Santiago,
Dominican Republic
Wednesday, June 27, 2007
So this last week or so wasn´t the best week in the DR. I started feeling pretty crappy last week, with a fever and my body hurt, but I was hoping it was just the flu. After a couple of days, I decided to call my doctor at the Peace Corps office, who told me to come in to get tested for Dengue. I was obviously a little too cocky that I was going to avoid the dreaded Dengue for these next two years, and I should have known better, because yeah, I got it. The Dengue. It´s pretty awful, and I only had a mild case of it, and it still sucked. They call it ¨break bone fever¨because your whole body just hurts, even you eyes, and I described it more like how I felt after I ran my marathon...my whole body was just really really sore. I was exhausted and could hardly walk to my bathroom, that´s how much energy my body was depleting. It was a pretty awful week, and I had to stay in the capital for about a week and was a little sad, but I feel A LOT better now, even though I´m suppose to be taking it easy because Dengue affects your liver, and I´m not suppose to be doing a whole lot. But you get Dengue from a certain kind of mosquito here, for those who aren´t up on their tropical diseases! :) Also, you can get dengue repeatedly, so I´m not immune to it, which would be nice if I just didn´t have to worry about it anymore, but no, I¨m still applying the repellent like it´s my perfume. I´m quite lovely down here.
On a sad note, a girl from my Special Ed group, Leah, is Early Terminating, and will be leaving back for the States sometime within the next week. She lives really close to me, so I´m really sad to be losing her, but I´m glad that she´ll be going home and will be happy.
