Cynematik • Cyndi Greening

We’re getting ready for the trip to Zambia. We’re doing all of those pragmatic things that one must do to travel internationally. We contacted PASSPORT SERVICES to handle our immunizations. I found out that we don’t really have to take any shots at all. Zambia does not require immunizations for entry into the country. We’re actually choosing to take whatever we hope to avoid during our travels.

I chose to get immunized for Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B (I’m doing the accelerated Hep B so it will require a sequence of four shots total). Of course, I updated my Tetanus and Diptheria. We both did the Polio vaccine. Typhoid turns out to be a live oral tablet that we take every other night for a week. The anti-malarial tablets we start taking two days before we leave and continue to take for a week afterwards.

We went to the PASSPORT HEALTH in Mesa, Arizona. The nurse was quick, quick, quick … and painless. We were done in nothing flat. In the end, it did make me a bit tired. I ended up sleeping for TEN HOURS afterwards. My arms are a bit sore today but nothing unbearable.

So, today, I learned that you don’t have to take anything at all … as long as you don’t mind getting everything. So, I went with the shots.