thank goodness for that
Tuesday, September 2nd, 2008Did you know that the WHO accepted level of immunity for rabies is 0.5 international units per ml (IU/ml)? Nor did I until today.
We have just been notified that the boys’ levels are 1.4, 1.4, 1.5, 1.8 and 1.8.
The girls raced away with the top scores: 2.8, 3.6 and 3.8 (the two little girls didn’t require testing, but I’m sure their numbers would be up there too)
Of course that is not a license to go out looking for wild dogs – we’d still need another two shots if we did get bitten, and if rabies does develop it’s fatal. But at least we’ve bought ourselves a bit of time to get to a medical facility, a handy thing when we’ll be out trekking who-knows-exactly-where in Asia and a couple of days from civilisation on a ranch in Mongolia.
with a three year old on the back in one of these
Most of us were lucky enough to have the intradermal rabies jabs - lucky I say, because they were "only" $60 as opposed to $180 a pop for intramuscular ones (and we needed three each - yeah, ... 
the pictures are off the wall
we've started to pack our stuff away
a little each day
and every time we walk up the hall
we're surprised to not see our younger selves
smiling down at our now older current ... 
Just in case we lose the bag containing our on-road-medical-supplies and need to replace everything, here's the list. Our lovely doctor definitely errs on the side of caution and would happily have sent us off ... 
Had our very first plans for this trip come off, we would have been in China by now. Along with most every other tourist in the world.
But I suspect we've seen more of the Olympic ... 
It's altogether possible that for the first six months, a dozen chopsticks is all we'll need.
So we by-passed the fancy-schmancy ultra-light with inversely-proportioned-pricetag cutlery sets at Kathmandu, and opted instead to pick up a knife-n-fork ... 
rayres