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Just can’t stand it!!

Monday, September 24th, 2007

The anticipation is almost too much! I leave 3 weeks from tomorrow and am finally knee deep in planning some sort of route and looking into what that route would entail. For the longest time I couldn’t decide if I wanted to head north or south afer I left Mumbai but after reading about Sikkim I decided to go north and make my way over there. There is just so much to see and do in India. I don’t want this to be a marathon journey where I rush about trying to get in as much as possible in the time frame alloted…I want to take my time to get to know a place, but there are so many areas that I want to see and experience…6 months does not seem that long.

Tomorrow I go in for the last of my vaccinations and this weekend my family and I are flying up to WI to visit my sister’s famliy.

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Argh!!!

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

So…I went to get the anti-malarials filled this evening, well tried to anyway. According to BC/BS they will cover the cost of treating malaria, but not the prevention. In order to get them to cover the cost I have to get malaria first. So basically it seems that they’re hoping everyone will be too scared of getting malaria that they’ll pay out of pocket for the meds (in my case over $1000) in order to prevent the contraction of the disease and if they do that they won’t get malaria so BC/BS doesn’t have to pay a dime in treatment. Nice scam. Oh, and did I mention that the side effects include disturbed sleep, nightmares, depression and in rare cases hallucinations and suicidal thoughts? And I have to pay for that?

Update: The Doctor decided to put me on doxycyclene instead of the Lariam and Malarone…so now I just have to worry about bad sunburns…I’m a fair-skinned redhead, I think I have the sun issues under control at this point in my life.

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booked

Thursday, September 13th, 2007
My ticket is booked!!!!! I'm leaving Oct. 16th for Mumbai. I was able to get a cheapish oneway on Delta, so bonus->skymiles! Now I just need to finally solidify the whole banking question.

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Jabs

Tuesday, September 4th, 2007
Finally went in for the first of 3 visits to the travel clinic. Hep A & B, Japanese Encephalitis, Meningitus, Polio, Typhoid, & Rabies. Now, I know there are a lot of people who decide against rabies and ... [Continue reading this entry]

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