A tropical disease? How very chic! Well yes, for a week Emily has felt bad, but it was only the first three days that she felt in her body, fever, headache. But the headache has been lingering and then two days ago her skin started itching. Hospital test showed today that she had the dengue fever. She was probably infected in La Guardia, where there were a lot of mosquitoes. Luckily, we have had such a comfortable living since coming to Terrazas de Pampatar, so the rest made the sickness strike her comparably mildly. If you want to know how terrible dengue fever can be, check in at the blog of Charles (the american bloke we met in Trinidad and again in Cumaná later). His girlfriend Amber was struck by dengue as they ventured down to Angel Falls (worlds highest waterfall, almost 1 km) in the jungle.
http://charlesthelucky.blogspot.com/2007/11/always-talk-to-brazilian-strangers.html
Anyway, Emily is almost well now, but since her blood value has fallen, she needs to rest and eat nutricious food for some days. That will take care of the remaining headache and fatigue. And there are almost no mosqitoes where we live now.
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Hi Emily been following your trip did not notice that i could comment till today must the Swedish hope you recover and that the disease is not one of the recurring ones. Nice to see photos of the girls
lots of love to all. Patricia M. Kenya
Emily! Krya på dig! Hoppas du redan mår bättre! Stor kram från Matilda
Hej allihopa! Instämmer i Matildas Krya-på-dig-hälsning och hoppas att era dagar flyter på bra i det soliga landet! Vackra bilder ni skickar!!
Kram från Ingrid
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