Sick...

So I have not been sick much in recent years.  And if I was I always had my mom (love you), or even my brother that I lived with to kind of look out for me.   Well the other night I got home from work but did not have too much of an appetite to eat.  I don't know why, I had some perfectly delicious Spam and some fresh baked rolls.  Well I did not eat dinner, and soon afterwards started throwing up.  I don't mean the kind of throw up where you feel much better afterwards, I mean the kind that makes your sides and stomach muscles ache.

This decided to go on for the next 20 hours or so, just a good bit of vomiting on the hour, also accompanied by a large fever.  Now I don't have a thermometer but I know when I am getting a fever.  Now when you get sick at home you drive to the store and buy whatever of the many drugs you need.  But when its the middle of the night and there is only one pharmacy in town, which is closed by the way.  Rumor is the owner is in jail, don't ask me why.  You have to make due.  So I rummage through some medicine in the closet, a vast assortment from different countries and different languages.  Trying to find Tylenol to reduce the fever.  Of course it can't be that simple, it seems the US is the only country that has Tylenol, and I could not remember the active ingredient in my fits of vomiting.  I finally found one that did not look too old, and promised to reduce fevers, so I took 4, and low and behold an hour later my fever seemed to go away.

Well now the fever is under control but I am in a very hot country sweating a lot with no AC and can't keep liquids in my body.  I am severely dehydrated so I try sipping some sprite.  Well now I had the pleasure of throwing up Sprite.  I decided if it went on for longer then 24 hrs to go to the hospital just for fears of passing out due to lack of water.  Luckily it stopped and I am feeling much better, but being sick alone, and crawling around the house is no fun. 

Now that I feel better I am craving all of that food you want after you were sick, like soup.  So I go to the Chinese shops in town in search of soup.  Well first I have to explain what soup is to the people, which is hard to do, because I wanted to say "Its liquidity, you know like soup".  So between the language barrier and the people never apparently having soup, I failed.  I did find two shops that knew what I was talking about, but did not have it.  So I was stuck between foods I knew would be good on the stomach, $2 noodles, $40 cereal, $10 snickers bar.  I went with the noodles and snickers bars.  I mean $40 for a box of counterfeit Kellogg's is just outrageous.

I missed all the friends and family back home, and hope you enjoy some soup next time you are sick.

Luke