After coming back from the rafting trip, I swore I had food poisoning since I couldn't keep any food down. Even drinking water hurt my stomach. I was trying to look back and think about all the street food I had eaten the last few weeks to think which one had done the trick.
I woke up this morning sweating and felt really hot so I asked my roommate Naishin if I could use her thermometer and my temperature was about 102 degrees (about 39 degrees). That's relatively high for me but I thought I'd wait it out to let the heat kill the bacteria in my stomach.
Naishin and Katharine left for work and I decided to rest at home today.
Had to run to the bathroom about 7 times feeling sick through the day but after Peter called me at 2pm and sounded extremely worried, I thought I should really go see the doc. Katharine and Naishin picked me up with BRAC's driver and took me to a clinic in town. I was extremely dehydrated from not being able to keep water down that I felt extremely dizzy and couldn't really sit still.
After finally seeing the doctor of what it seemed to be of a really long wait (although it was prob only about 30 min to an hour), he let me go lie down on a bed and take in some IV fluids while running some blood tests.
The doctor came back telling me that there were small signs of Malaria in my blood. I was a bit confused, does that mean I have Malaria? I always thought Malaria was either you have it or not. But I think the symptoms I had were in the early stages 'cause I didnt have those hung-over like headaches or really bad fevers like I'd read about.
Anyhow, I got my shot in my butt and I gotta take a few pill cocktails for the next few days but Malaria is even more common than the flu so thank god I got it here... But I can't believe I got Malaria after 3 weeks in Uganda and after taking Malarone which cost me $400. I'm definitely gonna try to get that money back...
Well, all I gotta say is thank goodness for my lovely roommates Katharine and Naishin. Wouldn't have made it without them!
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