Four of our Victorious farmers look over a handout at their weekly meeting
Felix creates some homemade fireworks (think steel wool) at Jake's birthday party last weekend - which I more or less organized, despite my illness...Lessons from typhoid
- Sometimes when you're sick, it's better just to let yourself be sick - no running, no working, no being hard on yourself. Revolutionary.
- There are nice hospitals in Kenya!! The one I went to on Sunday in Kisumu had a shiny white interior (not like the Bungoma hospital, with its crowded benches and "DON'T LIVE IN THE SAME BED WITH CHICKEN, DON'T EAT SICK/DEAD CHICKEN" poster) and got blood, stool, and urine samples from me before issuing a diagnosis. I haven't even given a stool sample in the US, and to be honest I couldn't be sure of a repeat performance... but the intimidation and skepticism in the eyes of the lab technician when he asked, "Really? You can't even produce a little one?" would help anyone through performance anxiety.
- Medication isn't perfect: strong medication can be as poisonous as the illness itself, and the side effects might make it even worse.
- It is a marvelous thing to not be sick anymore.
4 comments:
So glad you are feeling better!
look out world, she's back at full strength!
haha, "not even a little one?"
happy to hear you are feeling better Ammy. Hope it stays that way!
Amber,
Great lessons, especially about letting yourself feel rotten. I find I keep needing to learn that one over and over.
Love,
Mom
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