Sickness

So finally, after almost 1 & a half weeks of on and off illness, I am finally feeling much much better, thanks in part to Cipro!

I first starting having all the signs of an intestinal bug when I was in Kélibia the weekend of Sept 26th-27th. That was pretty bad, especially since I had to take an almost 2 hour public taxi back to Tunis and then another cab back to my house, but I survived.

And then, I got better.

Jess, my roommate, came back to Tunis the following Wed (Sept 30), and our friend Zach went with me to the airport (in his friend's truck!) to pick her up. I was so happy to have her back! Even though Cardea (Adonia Thiyya) does provide some needed company, Jessica is much better. She took us out to a really delicious pizzeria in Ennasr to celebrate, and we had 2 really tasty salads and a huge thick crust vegetarian pizza.

Then, the next night I woke up with a fever, Zach was so sick he couldn't make it into work, and we were all afraid to leave the house, for obvious reasons. I had to go down to see a doctor about the harkous allergic reaction [see previous post], and the dermatologist was a really sweet woman who gave me cortisone cream. I told her ab the infection and she sent me down the hall to, guess who?, her brother, a general practitioner. He determined that I definitely had some type of bacteria messing with my GI system and gave me some antibiotic my mom had never heard of - Norvix.

And, to make a long story short and relieve some of your suspense - the antibiotic didn't work! At all! I was still feeling terrible on Monday, which was the day after I finished the 3 day dosage.

So, as any student of medicine educated in science 101 classes, wikipedia, webMD and yahoo answers, I decided that I must have had a virus and just had to wait it out. Thank God Jessica convinced me to take the Cipro yesterday.

Meanwhile, I was taking Benadryl to help me sleep, since I was having trouble falling asleep, and due to the bacteria and/or benadryl, I had a terrible side effect: pretty intense restlessness!

This meant that while I was dead tired, I couldn't stop moving. At once point I was jumping up and down trying to get this "energy" out of me, despite the fact that all I wanted to do was sleep for 2 days. It was a terrible feeling. So, go easy on the benadryl.

Now that I'm feeling better, I'm getting stuff done: bought my ticket to come home, gave the cat a bath, did laundry. And now I'm going to try to go for a walk, pick up a check, and study for the GREs - which are rapidly approaching!!

I did lost practically an entire week of research, so I have lots of catching up to do. And it starts right now.