Tuesday, 5 July 2016
Gulf Waters RV Resort — Port Aransas
What do I do to celebrate the birthday of the good old US of A yesterday? I ingest a specific strain of salmonella. Now, don’t worry … I’m not talking about getting food poisoning. Rather, I’m referring to starting the course of typhoid fever oral vaccine prescribed by the travel doctor — one pill every other day … four pills in all. We filled the ℞ for Vivotif Oral after our visit to the travel clinic in March, but delayed taking the pills until now. Why? Because we didn’t want to start the clock-ticking on the five-year coverage the vaccine is good for until we absolutely had to. We still have six months before our RTW sets sail, but we couldn’t delay further. You see, the vaccine requires refrigeration and we will lose that capability when the Phaeton goes into storage in 17 days.
This isn’t the first time we’ve been vaccinated against typhoid fever. The first time was in 2004 … before our photo safari to Botswana. No adverse effects then; nor this time. For either of us.
The TF vaccine completes our medical preparedness for the adventure we will be embarking upon come January.
Yellow Fever … ✔
Typhoid Fever … ✔
Antimalarials … ✔
Antibiotics for “Delhi Belly” … ✔
Hep A (in 2004; good for our lifetimes) … ✔
We are good to go!
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