In response to yesterday's picture from the Jungle, the other reader (there two readers you know) asked, via email, if we were given anti-malaria medication during jungle training. My response to the reader was positive and thought maybe quinine. With further reflection I came to doubt quinine. Several of the Marines got sick with malaria like symptoms from the medicine. Quinine probably would not have acted like that. In my travels in South East Asia I was often on anti-malaria medication. Travels there prevented me from being a blood donor for years.
That reader also asked if we received other vaccines. "Multiple" was my response. Perhaps I can find my Marine vaccine record for reference. Could my never having COVID have any connection to all those immunizations? Currently I take every vaccine that's available. Being old enough to remember polio before vaccine, has given me great respect for their efficacy. In addition to many immunizations in the Marines, I often went to a travel clinic for more before international travel. It wasn't until travelling to Africa that I was immunized for yellow fever. There is no yellow fever in Asia.
All of this caused me to reflect on my health during my enlistment. I have no recollection of either Ed or I being sick. My enlistment was for three years and Ed's for four, because he's more patriotic than I. I'll have to ask Ed. When we were assigned to a battalion after boot camp we had a dental check-up. When the dentist discovered I still had my wisdom teeth they were quickly pulled. Even though I had braces as a boy the orthodontist didn't recommend their removal. Removing them didn't lay me up at all.
Takk for alt,
Al
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