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What time is it?

I wonder if there really was someone in room 1114 of the Summerfield Suites this morning to appreciate the wake up call message I left at 6:15am. Dyslexia rules.

Today's agenda includes going to the "Travel Clinic" at the hospital. Since we are going to South Africa in a month, we called our regular doctors to get anti-malaria drugs since that's what the CDC travel immunization site had for precautions. Apparently it's just not that easy; we were referred to the Travel Clinic. I was sent a 2 sided information gathering sheet to fill out ahead of time..like I really have a record of when I had my polio shots as a kid? Does it date me when I also remember getting one dose saturated on a sugar cube? (Remind me to give their immunization records to my sons.) I also remember one childhood visit to Dr. Pomeroy for a check-up. His office was at his home and on this occasion there must have been quite a discussion about my size. I remember his opening an adjoining door and meeting his daughter who was my age and she was a "giant". I wasn't thrilled with the back to back measuring...somehow even then I knew that this was just not professional.

But I digress........

The procedure at the Travel Clinic is to undergo an interview based on my information sheet; take a prescription to the pharmacy in the building; pick up the medication and bring it back to the Travel Clinic for them to administer to me as indicated. I'm beginning to feel like a hamster in a wheel. They state the vaccines can cost from $60 - $500 and for their service, which includes personal evaluation, counseling by the practitioner, administration of the vaccines and written educational material, a cost of $71-$200($71?)

So if I walk out of there with nothing more than what the CDC travel immunization site had to offer, I won't be all that thrilled with the service, thank you. Stay tuned...I'm now awaiting a call back from my Dr office with my immunization records...plague? yellow fever? Japanese encephalitis?

~~~~~Update~~~~~

I was joking about the yellow fever but apparently it's one of the vaccinations I got along with the reams of informational literature on them. Yellow Fever..Hepatitis A and Polio shots and malarone tablets (anti-malaria drugs)...the non psychosis inducing stuff. Pppssstt...the polio shot stings as much as it ever did. Now I've got a niffty yellow International vaccination card to carry in my passport...wow, way cool.

Posted by frani at October 21, 2002 08:31 AM