Posts Tagged ‘yellow fever’

health update

In life, rants, travel on 19 March 2009 tagged agra, feet, health, hole in the wall, india, indian food, injection, lucknow, road, shoulders, sick, sunburn, yellow fever with 2 comments

after 13 days on the road, my health is good. i haven’t been sick (yet). i didn’t get sick from the yellow fever injection (which was over two weeks ago). i haven’t been sick since arriving in india.  i’ve been eating mostly indian food, but i haven’t gone to any dodgy or ‘hole in the [...]

according to plan

In korea, life, money, movies, rants, travel on 5 March 2009 tagged 50mm, airport, asia, bank accounts, books, bus, coex, conversion, currency, dentist, exchange, intercontinental hotel, internet, korea, lens, movie, packing, phone, salary, transfer, travel, travelers cheques, watchmen, yellow fever with no comments

well, i’m pretty much done. everything has gone according to plan. the only ommission was getting to the dentist (technically, i could go tomorrow, but i’ll pass).  yesterday i got my final jab – yellow fever – and i’m expecting to get sick right about the time i see my first daybreak in india. i [...]

closer and closer

In blog stuff, korea, leica, life, money, rants, travel on 22 February 2009 tagged bcm, cleaning, computer, dentist, develop, exhibition, film, first aid kit, hep a, hep b, hiking, injections, insurance, kepco, korea, leica, pack, packing, pensin, things to do, travel, yellow fever with no comments

with 13 days before i leave korea, the list of ‘things to do’ is getting smaller and smaller. i’m slowly getting stuff done and i feel today that i’ve got a reasonable grasp on everything. my pension refund is finalised, i just have to wait for the payment. i bought my hiking pack yesterday (osprey [...]

shots and soju

In korea, life, money, rants, world events on 3 September 2008 tagged australia, beef, crisis, currency, dollar, economy, hepatitis, imf, injection, korea, money, school, shot, soju, students, won, yellow fever with no comments

i went out for dinner with some friends last night. we headed to a restaurant and ate heaps of australian beef. of course, the beef went down very well … and there was lots of soju to go with it. i got a little pissy, but i had a good time. when i woke up [...]

jabby!

In korea, travel on 31 July 2008 tagged curse, disease, frogurt, hepatitis, injection, jab, travel, yellow fever with no comments

owie! i went to the public health centre this morning and got my first of 3 hepatitis B injections. i need to go back in one month for jab #2 and again at the end of january for jab #3. the best part, aside from the pain, is the fact that each injection is only [...]

pricks and diseases

In travel on 8 June 2007 tagged disease, hepatitis, injections, jabs, malaria, pricks, rabies, travel, vaccine, yellow fever with no comments

it never even occurred to me, until a colleague of mine at work said that he might have malaria, that one of my preparations for travel will have to be a big series of injections and medication … to avoid dying of dengue fever in some asian backwater. so, once i have finalised my list [...]