Yesterday, as the travel doctor was finishing giving us our Rabies, Meningococcal and Japanese Encephalitis shots, he said:
It’s possible that the Japanese Encephalitis vaccine could cause an allergic response. In ten years of doing this job I’ve never seen it, but I suppose it will happen one day.
So do I ever feel special today! I woke up with a crushing headache, an itchy rash from the top of my head to my knees, and looking like Cro-Magnon man from the swelling around my eyes. Bring on the antihistamines, baby.


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