Sick Day

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0600 (Saturday) went for walk with God and had diarrhea

0700 rush to house to use restroom

0715 fell asleep on couch

0900 go to Sabbath School

1000 leave before Sabbath School is done and realize I don’t feel so good

1200 Temp: 101.1 F

1300 lay on Ann and Rich’s couch in Bendalay

1330 scale says 165

1500 eat stew

1520 poop stew

2100 want to die I feel so bad

0023 (Sunday) discuss with Esther and Liz possible treatment options (assuming I have Geardia) and ability to still go to N’djamena

0430 wake up again at house with fever (oh so hot) and diarrhea

0530 decide officially to not go to N’djamena. Hard choice but there’s no rest stops on the way

0853 dozed at Ann and Rich’s

0900 scale says 160

0959 understand better the ruthless evilness or geardia or whatever it is I have

1000 temp: 100.5 F

1315 shower in real shower, wash and shampoo hair, ahh

1426 eat two pieces of toast

1500 poop toast

1510 scale says 160 –barely

1835 temp 98.0 F

1900 Took two Tylenol PM

0300 (Monday) woke up and thought I had to go to the bathroom but didn’t because there is nothing to poop out.

0713 get up

0919 scale says 158

1000 ate bowl of homemade grits –waited for poop to come, never did

1200 ate normal lunch – still no poop

1400 Ashta, wife of hospital chaplain Noel who helps Wendy, commented on how I’ve lost weight – I saw her yesterday

1424 got tested for malaria and typhoid. Stool test later. Still not on meds but feel much less like dieing

1700 finished roll of TP that I started Saturday morning

0700 (Tuesday) scale says 155

0830 feel fine – still not taken meds

1400 Ahh the joys of Malaria! .1%

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