I had a bit of a funny day today. I woke up at about 7am, as my neighbor was chatting with himself about a computer program that we use for our translation work. Yes, we hear everything through the screens and open windows. Privacy? What's that?
At 7am, though, I was feeling the tinges of a super headache coming on. But my pain-killers have already been eaten by various people on the compound (including myself, of course). I kept thinking that I must stop at the pharmacy and pick some up one of these days... but I never did. It's not like it's expensive stuff - a box of 20 tablets of paracetamol (kinda like Tylenol) costs about $0.50! Must be the cheapest thing to buy in this city, I tell you.
Anyways, I didn't have any in the house, so at 7am, I thought I should just go to back to sleep. However, when I woke up again at about 8am, my head was hurting so badly that it was causing me to feel quite nauseous. A good man on the compound offered to run to the corner pharmacy and get me some pain-killers, which was really very kind of him. Also, I wasn't able to call Wes and wake him up with the news that I had a headache... because obviously, he was already awake at 7am!
All I could do was pop a few pain-killers and try to eat a bit of yogurt for breakfast. It all just seemed to make me feel worse, so I eventually just put myself back to bed! The young woman who cleans our house, plus her little baby, were cleaning around me, and putting stuff in my room... and I was completely out cold. I just slept like a log, for about an hour and a half!
When I woke up, I was still pretty groggy - you know that feeling you get when you can hardly lift your limbs? But my headache was pretty much gone! And I was starting to get hungry, so I had a cup of tea and a few biscuits, and I was good to go back to the office! I'm so thankful that I've generally been very healthy here. It's a rare day when I "call in" sick to the office.
So I don't know what was causing the headache - maybe I actually did get rather dehydrated last night! Maybe there's a change in the weather coming - though nothing changed today. It was just plain hot again. Maybe tonight it will rain?! Maybe I need to drink another litre of water before bed tonight so we don't have a repeat performance tomorrow.
I didn't want to "over-do" it today, though (on the advice of Annamarie!), so I took off a bit early from the office and started sewing some curtains for the office! I'll take a photo of them tomorrow and post them. But they're really quite lovely, if I do say so myself! I just love all the patterns and colours in the fabrics here. I just can't get enough of them.
As I was sewing, a friend called me up and asked if I wanted to go walking with her at the UN compound. So I dropped everything, put on a t-shirt and baseball cap and off I went to sweat with my friend. I was already a bit drippy from the effort of sewing the curtains... which tells you a bit about how hot it was today! But in the end, I had a really nice walk with my friend. It just felt good to get out and about a bit, even though it was a rather sweaty affair. Friends are good to have. Especially friends who motivate me to get some exercize, and will love me through the sweat :)
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