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Sunday, June 6, 2010

Malaria vs. Dentist

You see just cus its the first time doesn't mean you think its cool. No one goes to the dentist like "woopie i get a toothbrush for getting my face hacked at and eyes filled with drill particles for hours!" Same thing for malaria, you see. Only a pure fool will take a bath in sugar water then go running through the bush, except me of course. Not sugar water, just white skin ---in an unpigmently challenged land. Upppgrade. Anyway its starts like this.
    Dentist - the man sits you down in a semi-comfy chair. Africa - you leave your house for a normal day. The dentist begins to smile, this is when you know something fishy is up. That free toothbrush has got more strings attached than a free wifi sign in africa. You go to entebbe to talk to a friend and on the way you start to wonder hmm "do i feel funny?" Back at the dentist, he takes a drill and says this is just to clean your teeth don't worry.  "are you ready?" Of course your mouth is split too wide to say yes or no. First dentist trick. You put your head down just for a second on the ride home from entebbe to catch some rest from your meeting. The drill comes closer to your teeth. You wake up. and BAM! you got a headache. by two different methods. One by dentist other by malaria.
   So that i don't take the rest of both our days i'll speed things up. Day one i got no sleep, i dont know my temperature. Same as first night home from the dentist. shoot, you got a new tooth brush! who can sleep after that? I was up all night, the temperature on my wrist from my watch reached 102F which on every human is a fever. I took some medicine that one of the uncles gave me. Bad move. (It's like if your friend, who is NOT a dentist, says "hey can i try drilling at your teeth?" You say, "nope!") It was a kind of medicine but not the best and a children's dose. Second day i go to the doctor to see what's wrong. Got told 300 times i'm not a kid anymore. Who knew. Asked a missionary Loring Morris if i could stay in their quiet home. She said yes, Winner! Second night no sleep, i'm on Lonart and some weird IBprofin which works about like IBnothin. Then next night just as bad, found out its not location location location. It probably has something to do with hydration hydration hydration. I held a bad fever all the way until i finally took some Aleve Loring gave me. Fever broke that night, woke up an hour after sleeping, in a rice field of sweat. It was like winning the super bowl and then having someone squeeze 50 lemons in your mouth. Happiness is confusing sometimes. went back to bed though. Next day was on off but no fever. That night i got a weird feeling when i took a deep breath. It was the same feeling you get when you swim all day. But i slept for 10 hours that night. A pure miracle. Went to the doctor and found out i now have some gastrol acid problem. But now it feels better. And so do i. See, it was all over about as fast as the dentist and we can all have a bright white smile about it! Hope everyone is doing well. Thank you for the prayers they helped a lot!
Andrew

2 comments:

  1. Thinking bout ya! Keep looking after yourself. Prayers going out across the oceans...

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  2. AHHHH! BUMMER BROTHER MAN. Sorry to hear. Hope your better now?

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