Paranoid and Under-slept

August 6, 2006

Well my hands and feet are still in the healing process! It has been a long time and 8 doctors appointment to date. August 6^th will make it appointment # 9! My hands are almost back to normal but my feet are sore and peeling. I have been taking better care of my hands and sort of neglected my feet. It seems that now I am paying for that. So, all in all I have been diagnosed with eczema. The good news is that it is not causing me to miss time from Bal Mandir. I am grateful for that. I was getting really frustrated in the beginning when the whole scabies ordeal was going on. The doctor was telling me to stay away from the orphanage until it got better and it was only getting worse! The kids are so cute. I love seeing them every morning – they are always so excited to see me. It is the sweetest thing ever. So, again, about my hands and feet – they have never fully recovered since I was told I had scabies 11 days after arrived here! It has been a long go of it! I think that the peeling and drying out is due to a reaction I am having to the treatment for the scabies. I think it dries your skin out – but hey, who am I to say. It’s all a bit too weird for me! I rarely visit the doctor in Canada so I will definitely never forget this crazy experience. I am happy enough though with the dryness. I would rather deal with fry skin then tiny mites laying eggs wherever they want! I’m not sure if I mentioned to you – but close to 2 weeks ago I was finding these strange bugs in my bed. These I decided were bed bugs. I came to this conclusion because I have my little Asia and Health guidebook here with me. And the picture of the bed bugs in the book match exactly to what I was finding. AND – if your wondering how I found them because they only come out in the pitch dark, I will tell you! Two nights in a row I was up really late on the Internet and the power went out because of thunder and lightening. So, like you would, I went running into my room each time as fast as possible to go to sleep and pretend that I was not scared at all! But the power switched back and woke me up on both nights. This when I found the dirty little creatures crawling on my sheets. I only found one each time. But I was still totally grossed out. The first night I didn’t think anything of it but the second night led to my investigation! The second episode happened at about 3am in the morning. I stayed up that entire night. I came out on the Internet and searched about bed bugs and how to get rid of them. Call me crazy if you like but there was no way I was getting back in bed with them! So, quite quickly I began to become extremely paranoid and under-slept. DC changed my room for me so I have no longer been sleeping in the other one. I was still nervous in there. I would go to bed then jump up like 20 minutes later and switch the light on trying to see if there were bugs in that room. This is where the paranoia comes in! HA I had quite a few nites like that. I can't lie. Anyways, all has been good for the past week. I get sleep now and I’m not too nervous about bed bugs anymore. The scabies seems to be fully gone and hopefully never to return! And I have made my mind up that I can deal with bed bugs if they come back even though I pray they will not bother me again! However, you never know because clearly there is no shortage of insects around here!