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Rx me!

Monday, May 29th, 2006

“Peel everything you eat, don’t sleep near pigs, Happy travels!  Come back for a parasite stool test in August.”  Over a month ago the nurse practitioner at the travel clinic in Burlington sent me away with prescriptions for Mefloquine, an anti-malaria drug, and Ciprofloxacin, a broad spectrum antibiotic that works against severe traveller’s diarrhea. 

By the time I reached Vietnam I was well through half the Cipro regiment  [read on]

Do I know I don’t know?

Monday, May 22nd, 2006

“I like to know that I have no idea what is going on… in America we are lulled into thinking we know but we’re absolutely clueless most of the time.”  Lawnin said to me on my first night in Ho Chi Minh City over white wine, pizza, and a fudge sundae!!  [read on]