Immunization Shots

Traveling requires immunization records to be up to date, plus Yellow Fever immunizations were needed to even get into Cameroon. So that should be easy…. phone up your local Health Unit and book the appointment. Well, no surprise, next available date is in February. Hello, what about last minute people; you know orange types? We only were invited in November. Funny...they don't seem to care. Plus, all you get is an answering machine and they are not very helpful.

You can get immunized at your doctor's office, (if you have a doctor) but they can't do Yellow Fever and give you the proper certificate. London Health unit is booked too. Fortunately there is a clinic that does immunization walk-ins, a few times per month so we find out the only one left before Christmas and before we leave is in London Dec 17th. You have to register between 1 and 2pm or sorry about your luck.

So we head down there and fill out our paperwork and find out we are a little behind on most of our immunizations. 3 needles and $230 each, we now get to moan about our sore arms. Mine wasn't too bad but Janet, well, you would have thought she was going to charge that doctor with abuse except she was too sore to pick up the phone to dial 1-800-doc-abuse. She went to bed and was lying their moaning… refusing to take a painkiller… she figured there was already enough foreign crap in her system and if you know her… (Janet says that I am totally exaggerating, though nine days later, she still feels it… ) It didn’t help that I totally elbowed her in that spot in the middle of the night a few days ago. She woke up hearing herself yelp and I woke up wondering what was going on. She thinks that my arm hurt just as much, but being a man, I just won’t admit it. She now has a new appreciation for babies who get immunized and can’t say what’s wrong.