After hearing for the 94th time how Japanese Encephalitis could turn my brain to mush if I was unfortunately bitten by an infected mosquito, I decided to get the vaccine.
The cost of vaccines here are exponentially cheaper than getting them in the states. The Jap E shot in America is $150 a pop...and since you need three of them over a month that's a lot of dough. Here the shots cost $7.00, plus a nurse's fee. Since I was paying the nurse's fee anyway, I thought "Hell I might as well get the Rabies vaccine too" (this decision was helped after seeing quite a few dogs I assumed to be rabid up in Sapa). And since I was getting those vaccines anyway I thought, "Hell, I might as well get the flu vaccine too."
For those of you who are interested I've now had Hep A, Hep B, Typhoid Fever, Tetanus Booster, Jap E, Rabies and the flu shot. What I'm trying to say is, I'm sort of a super hero.
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5 comments:
You are brave - 3 shots at once - glad she was wearing gloves!
A girl can't afford $450 in this economy, but if my brain goes to mush I'm going to be SO mad.
you sound like you're all spun up for the military now! they keep forcing me to get all those vaccinations too... and they HURT! i guess you don't necessarily need the smallpox or anthrax ones though, huh? yay military life =o(.
so... how's your arm doing? ouch!
If you don't look at the video and just listen to it, there's about 5 times where you could easy use the expression "That's what she said"
Chi-Na! Can you hook me up with some special vaccines?! Is there an army program that I could join for say a week that allows me to just hang out somewhere nice and blog?
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