Malawi Andy

Monday, October 10, 2005

Full Recovery

Gary has fully recovered from his bout with malaria. (Wait a second, didn't he already recover, like, two weeks ago)  We thought that the first case of malaria in the community was extremely mild and uninteresting but as it turns out...we were wrong.  About a week after he was diagnosed, Gary felt fully recovered and went back to work in the school.  He felt fine for the whole week and didn't have any problems until Friday when the symptoms returned with avengeance.  We were gettting ready to go on the field trip for the college and Gary was curled up on the couch with no intention of moving.  He later went to the doctor a found out the malaria was still there and got some stronger medicine to take care of it.  The medicine caused his ears to ring so he couldn't hear anything and at night he had some mild hallucinations.  People talking in his head and such.  After about a week of not much more than sleeping all day, he is finally returning to full health.