Well. What a crazy last 36 hours it has been over here on the other side of the world.
Yesterday morning I woke up around 4:45 with the chills rally badly (to the point where I searched until i found an extra sheet to cover up with... and this NEVER happens in Inida). The chills in India can only mean one thing - a fever. So after grabbing a blanket I grabbed the thermometer and took my temp. To my surprise I had a temperature of 102.5. I informed my friends before they left for volunteering that i would not be joining them that day. They all left for mass and i feel back asleep, to only be woken up three hours later (at 830am) by Cora saying "I talked to Sr. Mercy Maria, she thinks we need to go get blood work done" In my half-awake brain i thought to myself "is she really being serious?". and to my surprise, she was. So I slowly woke up, and tried to wrap my mind around the fact that I actually might be sicker than I think. I sat there for a while trying to figure out how i should tell my parents what was going on, and well, the only way to tell them was to just tell them. So i called my parents and let them know about the fever, and the fact that we were going to go to the doctors to make sure everything was okay.
We got to the doctors, and unfortunately I was a little dehydrated so i was not able to pee in the cup for them... hahaha. Then we went back to the patient room and we got ready to give some blood. I warned Cora before hand about how i fainted getting my shots to come here, so we immediate asked the doctor if it was okay for me to lay down and give the blood. In the end it was a very good thing that i was laying down, becuase with being sick and already having some dizziness before hand, it took me a good 10 mins before i was able to sit up without the room feeling like it was spinning. We left the doctors and later that night received the results and to my grateful little heart the results all came back negative... no malaria, dengue fever, typhoid or polio. And today the fever is mostly gone, just hovering around the low 99's/.
I was chatting with one of my favorite volunteer friends, Ebony from Australia, last night. And as I was complaining about having to stay home another day and be bored out of my mind she goes "Maybe, God is trying to tell you to slow down and take a break. Maybe He wants to tell you something." So i am going to take that wonderful peice of advice from Ebony and spend today listening to what God might be trying to tell me.
Yesterday morning I woke up around 4:45 with the chills rally badly (to the point where I searched until i found an extra sheet to cover up with... and this NEVER happens in Inida). The chills in India can only mean one thing - a fever. So after grabbing a blanket I grabbed the thermometer and took my temp. To my surprise I had a temperature of 102.5. I informed my friends before they left for volunteering that i would not be joining them that day. They all left for mass and i feel back asleep, to only be woken up three hours later (at 830am) by Cora saying "I talked to Sr. Mercy Maria, she thinks we need to go get blood work done" In my half-awake brain i thought to myself "is she really being serious?". and to my surprise, she was. So I slowly woke up, and tried to wrap my mind around the fact that I actually might be sicker than I think. I sat there for a while trying to figure out how i should tell my parents what was going on, and well, the only way to tell them was to just tell them. So i called my parents and let them know about the fever, and the fact that we were going to go to the doctors to make sure everything was okay.
We got to the doctors, and unfortunately I was a little dehydrated so i was not able to pee in the cup for them... hahaha. Then we went back to the patient room and we got ready to give some blood. I warned Cora before hand about how i fainted getting my shots to come here, so we immediate asked the doctor if it was okay for me to lay down and give the blood. In the end it was a very good thing that i was laying down, becuase with being sick and already having some dizziness before hand, it took me a good 10 mins before i was able to sit up without the room feeling like it was spinning. We left the doctors and later that night received the results and to my grateful little heart the results all came back negative... no malaria, dengue fever, typhoid or polio. And today the fever is mostly gone, just hovering around the low 99's/.
I was chatting with one of my favorite volunteer friends, Ebony from Australia, last night. And as I was complaining about having to stay home another day and be bored out of my mind she goes "Maybe, God is trying to tell you to slow down and take a break. Maybe He wants to tell you something." So i am going to take that wonderful peice of advice from Ebony and spend today listening to what God might be trying to tell me.
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