dengue fever

I’ve been told this many times, and always suspected it to be true, but the life of a missionary is very difficult. I’m starting to grasp it in a few ways myself. The past few days I have felt some pretty extreme bloating. My stomach was ballooning out and I could not go number 2 for the life of me. It all came to a pinnacle last night when I had diarrhea for the majority of the night. I apologize if this is too graphic, I had to go in such loose volume that it eventually came out as a clear liquid and barely carried a smell with it. It left me drained physically and emotionally. This morning I woke up utterly drained and had a deep headache behind my eyes. I found out from some Haitian friends that I have what is most likely called Dengue Fever. This is a condition that you get from mosquitoes (which I have had in abundance). I am not complaining because I am on the mend now.
What has been far more challenging and draining than the Dengue are things largely out of my control. My favorite person on the planet, Taylor my fiancé, is going through Hell on earth in Morocco. She feels isolated, lonely, physically sick, and just all around depressed. I miss her so much and that makes having amazing experiences here so hard. I want to be with her and help her and I am here helping others who I don’t really even know. It’s just interesting how everything works sometimes. She would probably be mad that I feel this way because she would want me to focus my everything on the people here rather than herself, that’s just how she is. We’ll get through it and be renewed, but it’s so easy to be overwhelmed by the present. We all know how it goes.
I do have good news though! Rodiz the preschool teacher heard some amazing news today! Her husband with Lyme’s disease was believed to need surgery on his shoulder due to a rotator cuff injury. It turns out that the pain in his shoulder is attributed to the Lyme disease and doesn’t need surgery so he will be joining us on Saturday! I am so happy for Rodiz and her children Ky, Lilliana, and Levi! This is good news for me too because I don’t have to take over the preschool class! I hope and pray this means that I can live my dream and give myself to the 5th Section (the poor rural villages). I’ll let ya know what becomes of that! Thanks for staying in tuned to what’s up in Clay’s world!!!