Correction re: Prescriptions

I picked up my prescriptions this morning and learned that it is the typhoid vaccine (I believe) that provides 5 years worth of immunity. Malarone, the malaria pills, must be taken daily two days prior to entering an area of risk and for seven days afterwards.

It occurs to me now that at $4+ a pill, I probably didn't need as many as I got. I wish the nurse would have emphasized the cost before filling out the prescription and that I had understood all this before I paid for them. Anyway, I should be invincible by the time I get there.

I'd just better find myself at some point knee-deep in a rice patty at sundown, or wearing a t-shirt in the jungle, before I come back.