Hand, Foot, and Mouth

Sorry I haven't updated in a while. The past few weeks I really haven't been feeling well. At first I freaked out and thought maybe I had malaria. Then I got rational and realized that I was probably very anemic. I've been on a frantic search for foods high in iron and B12 and bought some mega vitamins, ironically named Stresstabs. haha I don't know, it made me laugh. hahaha Then last week...

My class was hit with Hand, foot, and mouth. I've had to deal with this before in the US at a daycare I worked at. We had to close for a week and do some super duper cleaning. In Thailand though, it's still a new thing and a very big deal. A very big deal for CHILDREN. haha So anyways, we found out a couple of the kids in my class had it and then we had to shut down the entire preschool for a day to clean and then the health people had to come in the next day to inspect. We thought we had gotten all of it. Then a couple days later, another student was found with it. This time it was a sibling of one of the students in my class that we thought didn't have it. So then the school just had to send home letters telling everyone that we had all been exposed and there isn't a lot we can do.

So normally this disease is for kids. Unfortunately for me, I catch everything. Everything. The past couple days I've been really achy and then I woke up this morning feeling absolutely horrible. Right after school I made my first trip to the hospital here and found out that I had a fever and every symptom of adult hand, foot, and mouth. Yay for me.

It's not so bad for adults. We don't even get a rash which is what the disease is named for. I just have a fever and a headache and am tired. I'm mostly just annoyed. haha