in almost inhuman quarantine for eleven months – a gift. “That has nothing to do with fairness or a systematic approach, because the vaccination dose was already planned,” says Birgit Sienz with a shrug.
The mother was vaccinated, the trio headed home. Now the daughter joins the desperate waiting ranks again. Irene strifler
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