vaccinations!

i'm in between two vaccination appointments on Feb. 4 and 11, with a third to come in a month, as i get ready to depart for India in May.  above is the Saskatoon Travel Centre where they discuss your travel plans with you, and what vaccinations are mandatory and recommended.  left is the wonderful nurse tasked with the job of sticking me.  :)  

  

I got my first shots for hepatitis, typhoid, measles and mumps, japanese encephalitis, and rabies (you get vaccinated for rabies because its hard to find treatment for rabies where i'm going, and needles are recycled in rural clinics...and so can cause more problems than they solve) along with a prescription for Malaria pills.

                                                      My nurse was mortified when i asked her to pause with the needle in me as we took the pictures.  :)  what a pro she is...SO knowledgable of the subject matter, wonderful demeanor, and i almost didn't feel the needles go in and out at all.  the woman had game.  it's been 6 days since my first shots, and no adverse effects.