Man was this a week.
Transfers came in! Good news I stay!
We had a fast beginning of the week, but I forgot one teensy
weensy little detail, that is so necessary and huge/crucial to move
along.
We went about our normal week. Monday was lame, cause the
Makoi elders forgot the key, and no one was coming with it, and they did not
think about that.... luckily the bishop happened to be passing by....
Other thing that happened Monday was, the Con-man! This is
way funny. We went to a bakery to get lunch last Monday after emailing. As I
was buying my stuff, E. Motuliki was looking at what he wanted. After I had
bought my food, I turned to find a man talking to E. Motuliki. He handed him a
cologne.... I asked him what the guy wanted? He was just looking very confused and just
smiled at me... Well He later was able to tell me, cause he couldn't think on
the spot there, that the guy essentially took his money, hahaha.
He came up just handing him one bottle of cologne, but
recognized 2 of us, and handed 2. He offered it as a gift shoving it in his
hands. (lesson number 1 "Don't take candy from strangers") Well
he then said well, I will give them to you $15 each, with this sticker he put
on saying it cost $125 I knew there is no way they would sell a $125 cologne.
Then he said 10 each, but when he gave the money, it ended being $16 each, then
he just ran off, and got on the bus! hahahahaha. I was dying laughing. If he
would have talked to me I could have helped him, but he got conned $32 hahaha.
I have been teaching him to not show off his money hahaha.
Tuesday for district meeting, our bus tire blew out, luckily
as we were stopping, we ended up jumping on another bus, that took ages since
it went way far. We had to walk a ways to catch it, but barely got to district
meeting on time. I told Nawahine the exact time we were out. We arrived exactly
when I said we would. Still as punctual as I can be.
Back to what I forgot to do, I was hospitalized on Saturday.
I got put on an IV drip. So it is not that I forgot it, more that I was pretty low
when I got struck with the flu. Add that to sweating in hot temperatures, and
you get dehydrated way fast. I had a really bad headache really fast. I took 3
tylenol 500 mg then 3 hours later called our new medical specialist. I had told
her I have been drinking water, and I took tylenol, so she told me to keep
drinking the water, then hours later take 1 more tylenol, cause my headache had
not changed. Well this got worse fast. My headache was really intense at this
point, I still can't move my eyes off center, and when you close your eyes,
they roll, so that hurts. I draped a hand towel over my eyes to block all light
from entering. Then I started vommitting. I vommited everything in my stomach.
All the water I would try to drink would just come back out 15 minutes later.
The med Spec. told me if it is not better by the next morning, then I would go
to Suva private. I was unhappy with this descision, cause I was in pain, and
only getting worse. Nevertheless, I followed. I spent most of the night at the
toilet puking. It was the worst night ever. I looked at my poster, and
remembered the nights that I would be in pain at home, and how mom would always
help me if I had nothing else I knew how to do. Well didn't have that this
time. I was going to have to endure a bit longer than a few hours. The next
morning, I called early. I stayed pretty calm (all things considered) and told
her what had occurred through the night. She told me that I should go to Suva
private. Now that I have no energy in my body, I have to catch a bus to
Nausori, then another to Suva for a 2+ hour trip, then a taxi to the hospital
form the Suva taxi stand..... Well I used all the strength I had left to get
there. I was very week while in there. The doctor put me on a drip, and after
the first dripped finished, I felt my stomach churn. I hoisted myself up, and
luckily a bathroom was just across the hall. I could feel it coming, I
told E. Motuliki to help me move the machine. We barely got there in time for
me to puke out more water. I sat there a while, then wandered back to my room,
and waited for the doctor. He came in with Morphine for my insane headaches.
Let me tell you, morphine is not so wonderful at first. He injected it for my
entire body to feel as it had all been flexed and exhausted.... Then the
headaches slowly seeped away. They started the second drip. Then they gave some
pills for my stomach. I had a bit of morphine, so I used the grace period to
fill myself with water. Man was it an experience. Went to church the next day,
then rested. Staying out of the sun like the pill said.
the con-logne
hospital drip
sick at home
bus goes flat!
