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After a long delay of no posts on my blog, some people started wondering if I never came back from Vietnam. Well, I did come back, but I got quite sick after my last post in Vietnam. I thought I was all over my flu, but a few days later my coughing got worse and it turned out that I had "walking pneumonia". Regular pneumonia can be life threatening, especially for older people. The version I had is called 'walking' because you are usually not sick enough to end up in the hospital, but still quite miserable. I had the great fortune of having Ava Avalos in our group, who is a doctor from LA working in Botswana. She took care of me in a wonderful way. I spend most of my time after that in bed, and around the hotel. But I was very well taken care off, people would stop by and bring me food, water, fruit and all kind of funky medication. Ava would tell me what medication was OK. After I got home I spend about 1 week at home, resting and then started working 50%. It took a long time, almost 2 months, for me to get back to full strength. I'm still glad that I went to Vietnam, even though I spend a lot of time in bed there.
posted by Christian on Friday, July 08, 2005, 0 comments