Since I have not travelled to South America before, I wanted to make sure I had done as much preparation as possible. I was never vaccinated as a child (that's another journal) and seemed to do quite well all my life, compared to those that were.
However, I decided to listen to the recommendations from my current Doctor and do what she did, booked with a Safeway pharmacy online and did the recommended rabies series (289 each no insurance coverage) and typhoid, yellow fever, malaria pills and Hepetitis A/B and polio.
So, glad I started the process a while ago because it took several weeks to get the rabies series and the others done without overwhelming my system.
I feel great and my thoughts are, if the trip gets cancelled for any reason, I am ready for the zombie apocolypse.
-------------------------Reasons I am going on a worldvets.org trip in the first place? A friend asked me to go and now I will volunteer to clean up after the vets and work 12-18 hours day as a volunteer and I paid 1250 to go plus airfare, two trip insurance polices, the shots and anything else I spend now, then and afterwards.
I love animals and feel like this will provide insights beyond taking care of my own Pomeranian I adopted from our daughter. I also like this friend enough to let her see me with all my human frailities because if we're still chums at the end of it, I just may go on another trip one day.
Seems like a nice retirement idea, work hard, play hard. That is how I run my life now so I expect more of same later.
I am grateful to have been accepted into the program and I expect to work hard and be of use to the people of San Andres Island and to help children with some stickers and toys I will be bringing in anticipation of hanging out with them while their animals get checked over. DH
