If you read my post on medical preparations for our family world trip earlier this week you might have been wondering how our kids actually did with the shots. I think this photo sums it up nicely 
CAM, being a little older was more stoic – at least for the photo!
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I wrote the Health And Safety chapter in the Traveling With Kids book. To do that, I used my own experiences of traveling pre-kids and my experiences traveling with my children in Europe and South America. I spent a lot of time reading the excellent information on travel medicine on the Centers For Disease Control website and I pored over many books on travel medicine. When we started thinking about medical preparations for our family world trip, I was pretty sure I knew what we needed. Even with that, I still felt it would be useful for us to meet with a doctor who specializes in travel medicine.
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Disclosure: I’m writing this post before meeting with the travel doctors or telling our children that they’ll be getting multiple shots over the next few months in preparation for our family world trip. I expect the doctor to be competent and professional. I expect my children to absolutely lose it when they realize what’s going on – you’ll probably hear their screeches wherever you are.
I’m writing this because firstly our appointment at the UW Travel Clinic is today and secondly because the conversation I had when making this appointment was like a game of poker, a little weird and strange enough that it begs sharing. The receptionist responded to my request for an appointment – my opening gambit if you will – with a laconic sigh. I countered by saying that we’re a family of four and raised a little by saying that we plan to travel for at least ten months. She met the parlay and raised again with a sly “can you list the countries you plan to visit”. I rattled off a list including most of South America, South-East Asia, Southern Africa and the Middle East (just for good measure). The conversation stalled in silence momentarily. My bluff called, she informed me that we’d have to meet with the Director of the clinic – and then added that we were just in time to start our series of Hepatitis A shots. I think she won that hand. We’ll see how things go today when we meet in person.
And naturally, I’ll be sharing full details of all the shots we’ll be getting and why in a subsequent post.
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