An Interesting Week

Though perhaps interesting being the wrong word. I should probably start by telling you i have Malaria, it's a relatively minor case, now i have the correct drugs i should be back to normal in a couple of days if I'm lucky. The previous three nights i haven't been sleeping, and was getting really tired in the evenings, i thought nothing of it, perhaps just dehydration... Then a fever definitely kicked in, feeling REALLY hot one second then REALLY cold the next, and when i was cold i knew i was actually hot because i was sweating like there was no tomorrow. Yesterday i got the jeep to come and collect me to take me to hospital to get the checks done, jeep organised around 1, so i got to the hospital for just before 8. However, there was a power cut, great timing, so we had to go and find another dispensary to do the check. They diagnosed me with malaria, they found two parasites in the small drop of blood they drew, it's a little weird to think there's loads of things swimming through my blood right now. The pain killers i brought out here have been keeping me going, and i got my first nights sleep last night, though a little int erupted, i woke up at 2 in the morning violently shaking, so i took some water and it died down after 20 minutes. Same happened again at 7, i think the drugs i am using are very dehydrating. It's nothing anyone has to worry too much about, like i said, i should be OK in a couple of days, just right now my body feels really really weak, huge headache (worse than any hangover) random pains round my body, and continuously feeling too hot or too cold. I just feel like i want to sleep all the time, but i know that if i keep myself up and about (not too much) it keep my mind off it. Hence why i pushed myself to come log on. Anyway, enough about that, I'm fine otherwise!

On different notes, a lot more making and moving bricks this week. On wildlife front, i found my first scorpion this week (in the sleeping tent too,) diddly little thing though, and we saw a shit load of Meer cats (excuse the language, i don't know the "herd" word that you'd use for them, so the Irish girls said the correct term was "shit load")

Mvae group came to Mghumbu again, i build i huge fire to honour the evening with, but i was not there to enjoy it as i had to get back to Singida town. It really puts it into prospective, i felt like hell, but i knew i was at the very least three hours away from any real medical advise, and knowing the delays that occur here, it would be a while to get a jeep to come, as you could see from above, the jeep took seven hours from leaving Singida town to get me to the Hospital, but then again, it would probably take that long waiting in A&E back at home through you're local NHS hospital, HA.

We plan to sleep on the top of these huge rocks near us this week (if I'm well) they're call Delalu, cool name hey. So we would see a great sun rise and set over the area we live in. Also, last week in camp, so it's going to be a sad one! Many party's, will try to get involved as much as i can, and by Friday, many many tears! I'm going to miss this place so much, i really love it here!

Anyway, i need to go now, feeling pretty crap again, so going to try walk it off, or sleep, though the latter wont work, so I'll walk.