Sorry that I'm emailing a day late this
week but this week has been a very upside down one. You see on Friday this week
we left our house to go to some appointments. The first appointment that we
went to I made it fine but during the middle of the lesson I started feeling
really feverish. We walked to the next appointment but I felt really clammy and
sluggish and by the time that we had gotten to the next lesson and had finished
it my vision had started to go in and out. As we finished the second
appointment and stood up I started blacking out, I sat down and told my
companion "We need to go home". So we called the mission doctor and
he said that we would have to wait until the next day for him to come by and
check on me. As we walked what was normally a 20 min walk back home I had to
stop and sit down every hundred feet so that I didn't pass out. We ended up making
it back home in about an hour. The next day (Saturday) the A.P.s came by and
drove me to Kampala where I met the Medical doctor for the mission. He took me
to one of the best clinics in all of Uganda (It was created by a wealthy
British doctor). While I was there they tested my blood and diagnosed me with
malaria. So now I have malaria. I spent the rest of the day on an I.V. and they
gave me all these funky drugs to take. I took about 14 pills that day. The next
day I went to some church housing in a place near Kampala called Ntinda. That
day I took 10 pills. the following day, another 10. When they finally released
me from the clinic I felt a lot better but every once in a while I will lay
down on my bed and feel like I'm slowly dying. I drink about 3-4 liters of
water a day, its the only way to keep the disease down, but I hate having to
force all this water down. I also have no appetite either so it's really hard
to get food down, but I just have to push it down. I got permission to go out
and email today. It felt good to be outside and smell the fresh air, but
walking around makes me get a fervor usually and feel extra sick. I feel pretty
sick right now but now as bad as I did yesterday. They say that I should be
back to full health in about 1-2 weeks. I hope I get get better soon, we were
supposed to have two baptisms this weekend, but if I'm not around most of this
week, then it will be difficult to get them baptized this weekend.
Sorry if I sound like I'm being a downed
this week with the whole malaria thing. But the good news is I'm in some of the
best hands right now. Dr Johnson (the mission doctor) lives right next door to
where I stay and he's keeping very good care of me. His wife feeds me and my
companion every night and she really knows how to cook. We are also in one of
the best apartments in the whole mission right now and we live right across
from the A.P.s, who are very helpful in making sure that I'm doing alright.
Love you guys, I hope that you all have
a great week.
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