Ghana: you STILL give me fever, sigh

Sigh, not much to report because today is the first day I have stepped outside my hostel since 6:30 Friday morning because I have been sick, of all things with a throat infection, how exotic I know. However, it had my fever up to 103 for a few days and the rest of me in too much pain to sleep much...so basically the last few days have been wretched. However, some good points remain:
1. I am getting better!
2. My mom, Perry, and dad succeeded in almost making me feel as if they were there to take care of me with their faithful phone calls and reassuring voices (THANK YOU!)
3. My friends here were wonderful bringing me water and juice, food when I could finally eat again, AND a lap top and bootlegged season of Desperate Housewives to watch the last 2 days after the major sickness had passed. Plus, my roommate Maia took me to the hospital at 630 am when the night before we had only gotten 4 hours of sleep.
4. the hospital gave me the right antibiotics apparently, because today is pretty good

the bad points being:
1. i am wimpy and being sick is horrible horrible in ways I don't want to write about
2. had to get another blood sample taken (AHHHHHHH!) :(
3. i have now spent 200 dollars on medical bills in Ghana. ughh


so not much else to report. except one thing I keep forgetting to write about...mold.
Ghana (the humidity) grows it, indoors, in our hostel rooms, just about everywhere. We go about cleaning it with bleach and it just grow back. in our closets, on our chairs, beds, desks, on clothes, shoes, papers, plastics.....

camera is still refusing to work. it turns on but then closes back up. (AH!) still hoping it will just work one of these days


ok hopefully more good things soon!
love love love
Kristin

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