Being a South Africa SUPERFAN, I chose to ignore reality pre-trip, and let my excitement and anticipation override my common sense.
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I took the stick-your-head-in-the-sand and pretend it doesn't exist approach...
Not a viable strategy. Just prior to the departure date I awoke with substantial pain in both shoulders. I had NEVER had any such issues before, so was confused as to what had brought this on. I concluded the ONLY thing that had changed in my life was a new set of reclining lounge chairs we recently purchased. They were EXTREMELY hard to close, so I figured I had used leg and arm muscles that had been on hiatus for too long.
Do you know how embarrassing
it is to show up at an Urgent Care Center with the complaint "My Laz-E-Boy kicked my ass"…(I was referring to a chair not my SO).
But being competitive with said SO, it beat his "A crazed rooster kicked my ass" visit years ago, so I stuck with it.
They gave me a Prednisone pack, and Viola!, within 24 hours I was fully functional (if you don't count mental acuity). Perfect! Off we flew and entered our beloved Kruger 5 days later.
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I'll just make the best of what I got, and have fun with it. 
At one point I couldn't even lift my arms enough to fix my own hair. 
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