Tuesday, April 24, 2007

And the results are in...

Hello everyone, it's been awhile since I last updated this thing, so I figured I would do it now. So what is new in my life...

Well, I'm still in school and we only have 3 more days left!!! It's so crazy how time is just flying by and I'm not even sure as to where the time has went. It's been fun and I really like my teacher. She seems to be more challenging than my previous teacher from last session and she's getting me to talk more, which is better for my Spanish.

But the results that are in is that I have 3 things wrong with me inside my body...

The first being that I have an intestinal infection, which is basically just a lot of bad bacteria inside of my intestine.
The second being that I have gerardia, (I think that's how it's spelled) which is basically another bacteria inside of me that is caused by eating something that isn't cooked well or drinking some water from here. I haven't really done either, so I'm not really sure where these infections came from. But nonetheless, I have them.
And the third and final thing that is wrong inside of me is that I have anemia, which means that I just have low iron in my blood. I'm not sure where this came from because I've been taking vitamins. But I still have it.
Yep, I'm falling apart ;)
So I found all of this out by giving a sample of blood yesterday and then getting the results and then after that we went to Doctora Miara in Jojotenango, where she read my results and listened to my "symptoms" and diagnosed me with these things. So now I have 2 pills to take 2 times a day and then after I finish these pills, one is for 3 days and the other is for 5 days. Then I have some powder to mix with water to build my immune system back up because these pills are going to kill both the good bacteria and the bad bacteria in my stomach. And then after I finish this, I have anemia pills to take for 1 month. How fun, right?

So this is the new news that's going on with me. And my teacher informed me today that I've been tired lately because when a person has low iron in their blood, they are often more tired. So I don't have a lot of energy, but eventually it'll get better and don't worry all of you because my teacher is constantly asking me what I've had to eat...she seems to be taking care of me :)

So other than that, I'm buried in homework and dreading a final on Friday. But I'm looking forward to moving back to Magdalena, which we are doing on Sunday at about 3:00 in the afternoon. So I think that covers it all.
Drop me a line and let me know how all of you are doing!!

Love you and miss you all!!!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

MEGAN!!!! Sorry to hear that you are having some health issues, but that is good that you are getting better!!! Hope you get better soon and are back to your old shelf!!
I love you!!