It's Thanksgiving week and we've traveled from sunny, warm Florida to cold and snowy New England to spend the holiday with family.
On Monday we flew to Connecticut & then drove to our condo in Vermont where we arrived after dark. It snowed all day Tuesday - very pretty but very cold.
On Tuesday we had an appointment at the Travel Clinic at Dartmouth Medical Center. The purpose of the visit was to find out what shots and medications we'd need for our upcoming trip. We anticipated a relatively short visit but two hours later we left with our heads spinning from everything they told us about how to stay safe and not get sick. We were give a large folder full of information with promises of even more that would be mailed to us in the near future.
We also expected to get some shots during the visit. Larry had 2 and I ended up with 4! You can see them all lined up in the photo below. They included Hepatitis A, Typhoid and Tdap (a combination vaccine that protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). After a discussion of our health history and various pros and cons, it was decided that we'd both get a waiver for the Yellow Fever shot.
We're now waiting to pick up prescriptions for the 'patch' (motion sickness), malaria pills, a Z-pac (a 5 day course of Azithromycin) and several other medications that I hope we won't need to use!
On Monday we flew to Connecticut & then drove to our condo in Vermont where we arrived after dark. It snowed all day Tuesday - very pretty but very cold.
On Tuesday we had an appointment at the Travel Clinic at Dartmouth Medical Center. The purpose of the visit was to find out what shots and medications we'd need for our upcoming trip. We anticipated a relatively short visit but two hours later we left with our heads spinning from everything they told us about how to stay safe and not get sick. We were give a large folder full of information with promises of even more that would be mailed to us in the near future.
We also expected to get some shots during the visit. Larry had 2 and I ended up with 4! You can see them all lined up in the photo below. They included Hepatitis A, Typhoid and Tdap (a combination vaccine that protects against tetanus, diphtheria and pertussis (whooping cough). After a discussion of our health history and various pros and cons, it was decided that we'd both get a waiver for the Yellow Fever shot.
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