Sick

So I'll preface this post by saying that I feel pretty good now, so don't start worrying when you're reading the rest of the post.

It all started Wednesday night, into Thursday. I felt really warm in bed, like I had a fever, then I would keep getting the chills, and then the sweats, and body aches and stuff. I woke up on Thursday and took my temperature and it was 101˚F. So I popped some motrin, ate some breakfast and went back to bed. I pretty much slept the whole day, save for lunch and dinner, and about an hour or two after dinner. During the night again on Thursday it was more of the chills and sweats and the fever continued. Friday was pretty much a repeat of Thursday with sleeping the whole day and feeling like poop. Saturday I felt a little better, but still not up to par, and my community was getting a little worried about me, so I told them I'd call my doctor. I called her and she told me the symptoms sounded to her like it could be dengue and that I should come into the capital on Sunday to get some blood tests.

So Sunday morning I woke up nice and early after not getting too much sleep, make my way down to the capital, got my blood tests and checked into my private room at the hostel, complete with air conditioning and cable tv, all paid for by the Peace Corps, or more correctly, you guys, the taxpayers. I wish I had brought my camera so I can show you guys a picture of the room I'm in, not to show you how nice it is, but to show you how cheesy it is. It seriously looks it came from the set of a 70's porn film, not that I've actually seen any 70's porn movies, but this is what I'd imagine them to look like. Or it could be some cheesy motel room. Or maybe a 70's porn that was filmed inside a cheesy motel room...yeah that's it. But the real sad thing is how nice this place actually seems to me. My, how standards have dropped. But it is nice that there are no cocks crowing right outside my window or dogs barking. I've pretty much gotten used to all the animal noises at my site, but when you're sick, they're amplified by about 100 and you want to go out there with a machete and kill them all.

So here I am, it's Monday, I'm feeling a lot better. To celebrate feeling better I walked to McDonalds and got a Big Mac Super Value Meal...supersized. The doctor called me and told me that the results of the Dengue test were not in yet, but that my platelet count was low and that that is usually a sign that it could be Dengue. Tomorrow she wants me to go to the lab again to get my blood drawn to see how my platelets are doing, and also the Dengue results should be in tomorrow as well. I'll keep you all updated on how I'm feeling and if I have some weird tropical disease.