Owie!

I discovered today that you CAN have too many shots all at once. I was preparing for a trip to south america(Peru to be a bit more precise) and I was told I would need some "travel" shots to protect me from all kinds of horrid things.

I went to the hospital dutifully to get this taken care of. Once there, the nurse who was supposed to give me my various injections commented on how I hadn't had any shots of any sort in quite a long time....since I was a child, in fact.

So, here's what I had to get:
Hep A
Hep B
Yellow Fever
MMR(Measles, Mumps, Rubella)
Typhoid
Malaria

I couldn't get them all at once because my last blood work earlier this year showed a borderline result for the MMR, so I have to have the test again to make sure I do or don't need that vaccine.

I got the Hep A & B and the Yellow Fever shots today. I have to go back for the MMR blood work next week, and (after the Channel Islands scuba trip) get the Typhoid and possibly the MMR.

I couldn't get all of them today because three of them are "live" vaccines and it's too risky to get them all at once.

That and the Hep B is a three shot series....

The Malaria isn't a shot, thankfully, but a series of pills(Lariam) one has to take once a week for the week before travel, during and two weeks after.

And on top of all this, I've been warned to NOT drink or otherwise manage to ingest ANY water that is not bottled and sealed, nor anything that might have been washed in untreated water. I'll have to use bottled water to brush my teeth, and make sure I don't drink any of the water in the shower...Jesus! Can't eat any vegetables or fruit that may have been washed in untreated water either...sounds like lots and lots of canned & bottled everything!