Another blood test at Dr. Nyombi's yesterday confirmed I have malaria. SERIOUSLY. Yeah it's so weird. But I'm okay. I am just exhausted.
I FORGOT TO TELL SOMETHING AWESOME ABOUT LAST WEEK...and kinda sick. So Ryan had this like mosquito bite looking thing on his arm but it started hurting, so he started to pop it like a zit and guess what came out (after some pain and quite a few minutes of squeezing)? A WORM. I know. That's when I was like...oh my gosh. I'm in africa. This is real. Hahahha. But he's totally fine. I just heard that we all have to take "de-worming medicine" when we get home just to make SURE we don't have worms. SICK. The worm was so gross. I saw it. He put it on a napkin and I saw it. Legit. Sick.
Also, today I saw a chicken be killed. NOt only killed but violently killed. Kat and Drew bought some chickens to chop their heads off because it was their goal before they left Africa (they are leaving tonight). So they took each chicken and laid it on a brick (alive at this point), tied it around the neck so it wouldn't leave the brick, and...WHAM. Blood everywhere...but the chicken didn't move....for about 5 seconds...then it starts going CRAZY! Like all over the place, flapping its wings, squirting blood everywhere. Then it would almost die....freak out again....and evnentually die. That happened both times. Yum, huh? Yep. That was my morning.
I don't have anything else to say except thank you for your love and support and prayers. I know so many of you have been keeping me in your prayers all the time, and I can feel it. Thank you so much. I have never experienced this kind of homesickness...it's at a different depth than any homesickness I have ever felt, yet I am so happy that I'm here. Anyways, thank you! I have the best friends and family in the whole world...seriously! So many of the other volunteers here had to come without any familial support and very few friends support, but I am so blessed. I have loved ones who really love me and care about me and support me in every dream I have. So thank you SO MUCH. I love you all, really and truly!
Love, Dani Diz
Just a side-note...wow...that is the most random blog I think I have ever written. Goes from malaria to worms to blood squirting to prayers....best. blog. ever. hahahha.
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Hey Dani! That is so crazy you have malaria and are experiencing all that you are! I agree with you that everyone needs to experience something like that at one point in life.. I spent 6 months in Russia, and had some pretty awesome experiences there. Good luck and have the time of your life!
ReplyDeletelove your cuz, Jenny Peterson Jensen
All of a sudden I'm craving chicken.
ReplyDeletesorry that i haven't written in a while! please don't tell me that the souvenirs that you got us are diseases.........but if they are i totally call malaria!!!!! i'm so glad that you are having a good experience and that you are still alive!!!! all of the girls in our ward say "WE LOVE YOU DANI!!!!!!" we all miss you but i miss you the most! oh yeah! i got you the best welcome home present the universe has ever seen! be excited! love you like the fat kid loves cake!!!
ReplyDeleteAww jessi poo! Did you get my text? I sent you one! They are not quite diseases. But you might get a disease because you will be so excited when I give it to you. And you are just so cute. I talk about you all the time to everyone here. I brag about you constantly...seriously. Everyone knows about you and gabi and I've showed people pictures like dozens of times. And hey...if the young women want me to talk about my experience when I get home, tell them I could do it anytime between the 30th of July and the 13th of August...maybe for mutual or something you guys could write letters to a school here. Or make hygeine kits...or seomthing cute like that. BE THERE when mom and dad call me tomorrow mornign, okay? I LOOOOVE YOU! And Jenny! You are awesome! Thanks for your sweet note! And bonnie...I just peed my pants.
ReplyDeleteOkay, I just want anyone who reads Dani's blog to know that YES SHE DID GET ALL HER VACCINATIONS BEFORE SHE LEFT. I think Child welfare is going to arrest me for neglect. Dani this dream of yours has stretched me to the limit in wanting to fly over there and bring you home where you are safe from Typhoid, Malaria and worms that embed themselves in your body, and the list goes on. However, I know this experience has been life changing and I'm so thrilled you had the opportunity to do it. Not to mention your courage, and desire to serve others. You make a mother proud. We love you dearly and you are in my constant prayers and thoughts. Please try to stay well from here on out.
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