April 6th and 7th

The past two days have been interesting...

I think that I got food poisoning when I was in Milan. All that I had to eat the short while that I was in Milan was a shell-fish pasta dish.

I felt sick from 8 o'clock on, but it felt like the normal acid reflux response to things, so I didn't pay it any attention. at 2AM on the 6th I woke up and was violently ill. I will leave the details to your imagination, but let's just say that the pasta dish tasted better on the way down...

I woke up every half hour feeling even worse than I did the previous time that I was awakened. I had aches and pains unlike any other. I was grateful when the sun came up so that I could actually feel like I wasn't waking everybody up.

This continued, so I made an appointment at the local doctor's office which is conveniently located right down the street. It was all I could do to mosey my way over there, so when I arrived and she told me that I needed my insurance card, it was all I could do to walk back to DCT to retrieve the card. I mustered up the energy and made my way back to DCT and then to the doctor's office.

I told him my symptoms and he gave me some interesting medicine that I would rather not go into detail about. He also attempted to jab me with a needle, but was unsuccessful like most doctors are when in search of my non-existent veins. I usually get the comment that I would be a bad drug addict, but the language barrier prevented him from making such a comment.

I watched movies for the rest of the day until I decided to change positions and lounge out on the balcony where the sun was beating down on me like I was the only person in sight. I put on a CD entitled "Nature's Healing" and took deep breaths of the fresh mountain air. I finally ate some bread around dinner time which was about all that my stomach could handle.

The sunset was beautiful. I took a photo-documentary for those of you who are interested...I will post them soon.

This morning I woke up and was feeling a little bit better, but not like myself. We had class and then a long break after lunch. I sun bathed with my roommates for three hours. It felt amazing, again, like I was the only one the sun was looking at! I got a pretty nice tan, too.

After our second class was dinner. That pretty much consisted of bread and tuna fish (like lunch). Following dinner, I took a walk to the beach which was beautiful! The sun setting in the mountain, the fresh mountain air, the smell of a nearby campfire...even the horse poop was a strange delight.

Dee's birthday is tomorrow, so we are all going to go to Rutli (the local Bar) but I am not going to drink for a while to see if my stomach feels any better, so I will bring Banana Grams, stay and celebrate until the smoke consumes my soul at which point I will have to excuse myself from the festivities.

=)