“d” for decision day

Today I woke up to go to the Instituto de Higiene e Medicina Tropical next to the Egas Moniz Hospital (long way in public transports) to take the mandatory vaccines to go to India. When I get there I realize that are no mandatory vaccines but the Doctor starts to advice me a complex list of meds and vaccines. In the end he prescribed me 4 vaccines, 2 bug sprays (one for me, other for the bed bug protection), 2 things for diarrhea, 1 for fever, and other anti-insect thing… I already feel hypochondriac with so many things.

In one side I have two vaccines waiting for me (the others two only can be taken in the local medical center - hepatitis A - and the other - malaria - by pills during the first month in India), in the other side of the cell phone I have my mother and all the doctors of Hospital Amadora Sintra screaming “Don’t take that shit! Don’t put those things on your body!” but ohoh I already payed! So… I took for typhoid (+- 30 EUR) and for poliomyelitis (+- 11 EUR), which I already had taken as a child. Plus 53 EUR for medical service. I am giving you this useful information in case you are curious about it or if some day you decide to go to India. While we are at it, I think I wont take the hepatitis one. Hope nothing happens to me!!

Now the decision’s part… After the vaccines’ saga I came home and I signed the Acceptance Note (the paper that commits you with an internship) for Jodhpur, India. Now I am not so sure anymore because they are not giving the answers I need right now. It is so hard to know which is the best decision! None is… Me and my EP manager are beeing so stern with those guys ahah it’s exasperating and funny at the same time. They can’t get relaxed!!! So… let’s see if there aren’t any more changes.