Vaccination

Seeing as we'll be spending the New Year in the Northern Hemisphere and traveling through airports thought it might be a good idea to get the Swine flu vaccination before going. It's free to everyone here but because we're not Aussies we had to pay the full doctors consulation fee. What this "consultation" consisted of was asking me why I wanted to get the vaccine and filling out a name and address form. After the "consultation" we were handed over to a nurse who sat us down in separate chairs, asked us to read a Swine flu vaccination risks form (listing lots of scary things that happened only to 1 out of a million people who got the injection) and sign at the bottom saying we didn't mind. The injection was not something I was dreading but the nurse carried out the task in the careful and measured manner of a McDonalds cashier during the lunchtime rush - alcohol wipe, injection, band-aid (in no particular order). Our suspicions rose when, while standing at reception later, we noticed the missus' arm had a spot of blood on it and that the nurse had evidently put the band-aid over a freckle instead! At this stage I was really starting to feel like maybe we hadn't got value for money. I somehow managed to convince my body of this because I started to feel very faint (dang, not again) and had to be rushed back into the room with the beds. All the beds were occupied so the nurse kindly kicked out an elderly lady who was lying down in the nearest one and let me lie down until my blood pressure climbed back to normal. And I got to chew on a couple of jelly babies too. Finally, value for money.