I Shot The Sheriff
Ah, vaccines. You do not even know how much I dred this event. If you thought I was bad with having my blood drawn for my physical (which, since most of you werent there, it was BAD), just wait. I may need extra support present to remind me of how much worse an epidural would be.
The CDC provides great information on recommended vaccines for traveling anywhere in the world. By narrowing my search down to East Asia, I found there are seven vaccines recommended. Thankfully, three of them can be ruled out because we wont be traveling to any rural areas. We’ll be content in Seoul, which is a very well developed city. But there’s still a chance of the people we come in contact with (including our new child) having some of these diseases, so it’d be wise to take a preventative measure. Remind me later that I think this is wise, cause when a needle is being held to my arm, I probably wont be feeling the wisdom.
So, in the end, it looks like I’ll be signing Steve and I up to get our Hepatitis A and Hepatitis B shots in the very near future. While its very likely that we had those immunizations as infants, it turns out they only last 10 years. There’s a slight chance we’ll need a booster for MMR and I should really get my tetanus booster (but when am I around rusty nails?).
If it were just me, I’d run the risk and not get the vaccines. But, I guess I wouldn’t do my new baby much good if I contract some funky disease, right? Just the first in many lessons on the pain and sacrifice of being a parent, I suppose.
Good luck!