i will be watching "waiting for guffman" tonight!
so, i'm sick. not really sick, not sick enough that i thought i needed to call the pcmo, until... but i'm getting ahead of myself.
i woke up tuesday night in village on my lit pico ( i never sleep in my bed, the cot is at least ten degrees cooler, if you don't mind all the weird marks the ropes leave on your skin) with a low grade fever and general feelings of crappiness. i took some aspirin and one of the vicodin that were left over from when i had my wisdom teeth out way back in seattle.
wednesday was okay, thursday was kind of crappy (i was too tired to chat with my neighbors at night -it's become a ritual- so they were a little concerned), friday i had fevers fluctuating from 95 to just under 103 degrees.
at first i thought maybe it was the flu, but no nausea or diarrhea (i must be one of the only pcvs who can attest to that), then i thought maybe malaria. i was planning on sending a malaria slide to ouaga on transport on monday if it hadn't gotten better.
that is, until i escaped village on a bush taxi to sit in the air-conditioned post so that my brain wouldn't boil and saw another pcv. he said that he had had the same symptoms and asked if my hands and/or feet were peeling. coincidentally, the bottoms of my feet had been peeling but i had thought nothing of it.
he had what is called kawasaki's disease and it can apparently cause aneurysms in some people. so i called sylvie and she told me to get on the next transport (the 7:00 stmb from fada, which made the trip in just under an impossible two and a half hours - the driver must have been going at the speed of light) and come to ouaga.
i'm sitting in the bureau, typing on an english keyboard for the first time in months (all of my a's want to be q's) with a negative malaria test to my name. i'm just waiting on the lab results. even if i do have kawasaki's disease, it doesn't sound that serious (i just have to start an aspirin regimen).
so for tonight, i'll be ordering dinner from the iso (cheeseburgers are a distinct possibility) and watching old episodes of the daily show on vhs.
good times, good times.
if only i hadn't already planned a trip to ouaga a week and a half from now.
i woke up tuesday night in village on my lit pico ( i never sleep in my bed, the cot is at least ten degrees cooler, if you don't mind all the weird marks the ropes leave on your skin) with a low grade fever and general feelings of crappiness. i took some aspirin and one of the vicodin that were left over from when i had my wisdom teeth out way back in seattle.
wednesday was okay, thursday was kind of crappy (i was too tired to chat with my neighbors at night -it's become a ritual- so they were a little concerned), friday i had fevers fluctuating from 95 to just under 103 degrees.
at first i thought maybe it was the flu, but no nausea or diarrhea (i must be one of the only pcvs who can attest to that), then i thought maybe malaria. i was planning on sending a malaria slide to ouaga on transport on monday if it hadn't gotten better.
that is, until i escaped village on a bush taxi to sit in the air-conditioned post so that my brain wouldn't boil and saw another pcv. he said that he had had the same symptoms and asked if my hands and/or feet were peeling. coincidentally, the bottoms of my feet had been peeling but i had thought nothing of it.
he had what is called kawasaki's disease and it can apparently cause aneurysms in some people. so i called sylvie and she told me to get on the next transport (the 7:00 stmb from fada, which made the trip in just under an impossible two and a half hours - the driver must have been going at the speed of light) and come to ouaga.
i'm sitting in the bureau, typing on an english keyboard for the first time in months (all of my a's want to be q's) with a negative malaria test to my name. i'm just waiting on the lab results. even if i do have kawasaki's disease, it doesn't sound that serious (i just have to start an aspirin regimen).
so for tonight, i'll be ordering dinner from the iso (cheeseburgers are a distinct possibility) and watching old episodes of the daily show on vhs.
good times, good times.
if only i hadn't already planned a trip to ouaga a week and a half from now.
posted by danielle at 6:19 PM
1 Comments:
Danielle,
Contrary to your belief Kawasaki Disease is a very serious illness if left untreated can possible cause coronary artery disease. While the symptoms fever, red white of eyes, rash, swollen glands amongst others may disappear the possibility of coronary artery disease is still underlying.
Might I suggest you read:
Information from these source www.kdcanada.ca and www.kdfoundation.org.
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