Tuesday 4-29-14

Tuesday 4-29-14

                Today has been a pretty rough day all around. Ayla woke up very early with a bad cough and a sore throat. We gave her tea with ginger to help soothe the throat. The rainy season is starting to come to an end and so the dust is beginning to affect her. Hopefully allergy meds will help her. We all went off to school to have breakfast so we could check on how much of the porridge was being wasted. While at breakfast I got sick and had to run home. After a few minutes at the house I came back to school to see if I could manage to make it through. After just a minute at the school we realized that the buckets of pencils Asa had sharpened the night before were left on the table at home, so back I went again. After getting to the school for another time, I lasted only about five minutes. I was having sweats and then massive chills. I was sent home. So my day was spent with fever and other uncomfortableness. To make all of this sickness better, my anti-malarial medication makes me hypersensitive to the sun. I have burns resembling chemical burns all over my face. New burns showed up inside my left ear and on my left eye lid. These burns hurt so bad, I just wish they would go away. At school, Asa had issues getting the kids to listen at school. It was just something in the air today. So many of them would just not pay any attention or they would not stop pushing others.

                Mamaliz got concerned since I had a fever and so she had Dr. Sion come by the house to check on me. He is not sure what it is (not like there are tests here to figure it out) but he is pretty sure I do not have malaria or typhoid. It is most likely just something I caught from one of the kids or from the ground water. It is pretty much impossible to take a shower without getting any of the water on your mouth. The ground water is dirty with things and so you do not drink it at all. Well we don’t, the locals do and they just have worms and parasites. I was ‘prescribed’ some hydrating powder for my water that I can only assume is the way that urine tastes. I made it through some of it by adding crystal light to it, but I give up. I will just deal with being dehydrated.

                For now, it is back to bed and I will probably be stuck here at the house again all day tomorrow. I don’t want to get any of the kids sick, but I so enjoy watching Asa teach and tomorrow is his last day of teaching. Thursday is some holiday here and so no school, then we leave on Friday to start out trip to Dar es Salaam. He leaves on Sunday night but we are making a few stops along the way. We will be doing a day at a Safari thing for Jove’s birthday, I better feel well fast!