Saturday, April 3, 2010

The rural girl has a rural disease

Tick-bite fever! (aka Lyme disease)

The symptoms are: killer headaches, general malaise, a bite with a black head and swollen lymph nodes near the bite site. In reality, its a lot worse than it sounds. It especially didn't help that I was taking expired brufen - no wonder the bite and lymph node swelling were taking forever to clear up.

But there are definite advantages to being here when you are sick: living with a doctor and "pharmacist" and having a large supply of drugs (i.e. hospital pharmacy) at your disposal. Liz diagnosed me on monday morning while we were eating breakfast half asleep. At least i provided the morning's entertainment. Kayleigh was laughing at Liz for getting so excited.

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  1. :D i just became the first follower of your blog. we are so cool!

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