Getting ready for Vientiane

As I'm better now, Phil and I have decided to get to Vientiane. But excitement struck again and this time it was in the shape of a cat.

Phil got clawed by it for no reason (it's still young and just wanted to play) and it also nipped my wrist. So now we had to worry about rabies - AARRRGGGHH!

Once in Vientiane, we decided to get it checked out at the embassy clinic, where we fully expected the doctor to laugh at us and say 'Dont' be silly'. Unfortunately, he didn't. Guess you can get rabies from even a lick so in theory, both of us could have it. What to do now? Neither of us had the vaccination done (it would have made everything a whole lot easier) so now we had to decide whether we were going to have the emergency immunoglobin injections!

They told us they only had enough for one person and they were the only facility in Laos that had it available, so we had to decide. In the end, Phil had the immunoglobin (big injection - poor Phil, it hurt lots) and we are both getting the vaccinations done. To be honest, I still worry about having it, but there's nothing I can do about it now.

This also means that we have to stay in Vientiane for at least a week in order to get as many of the injections done as possible before moving on, because there just aren't enough facilities available in Laos. The next clinic that will be able to give us our injections is in Siem Reap, Cambodia.