Apparently you don’t get to go to Ghana without a lot of holes in your arms. So far, Fuzz has been injected with vaccinations for Hepatitis A, flu, polio, tetanus and diphtheria and yellow fever. As to yellow fever he says, “They’re short on this vaccine so I had to wait until she had five people to do in one hour, because once you open it, you have to inject it in the next hour or it goes bad.” Still to go: meningitis shot, malaria prescription, Cipro and “some other prescription I’ll pick up today.”
Stephen reports:
I am good for life on Hepatitus A&B, Yellow fever – still okay. Need Diphtheria vaccination, malaria Pills (Malarone) and Cipro (in case of potential intestinal perpetrations).
I will make my usual trip over to see Bonnie – my immunization specialist at Traveler’s Health in Niles, IL. She is great. She is like your mom when you pack a lunch for school, but instead of her making you a bag of chips and a bologna sandwich for school, you get two shots and a handful of pills for Africa.
She is very cheerful and sympathetic normally, but if you make any suggestion to delay a shot or not take some precaution, like saving money on a bottle of DDT that will make mosquitoes drop dead from just looking at your clothes, then she will pause and look at you as if you say “Well, if you really want to die a painful death in the jungle just to save $12, go right ahead” – so I bought the juice – though I must admit, I am as afraid of opening it as I was of buying it.
