sick

Well it is almost 11:00 pm and Dennis and I just came home.  There is a virus going around here at the CCM and it is not pretty.  He has seen about 20+ missionaries today and Elder Gill has seen about 6.  Dennis is the primary doctor right now so he is taking the calls and Elder Gill just sees what Dennis can't.  Someone of the 100 North Americans who came in last Wednesday may be the culprit or it is just  a virus that we don't know where it came from but it seems to be spreading fast.  We are making house calls using the golf cart because  we seem to go from house to house.  We were at one house and we get a call from reception at 10:15 at night that someone else is too sick to walk to the clinic so we go and visit them.  At one point Dr Gill was seeing a sister at her house and Dennis was getting a call to go see another missionary but at the same time he was seeing missionaries in the clinic one right after another, plus a couple of missionaries walked into the clinic and said an elder in their district was laying on the floor shaking from chills and fever in his class room and could we go and see him.  They all seem to have raised temperatures some as high as 104, vomiting (one sister threw up on cue as we were making a house call) and they have diarrhea plus just plain head aches and body aches. I hope we get some sleep tonight.  The President has asked that we limit our handshaking if we are sick and everyone else please wash there hands often.  I hope my spinach smoothies and efforts to eat healthy will give me some ability to face this virus.

There was no celebrating of the 24th of July here although we did go out for a P-day to Pachuca on the 25th.  I'm counting that as our celebration.