Sunday, March 19, 2006
Not so Great a Goodbye
Friday night we went out for a goodbye dinner with Solomon, Anton and Neema. By the time our appetizers came to us I started feeling bloated and queasy. Half an hour later I was in the bathroom throwing up.
I tried to eat a couple of bites of the food I'd ordered, and it came right back out within 5 minutes. It kept coming in waves - for 5 minutes I'd be sweaty and dizzy and nauseous, and then for 10 minutes I'd be just fine. Someone suggested I go to the hospital but I thought I'd be okay once I got home, so I said I didn't want to go.
We went home, I laid down, and over the next 2 hours I developed agonizing stomach pain, 100% liquid diarrhea, and I started vomiting bile. I tried to take an antibiotic but I threw it up instantly. Finally Solomon went to find a taxi and we went to the hospital.
I was so weak I could barely stand. They admitted me for the night, gave me 3 or 4 bags of saline to rehydrate me, tried to give me pills, which I threw up, and then they injected a different medication into my arm and I was half-asleep the rest of the night, save for a few trips to the bathroom. I got diagnosed with amoebic dysentery. I don't know how or when I got it, though it's likely that it's from the local water that I drank over 2 weeks ago.
In the morning I was in a daze, but better. The doctor gave me pills, which she said to take with some food, and let me go home. My poor mom stayed up all night in a chair next to my bed.
When we got home I had two bites of food, my pills, and some other ones she gave me for stomach pains. I slept all day after that. I got up for a couple of hours in the evening, had a bit of food, and went back to sleep for another 12 hours.
Today I'm better, but completely exhausted. I can't wait to get home. ¶ 3/19/2006 01:09:00 AM
I tried to eat a couple of bites of the food I'd ordered, and it came right back out within 5 minutes. It kept coming in waves - for 5 minutes I'd be sweaty and dizzy and nauseous, and then for 10 minutes I'd be just fine. Someone suggested I go to the hospital but I thought I'd be okay once I got home, so I said I didn't want to go.
We went home, I laid down, and over the next 2 hours I developed agonizing stomach pain, 100% liquid diarrhea, and I started vomiting bile. I tried to take an antibiotic but I threw it up instantly. Finally Solomon went to find a taxi and we went to the hospital.
I was so weak I could barely stand. They admitted me for the night, gave me 3 or 4 bags of saline to rehydrate me, tried to give me pills, which I threw up, and then they injected a different medication into my arm and I was half-asleep the rest of the night, save for a few trips to the bathroom. I got diagnosed with amoebic dysentery. I don't know how or when I got it, though it's likely that it's from the local water that I drank over 2 weeks ago.
In the morning I was in a daze, but better. The doctor gave me pills, which she said to take with some food, and let me go home. My poor mom stayed up all night in a chair next to my bed.
When we got home I had two bites of food, my pills, and some other ones she gave me for stomach pains. I slept all day after that. I got up for a couple of hours in the evening, had a bit of food, and went back to sleep for another 12 hours.
Today I'm better, but completely exhausted. I can't wait to get home. ¶ 3/19/2006 01:09:00 AM
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aww, sweets, that breaks my heart. As horrible as it is, I'm glad it happened at the end, not the beginning of your trip. How awful. It will feel so good to be home in your own house, with Jim.
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: Sun Mar 19, 07:21:00 AM PST
: Sun Mar 19, 07:21:00 AM PST
what a horrible ending to an otherwise positively-emotional trip.
thank you so much for all the entries. i looked forward to them every day.
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thank you so much for all the entries. i looked forward to them every day.
# posted by : Sun Mar 19, 10:29:00 AM PST
: Sun Mar 19, 10:29:00 AM PST
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