SPEND 4 DAYS IN THIRD WORLD COUNTRY HOSPITAL......CHECK

  THIS IS NOT THE TYPE OF EMAIL THAT YOU LIKE TO RECEIVE FROM YOUR MISSIONARY.  HE NEVER ANSWERED THE QUESTION ON WHETHER OR NOT THE TEST CAME BACK POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE.

"kiss from a rose" - Seal

I'm terribly sorry you never got the Walung email. I resent it. In the meantime, I'm going to let you all know about my experience with a hospital in a 3rd world country.

After monday night, I only seemed to get worse. Tuesday morning I felt alright, and even ate some toast, eggs, and bacon. Then I starting cramping throughout my whole body, sweating, felt extremely light headed, and so on. President had suggested we go to the hospital and get them to take a blood sample to test for Dengue fever (I don't know how to spell it) I ended up getting admitted because no on has a clue here.  I was given a sodium chloride IV and a nice rock to lay on for the next 4 days. The hospital here.....is a bed. you bring everything else, toilet paper, water, pillows, bed sheets, a fan (you'll want a fan) and so on. I don't even want to describe this place and the bathroom shall never be mentioned again. But there I lay. At first in a room with 5 other sick people and their families. (families watch over the sick because the nurses don't) and the rooms aren't that big. They soon moved me to another room with one other guy and his wife. This guy shook the walls when he snored, but he was leaving the next day so that worked out. Elder Coffey ended up getting admitted into the same room as I for dehydration, which meant that every other missionary had to spend the night on mats on the ground. It was a very long, 4 days. On one particular night in which I was feeling extra loopy, and sick I began singing kiss from a rose by seal. My IV probably fell out 4 times in total and I don't want to know how many airbubbles got into to my bloodstream due to their lack of competance. On one of the nights I changed the IV so it would drip super fast and hurried up and finished the bag and locked it off before I went to sleep. I also gladly took that tube out when they shook their shoulders to answer my question of if I needed it or not.   The whole experience can now be checked off my bucket list though I am not glad to say I have done so. I was so glad to eat food again upon getting out becuase I refused to eat the boiled chunk of skipjack tuna  or turkey tail they served every meal. The good news is I'm all better now. The other news is, I'm pretty sure I'm being transfererred from Kosrae this week. Should be interesting. Much Love

-Elder Lapeyrouse