August 11th, 2011 - Sickness Strikes!

It was a little sad to see Joy leave this morning, since I had worked so closely with her at the little girls’ house, but we all sent her our love and saw her off before heading to our respective circles to begin the day.

Kari (the new volunteer that will be helping me with the little girls’ house) was at circle and we chatted as we washed dishes.  She seems very quiet, and most likely it’s because she’s new…but I reassured her that as she becomes more familiar with things around here, she’ll have more than enough to do. 

When I got back to our volunteer house, Jacki and I began painting.  We began with one of the back
bedrooms and she took care of the roller brush while I did the detail painting around doors and windows and then along the baseboards and corners.  We worked together for almost 3 hours until I
had to go back to the little girls’ house for lunch.  At lunch I asked Kari to take my afternoon shift at the clinic so that I could spend the afternoon painting.  I did more small detail painting while Daysha
and Jacki worked on a 2^nd coat of paint in the room that we had started and then began painting the next bedroom across the hall.  I worked straight through until it was time to head to the little girls’ house for their night time bath.  After bathing the girls, I headed back home to eat and then paint some more…and THEN it hit – getting sick!  I have never before gotten so sick while down here and I felt terrible that I had to ask Julie to take the overnight shift at the clinic for me, but I felt a small fever coming on as well as…we’ll just say “other symptoms” that I knew I wouldn’t be effective in the clinic and it would probably be better for the 2 that were spending the night if I didn’t share my
illness with them.

 

I’m heading to bed now, feeling horrible and hoping that tomorrow will be a new and better day!