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So I have just recovered from being sick once again.  At this point its become a normal thing.  Every week or so… slam… sick again.  It is getting better though, I think my resistance is building up.  This time was for only about a day and a half.  I wasn`t feeling too bad, but then something about vomiting during my walk to work clued me into the fact that I was probably a bit under the weather again.  I have traced this time to a glass of tainted lemonade.  We were laying down the concrete floor for a house at work in the blazing sun and the mother came out with a nice cold glass of limonada peligrosa.  It is already somewhat difficult to refuse a genuine gift from the families but is even more difficult when you are suffering from boarderline heat stroke.  While fully aware that I was probably venturing into dangerous territory, I put aside my doubts about the particulate matter and ice cubes (which had a very low chance of being purified water) in the lemodade and drank it down.  Lesson learned.  I`ll be bringing a water bottle to work from now on…

I`m hoping that this is going to be the last time.  We will see.

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So I managed to get sick… again. There seems to be some sort of wave of sickness that has traveled through Stella`s house. Karla, Jaime, Terry (new student), and myself were all sick more or less within one week of eachother. At this point I was kind of tired and bored of spending all of my time in the bathroom, so I decided to get an examine de heces. The lab found nothing… which I guess is good news. Not sure what I did or ate, but there was something that was making me sick.

Anyways, I have since recovered and now feeling more or less normal (regular). Over the past 2-3 weeks I have been working hard on building up some sort of a resistance to whatever it is that has something against me.

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So after 3.5 months of being in Guatemala, it finally caught up with me.  I finally got sick.  Really sick.  It started feeling it at Marty`s after the Escipulas trip.  I have no idea about what I ate or what I did wrong, but I did not feel good.

Quit early on finishing my dinner and made my way up to bed.  I then proceeded to have the chills.  I used 2 blankets.  Tried to go to sleep.  Long shirt.  Tried to go to sleep again.  Sweatshirt.  Repeat.  Socks.  Repeat.  Jeans.  Repeat.  I was shivering in bed, but I finally fell asleep.  Then I woke up (on fire).  This is when I started thinking about the porcina virus… late at night with a fever.

Since Marty and Carlos were taking a trip to the US, we left really early in the morning.  I took the camioneta home.  I was clenching my teeth and forcing my eyes shut the whole way.  I got to Stella`s and slept.  All day and all night (with brief periods of drinking water and eating tiny amounts of food).  Tha night, while I was eating my tiny dinner in my half asleep dazed state, Karla suggested a solution… she handed me a cork.

We went out and got an antibiotic that night to remedy the problem.  The antiobiotic did the trick and I felt better after only 2.5 days of being sick  (no cork necessary).