Wednesday, August 5, 2009

And so it goes....

I have had a rough couple of weeks health-wise. I knew I would get sick over here, but I assumed I would get some sort of GI illness. Not the case. I was getting better from my previous illness and then Monday night..BAMB. I got hit with a fever, chills, aches, etc. Went to the health unit yesterday morning and perplexed the staff. They couldn't tell if I had the flu or strep throat. They put me on Tamiflu and told me to come back the next day. Sure enough, the doc's instincts were correct and I ended up showing the classic signs of strep throat this morning. Now am on antibiotics and hope to be better soon. The staff at the Embassy Health Unit were so nice and just plain kind. (something you don't see too often in the states anymore). I was in really bad shape on Tuesday and they just let me sleep in their office. They didn't want me to be myself. Feeling better today and hope to go back to work tomorrow.

I just saw an email came out to the CDC staff here saying that many people have come down with a "flu-like" illness. I hope I am not getting blamed for this! But I don't have the flu, I definitely have strep. Plus, I think we all picked up stuff in Swaziland. A lot of the staff went there this past weekend.

One interesting side note in all of this: The doctor took samples from me to send off to Atlanta to see if I had swine flu on Monday before we came to the strep diagnosis. Well, the gov't here won't let things like this out of the country. So I guess if there ever is a swine flu pandemic in Mozambique, we will never really know.

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