The Saga Continues...to the end

I had dengue! I found this out after going to the doctor again yesterday. I woke up in the morning with weird blotches on my legs, and after they didn't fade or go away by lunch, I texted Maria, our nurse. She suggested I go back to the doctor. So I did.

I took a taxi all by myself, gave the directions to the office, waited for the doctor, and had a visit. He took my temperature, looked at my limbs, felt around a bit, and said it was the dengue leaving. He told me not to scratch (it's itchy), and keep drinking a lot.

Praise God! I had been feeling nervous, but I was glad to pay the doctor just to tell me I was getting better. :) It feels like quite the health saga, just emotionally. I was feeling afraid of what would happen, getting better or worse. I'm so thankful that my experience with dengue was minor, and that I'm getting better now! See, they call dengue the breakbone fever because it is very painful, and most people who have had it have been in the hospital with it. I only had sore muscles and a high fever one day!

And I'm better just in time because today begins our fall break! Tomorrow we are going to the beach, and we're going to spend the night there. On Sunday, the Hannahs, their boyfriends, and I will go to Managua. The boys go back to Dordt, and we chicas embark on an adventure to Ometepe, an island in Lake Nicaragua. Then Thursday we'll go to San Juan del Sur to meet up with the guys at a beach house and finish up the week there.

It will be exciting. We still have to plan the trip - good thing it's Nicaragua! :)