Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Welcome to my adventure blog

Well, it's now only about 4 weeks that I'm going to be leaving to start a new working life in Lagos, Nigeria.
Have been running around like a lunatic getting all the paperwork in order-Visa applications, Yellow Card (more about that later), copies of 30 year old Uni certificated, a health attest from my doctor, copies of awards, letters of reference and photos. And of course I had to get an offshore banking account as well.
The inoculations all given in one sitting knocked me off the rails with immediate and late symptoms...as I walked out of the Travel Clinic I nearly threw up in the parking lot shrubbery.
The next day my upper arm, both, felt like I had lifted a baby elephant and a week later I had a fever spike and the runs ...from which one I do not know. Yellow fever, Hep A&B, Tetanus, Typhoid, Cholera, Meningitis and God-knows-what nasty creepy-crawlies revved up my immune system to 0-100 in 3 seconds.
Still have to go for a Hep A&B booster and a shot of Beriglobin, which my doc suggested ontop.
Still lots of stuff to do until departure, least of all handing over my current position to my successor.

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