Motel "Sicks"

For the last couple of weeks, Adrienne’s nursing expertise, and our spare bedroom, have been working overtime with a steady flow of sick expats. Leah, our friend and fellow CITA volunteer lives with a local family and recently her little sister, Crystal, came to Kabala for a visit. After a short stay (a couple of days) in a village, they came back with Crystal experiencing some pretty intense sickness. Since our house has a toilet and an extra bed, they stayed with us for a couple of nights, until Crystal was OK again. The next night starting at around 4 AM, I had about 12 hours of the exact same thing, and Leah the following night. Two nights later, Charmaine, a short term CITA volunteer, was over with the same thing. So 4 out of the last 5 nights we have had a different person spending many unpleasant hours in our bathroom. Ugh. Good thing it was all separate nights….all are OK now, though. Amazningly, Adrienne didn’t get sick at all which leads us to believe it actually wasn’t contagious: everyone just happened to digest something that their bodies hated at almost the same time.