Vaccines

Being “sick” here, even just exhausted (in the literal sense) and feeling hung-over as hell from yesterday’s vaccines, Japanese encephalitis, rabies, Hepatitis A, and something else,) has a whole new level of reality. It’s not just acting sick for chicken soup and a day off. A day off would be fatal to my language learning. It’s feeling confused, disoriented, and lethargic. Forgetting where you are, but putting on a very healthy face for the “emmay.” Not at all painful though, not too bad. Raining again, which is considered a very good sign in this constantly dehydrated country. We “brought the rain” to Nalaikh the night we came, so we are considered lucky.

Napped, feeling a little better but life is still a little dreamish.