quicko: bug cream

Well, I'd call it bug spray, but it wasn't a spray, it was a cream.  To keep mosquitoes away.  I guess you could kind of say it worked, but that might have had more to do with the fact that our night cruise got cancelled ...

quicko: glandular fever

AKA mono.  Who knew!?  Throughout my time here I've occasionally heard of someone having glandular fever, but just recently connected that it's the same thing as mono.  There you go.

quicko: "in plaster"

At least British (I'm really not sure if it's Australian or not) for "in a cast."

Also, "a plaster" is what Americans would call a "Band-Aid."

quicko: health checks

The Australian term for physicals.  Here's the really intriguing thing, though:  they don't get them every year or even every other.  It's more, it seems, a recommended thing to do every ... so often?

quicko: peroxide

Growing up, peroxide was always my family's first line of defense against infection, but here no one seems to think twice of it.  Particularly the medical professionals I'm friends with.  I explain to them how I've sustained a minor injury and put peroxide on it (peroxide that I bought when I was home in America) and they go, oh, yeah, well, okay, if you feel like it I guess it won't hurt.  This is peroxide!  The mighty warrior of the medical cabinet!  It cures ... well, everything, right?  How the average bathroom here doesn't stock it is utterly beyond me -- what do people use??

quicko: medicine

Panadol.

That's it, Panadol. It's the Tylenol. Just so you know if you visit and need some. I haven't had it (I operate on a BYOTylenol basis), but it's what everyone takes. Panadol. Don't forget.

Panadol.