As the days got closer and closer my excitement, nerves and fears grew stronger and stronger!! I really couldn't wait to get my butt on that plane to Lima, Peru!!!! Four months in South America!!!! Hellllll yes!! get me down there!! Two days before take off was when it started to hit me. My chest became heavy, then the cough started and then the stuffed up nose. I was sick. I usually have a pretty strong immune system. When others around me are suffering from the latest sickness that is going around I am as fit as a spring chicken. But as luck would have it I was pretty much aching for my bed the last two days I was home getting ready for the trip. The night before I couldn't sleep. I was hacking and
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