Linda has made our appointment at the medical clinic that deals with travel issues.
Our appointment is for next Wednesday at 3:00 pm at the Albany Clinic, which by the way, has no parking, and I will have my car, having come from school. I will have to ask the VP if I can leave school a little early that day - I have an prep period at that time, so it should be ok, and I have had only one absence all year so far.
We will need malaria meds, the cholera vaccine and likely a typhoid fever vaccine. We had the typhoid vaccine the last time we went to Rwanda, but I've read that it only lasts four years. The doctor will know for sure of course, but definitely we will want to be covered. Our yellow fever vaccinations are good for a few more years. I will keep these shots up to date because you never know when you are going to get the chance to travel some place where they are needed.
Linda says she wants to ask the doctor for exactly the same type of malaria meds that we had before - we know that we won't have a reaction to them like some people did. I did not experience bad dreams (a potential side effect) nor nausea, and that's a huge plus for me: I have a sensitive stomach, and it doesn't seem to take much to make me feel queasy. Don't want that at all.
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