Shots . . .

This week I had the privilege to sit down with a "travel doctor".  Well actually she was a nurse, but I don't think it mattered too much.  She went over all the potential diseases in South Africa, and some wonderful things like "travel diarrhea".   The crazy thing is that the cdc doesn't REQUIRE you to get any vaccinations before traveling to South Africa.  Everything is just RECOMMENDED.  This means that after this wonderful nurse goes over all the perils of what await you on your trip, you get to make the decision as to what shots you WANT to get!  Thankfully I was already up to date on my tetanus shot after our motorcycle accident almost 5 years ago.  

However I still ended up getting 3 shots, and one of them was two in one!  Ouch!  I found out later that I should have gotten the Typhoid shot and didn't pick it.  So when I go back in a month to get round 2 of the 2 in 1, I will get that too.  

Not only did the shots hurt, but it hurt my nest egg of donation money that I had been saving up.  The bill $431 for the visit and shots.  Yikes!!  A ton of work went into baking my way to that figure and there it was all gone in less than 30 minutes.  I was so thankful though to have that money to use!  Thank you for buying baked goods from me!!  :)