Trepidation about the Haiti - Habitat Trip

This past Friday the time had come - the time about which I had the most trepidation regarding this whole Haiti trip/Habitat build.  I somehow let myself get worked up about this.  It's funny now as it was much ado about nothing.

I was told that the anti-malarial pills I had to take starting two weeks before my trip would "probably make me very sick."  Considering I have to take these pills - one a week - for seven weeks, I was a little unnerved.  I will be taking the second pill the night before I start the trip and the third pill will be ingested while I'm in Haiti.  Who wants to be sick while away?  Plus, when I picked up the prescription it had a sticker on the top of the bottle that read, "May cause blurred vision."  Great.

This past Friday was the big night.  I decided to take the first pill during dinner.  I had visions of making a big, pink pill sandwich in my stomach.  I ate about 2/3rds of the meal, took the pill and finished dinner.  There was a good deal of food in my stomach.  For some reason, that made me feel better.  (Sorry to my clinical friends.  Please don't gasp at my naiveté!)  And then I waited....and waited some more.

Guess what?  Nothing!  Absolutely nothing happened.  I would occasionally do a "body check."  Stomach?  Good.  Head?  No headache.  Vision?  Normal, middle-aged blurriness - nothing more.  Everything seemed fine.  Finally, a few hours later, I announced, "I think this malaria pill thing is going to be a non-event." 

Of course, I will probably follow the same routine this Friday night - another pink pill sandwiched between food layers in my stomach.  I won't fix what's not broken.  The good thing is that I have not found another "thing" to fixate on.  I am really ready to go now and hope there is no more self-created ado about anything!