Typhoid pills

Feb 17 2014

Took the last typhoid pill this morning. Four in all, every other day with a full glass of lukewarm water, not too hot or too cold, so the living culture of whatever I’m ingesting doesn’t get killed off before it snuggles into the lining of my guts creating protection from the typhoid disease. I don’t want to think about it too much.

We decided not to take malaria pills because of possible side effects like psychosis and screaming nightmares in the middle of the night. We did some research and weighed the risks. Using bug spray laced with Deet when we travel in certain lowland areas like the terai should suffice.

Hep A and tetanus shots done, and I’m already up to date with Hep B because I needed the series before I entered Smith.  Who knew college life was so fraught?

Sent photocopies of our passports off to our travel agent Lalit in Delhi - he is a cousin of Vidya, a friend of my secondary school teacher Don Messerschmidt from Lincoln School in Kathmandu. Don, pushing 70, still leading treks into Bhutan for part of the year, the rest he lives in Portland OR. He has a blog I am following called Himalayan Snows http://dmesserschmidt.blogspot.com/

It’s all a circle.