Second day of the camp, we had a morning run, and I wasn’t able to catch up with them. I was with no run for so many years, that a short jog made me catch my breath. At the church the same morning, I played skip rope with the kids. I was able to make a lot of skips. But that’s the time I felt my right knee and right foot a bit sore. I stopped and everything went on.

Evening, still at the church, finishing some materials that will be used in tomorrows awarding ceremony (kids already left for home, it was Saturday), I felt pain on my right knee and right ankle. But I was so tired I didn’t mind it. Sunday morning came and we did the awarding during the church service. Afternoon,me and my wife took a nap. Upon waking up, that’s the time I felt more pain, not on my right side, but on my left foot. I thought It was just because of the skip rope. Monday, around 3 am, I was awaken by a tremendous pain on my left foot. It was so painful that I am actually growling (that woke up my wife). The last time I felt that pain, also on the same foot, was when I worked (just for one day) on a chiken meat processing plant (I was assigned to the freezer, pushing stacks of cart filled with chicken meat). It took me almost an hour before I was able to sleep again (my lack of sleep due to my work might have overcome that pain). At around 7 am, I woke up again, growling in pain. I tried to stand but I can’t stand the pain on my left foot once I press it on the floor. I walk skipping and using only the toe on my left foot.

The whole day passed with the same pain. I took some pain reliever (that relieved “some” of the pain) but its effect was short. I wasn’t able to go to work that night due to the pain and the fact that I can’t walk. The pain was persistent for two days. By tuesday morning, the pain subsides but I can’t still walk. I was absent for three days at work.

I went to the doctor and the suspect was (mild) gouty arthritis. I am overweight by almost 30 kls. My blood pressure was high (140 / 100). My uric acid is almost above normal. I was told to go on diet.

Gouty arthritis refers to a form of arthritis caused by deposits of needle-like crystals of uric acid.

I am only 25 years old and I already feel a lot of pain in my body. I should have taken care of my health before it was already hard to control.

The pain on my foot had already subsided, but there are still stings on both of them, maybe due to the gout.

Day after that, I felt worse. Friday, May 30, I went to the doctor for check up. As laboratory results came out, I was diagnosed to have Urinary Track Infection and very low blood platelet count. The doctor advised me to return the following day for another blood test. If my platelet count would drop, I would be confined for dengue. That evening, since I feel very week for not eating for 3 days, I decided to go to the hospital for confinement. We came to the hospital, they checked my blood and admitted me for possible dengue. The following day, it was confirmed that I have dengue.

I was confined until June 4. Eating just very little (almost nothing except water I drink and IV fluids running in my arteries.

I missed half of my training, and I don’t know what awaits me when I return to work..

Anyway, I am out of the hospital now. And I thank God for the healing. I also thank God for my wife who stayed beside me during those times I am very weak physically and during my hospital days.

I am still feeling weak, I lost almost 16 kilos in one week. But God is renewing my strength.

Soli Deo Gloria.

Please pray for my health. I am really having a hard time with this cough.  It’s been 5 weeks now.

As I’ve said in my last post, I became sick. I was coughing throughout my shift. And it really annoys me. My throat sucks and my chest is in pain.

So, after two weeks of cough, I went to the Doctor, and I took a chest x-ray and CBC test. My lungs are fine but as the CBC result says, I have a high infection (due to cough). The first batch of antibiotics didn’t do any good. So, earlier this day, I was given a prescription of another set of (higher dose) antibiotics.

My medical certificate also states that I should have 3 days of bed rest (due to high infection). I already made 2 absences and I think I won’t do it again. I am feeling better (though not really that much ‘better’).

I’ll start taking the meds tomorrow. But I’ll be drinking a lot of water today. This would make me go to have a bladder break often.

Well, I’m back, at least.

Soli Deo Gloria.