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Friday, December 9, 2011

Shot time

I went this past week to the Health department to receive my shots.....holy cow I am really going!!!  Excited and nervous all at once.  I checked in at the front desk and Michelle called me back.  She said "ok so where are you going and what will you be doing"  I explained to her the whole thing.  She went on to explain the various precautions that I should be taking and what shots I will need.  She gave me a great tip - put the US embassy 800 number taped in my passport.  UGH - really I thought in my head.  I can just picture it now....me sitting in a room with just a table and a folding chair with one light hanging over my head.  I quickly erased those thoughts in my head.  "I will be safe I will be safe"  is my mantra.  She then started in on the shots.  I got Hep. A/B (in the same vile - it was cheaper that way), a flu shot (which I have never had before), and she handed me a paper bag that said "refrigerate" on it.  She said that this would be my typhoid pills - I need to take them (4 total) every other day and it has to stay in the refrigerator.  She also said that I would be needing a script for Malaria (chlroaquin) which from what I understand gives some people crazy dreams (sounds fun LOL).   So now I am ready!!!  I am really going!!

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