Dias 13, 14, y 15 Friday morning I woke up to shocking news- not one, but TWO of the boys from our group were in the hospital with stomach trouble! Turns out both Mike and Stephen were suffering from parasites and amoebas, and had to be kept overnight in the private hospital in Xela to be given IV’s and receive parasite medications. All morning I was stressing, trying to figure out what they had eaten and why Matt and I weren’t sick. I guess they must have eaten something together that the rest of the group didn’t have, because thankfully Matt and I never ended up getting sick (well, as sick as they were). With this added reason to worry, I was especially motivated to get my “muestra,” or stool sample, in to the lab where
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