Terribly Sick!

After calling home Saturday afternoon, I went home to cook dinner. During dinner and all that evening I kept feeling funny little electric pulses in my skin. Over the next few hours the pulses turned into chills, and by midnight I had a fever. It was terrible. My back and legs ached so much.  By Sunday morning I was vomiting and other such yuck symptoms.  Sunday was miserable; I hadn’t slept the night before from pain and running to the bathroom every five mins. I took multiple showers to try to bring my fever down. One such ended in tears and me shivering so much Jay was starting to freak out. After twenty-four hours of fever, 3500 mg of something like Tylenol, and the realization I was going to have to deal with this for another night, Jay and I decided it would be best to seek professional help! He went next door to the tienda,that is, literally, the house across from ours. They explained that a doctor could come to the house for 100 pesos or so. Thank you Jesus!! Call him immediately I begged!  After the longest 30 mins of my life, he finally arrived. It was about 10 pm. He immediately took my temp: over 102 degrees. He pushed around my stomach a min, and decided I have some sort of gastric infection, possibly a parasite from not washing fruit well enough, or from brushing my teeth with sink water. I got a shot for the vomiting, a pain reliever/ fever reducer, and an antiobiotic. Jay then realized he misunderstood what it would cost. For me to go to the doctor’s house it would have been 100 pesos or so, for him to come to the house, it is 200 plus the cost of meds, 600 pesos altogether.  Though it was more than what we expected, its pretty good deal for $45! I immediately swallowed the fever medicine. Sunday night was spent painless, but tossing and turning with bouts of sweating and chills and more vomiting. UGH!! Will this never stop!? Monday I was hoping to go to market in Pochutla, it’s the last market day until Christmas and we need groceries, but Sunday night didn’t allow sleep either! Monday I was feeling better, had no fever and only threw up once during the day, but I still could not sleep.  I ate crackers and a little soup, and hoped for rest all day! Yet to no avail, still no sleep. Monday night, I finally read the warnings on the fever reducer/pain reliever box, it does cause insomnia. Great. I have been taking this stuff every six hours to keep my fever at bay, yet the whole time it was keeping me from resting. Why would they make medicine that doesn’t let you sleep? Which is what  a sick person really needs, right?? Ok, so I’m done with that medicine. Monday afternoon I got a weird headache, and it is still here as I am typing at 6am Tuesday morning, awake all night again, no sleep in 3 days now!! All the prayers out there, I have some requests: that the fever doesn’t return because I can’t take that medicine again and I need some sleep; that it really is just a parasite, and not malaria (all the symptoms are the same, down to the body aches, nervous system electric “pulses”, headaches, and high spiking fevers); and that I am just well!!!! Being sick in paradise is even worse than at home. I miss my bed! I miss my momma! Thank goodness for Jay, he has been taking such good care of me, but he needs rest as well! 

Update: I feel almost 100% better, but I have had a headache since monday that hasnt gone away yet

On an unrelated note, I have these on my camera so I’ll post them now. These are pics of some of the wildlife that has visited the inside of our home here in the past two weeks!  Watch out!!