Life after CHOGM!!

Hello all! Sorry for the delay…I have been told that I am making people bored (wink wink Maureen) because I am not posting new topics. The internet has been so extremely slow and I just cant be bothered to spend 45 minutes to open google.

Not a lot of news to write about, so I will tell you all about illness #3 because I find it really funny. Actually, when I told Josh about it I laughed the whole time…he didn't find it as humourous as I did!

It must have been two weeks ago now. I started getting these “bites” late at night and I woke up, turned on the light (I had electricity that night!!) and scanned my room for a mosquito. I couldn’t find anything so I went back to bed…and again I was itchy. I thought then, that there must be something in my bed. Anyway, I finally feel asleep. When I woke up in the morning…HOLY COW…I had these…ummm…let me call them mutations…all over my ENTIRE body. There were weltches about the size of saucers or pancakes, bright red, and about ½ an inch thick. They were very hot and very very very itchy.

I called Daddy Tusu and he told me come to his office, so his brother (a Doctor) could look at me. Dr. Alex told me to go to the hospital and get a shot…

Like a good little Muzungu I went to the hospital…yes, let me admit I was freaking out…just a little bit!

I get to the hospital and it was very early, so there was not that many people and I got to see the Doctor right away. When the Dr. called me, he entered his office and sat down. AS SOON AS I WALKED INTO THE EXAM ROOM I LIFTED UP MY T-SHIRT TO HIM THE HUGE WELT ON MY STOMACH. The look on the Dr’s face was priceless, a little fear mixed with disgust he immediately slammed the door shut and asked me what I had eaten. He told me I was having an anaphylactic reaction to something and I need to get an immunization.

Off I go to the nurse’s station where I had a very unpleasant experience from Illness #2 where I was lucky to have received my first ever needle in the bum!!! Love it…I recommend it…incase you ever get bored…you might just want to get one!

Before I continue…I need you to understand something. In Uganda, at the hospital I went to anyway, they use needles that have the diameter much the same as a nail…good lord, you feel that needle for 2 weeks after…

Ok…I continue…

I sit down on the Doctors table/bed…whatever you call it. The nurse says, “This is going straight into the vein”…OK! SO? I’m a humanitarian…NOT a Doctor…I DIDN’T have any idea why that we would be any different…She was very gentle…but how gentle can one be when they are stabbing you with a …nail…. as she injected the medicine I said “Oh my! That really really hurts” so she takes the needle out and that left a huge cavern in the vein, and started to massage my hand a little…that is when I could feel that medicine go up my arm, I started to get VERY HOT, then VERY Nauseous, then I told the nurse “Please give me a bucket, I am going to vomit” which to her probably sounded something like “ MMMMMERRRMERRRRMERRR” and then I passed right out…cold!!!

I have no idea how long I was laying there, but I was woken up to Miss…. then I think she said Muzungu…. Anyway when I woke up I felt much better… I went home on a Boda Boda (Motorcycle Taxi) and went to sleep for the entire day. The spots went away in the reverse order of the way they came, but they took a whole week to go away. It was the strangest thing. I think the Doctor was shocked at the way they appeared on my white skin. My friends told me that when they get spots like that they do not turn pink!!!

As of late in a nutshell…CHOGM is OVER thank the lord. School is coming to an end and my final coursework papers are due. Exams are on the week of the 10th. Josh arrives on the 17th!

Just a little observation…IF you read the blog a month ago about CHOGM you will understand this. My apartment is across the street from a major tourist attraction and they put street lights down my street, which is a really wonderful idea, because at night there is petty crime caused by the darkness and the lights would make the area safer…HOWEVER the lights worked for…lets count…two days before CHOGM…the four days of CHOGM…and two days after CHOGM…now the lamps sit there unlit!!! How wonderful! God Bless the Queen who helped prevent petty crime for a whole EIGHT days!!!

Have a great day…especially those of you in -20 weather…I send you my wishes from the comfortable +30!!!!!