Showing posts with label vaccinations. Show all posts
Showing posts with label vaccinations. Show all posts

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Update - jags, jungles and couches


Today Chris, Paul will be getting his yellow fever vaccine and Charlotte will be getting the first rabies, hepatitis B and Japanese B Encephalitis shots. We are now nearly the most vaccinated people in Edinburgh. I thought that because of all our vaccines, the blood donation people wouldn't touch us with a cattle prod let alone a needle but according to Nurse the Sooz we actually become even more desirable due to the fact that we have all these useful antibodies. Who'd have thought!

In other news, we've booked a 3-day/two night stay in the Wasai Tambopata Lodge which is near the Tambopata river - itself a tributary of the Amazon. Basically, it's a stay in the Amazon jungle where we'll get to see Macaws and swim in a "natural jaccuzi" (I think that's the bit we're most excided about).

The Couchsurfing is going very well and we've been having great cultural exchanges with a number of our guests. Here's hoping we get similar treatment when we're the guests!

3 months to go (just over)!

Saturday, 27 March 2010

Flat and jags, or flat jags


So now tickets are booked and the flat is rented which means....it's jag time! I visited the nurse first and found that we Probably need the following...

Hepatitis A (NHS)
Polio/Diptheria/Tetanus (NHS)
Typhoid (NHS)
Hepatitis B (£31.50 x 3)
Rabies (£42.00 x 3)
Japanese B Encephalitis (£75.00 x 2)
Yellow Fever (£49.35)

Overall £423. A pretty expensive run but I guess you can't put a price on health.

The next stage is to try and figure out where to store our stuff. Any volunteers?