I've been Ill

Now, I'll spare you the nasty details of my illness, but let's just say it has been rather messy.

Yesterday I went into work with a banging headache, but I assumed it would clear up, by the time I got home I simply wanted to sleep and had no interest in eating anything.  I realised of course at this point that something was wrong, but I thought if I could just have a really long sleep it would clear up...I was wrong.

I got in a fair amount of sleep but I was forced awake fairly frequently during the night.  So by the time morning rolled around, I looked pretty rough and I was in fair disarray.  I realised iI would not beable to work today, so I tried rather unsuccessfully to contact the school and my co-teacher, but in the end I finally got through and was told I could take the day off...meh.  Anyway that only led to greater difficulties, one of the staff members came over to help me get some medicine.  Great, I though, oh wait, they someone that speaks no English...So for the next half an hour I was forced to wander around the town looking for a doctors, which turned out to be full, oh and lacked English speakers.  So I just used my handbook to get him to take me to a pharmacy to get me some pills.

This appeared to work and I was quite satisfied as well as fairly desparate to get back home.  However after succeeding to get the pills I realised I had no idea how to take them, ie how many and how often.  The fella I was with did his best as did I, but there was too much of a gap.  So I just did a lot of nodding and when he was gone, I just sat there looking at them.  I thought I could find them on the internet and hopefully work out if I had the right stuff and how to take them, no luck.

In the end I went to another Westerner's place and asked him if he could help.  He did, he went back to the pharmacy and used his slightly more advanced English skills to ask them and finally I had instructions.  Anyway, they appear to be taking some effect at least, but I don't know how I'll feel tomorrow.  I'll just have to see.

Oh, but there was one other thing, the prinicpal, vice-principal and some of the head administrators came over to see me today because they had heard I was ill.  At first I thought they may be checking up on me, but quickly I realised they were simply just concerned for me.  It was only a flying visit because, really I have a tiny, messy place and we have no way of talking to one another.

Well as I have said before, we'll see how I feel.