Shooting Up For a Good Cause

I had an appointment with the travel consultant in Denver a few days ago. We went over the safety and health precautions for travel to Haiti. She suggested tetanus, typhoid, and hepatitis vaccinations. I had already begun my hepatitis vaccination series through the Denver STD clinic since they offer it for free as opposed to the immunization clinic’s fee of $65 per shot. She also mentioned the rabies vaccination, but since it cost somewhere around $600 for the series and it only gives you an extra 24 hours to get to a hospital if you are exposed, I opted not to get it. So, I ended up getting the tetanus shot and typhoid pills. I had heard a lot of horror stories about how painful and sore the tetanus shot would be, even from the woman who gave me the hepatitis vaccination just before I went to the immunization clinic. While all the stories about the pain of the tetanus shot may be true for some, or most, people, I didn’t have any pain or soreness from it. It may have something to do with the fact that I went running for 2 hours after I got the shot, but maybe it’s just that I have some superhuman immunity to pain from immunization shots.