Thanks. Interesting post, yours.
Somewhere along the way I had to get cholera shots, now forgotten for which country, but not in the stans/Mid-East. Only thing I remember is pain and a red spot on my arm.
Did you eventually serve ‘somewhere’ in the Peace Corps?
No, my Afghan training was it. The rabies shots started burning as they went in—it was interesting watching my arm muscles reacting to the shot. But in a lot of ways the cholera shots were worse. Many woke up the next morning sick from them (that’s why they gave them the night before our days off). Mine felt as though someone had punched me in the arm a dozen times or so. I was lucky to have been deselected the day before the gamma globulin shots. People who got them described them as being like large syringes full of something as thick as honey.