As a continuation from yesterday I woke up at 5:30 AM and headed
to the hospital (arriving at like 5:50 AM). Dan was asleep when I got there and
woke up and we talked for a couple of minutes. He said he wasn’t really feeling
any better, but also that they had already performed the test and 8 o’clock the
doctor would be there. So I asked if I could head back to the hostel to grab a
half hour more of sleep and left. I was back at the hospital at like 7:45 AM
with Matt, but the doctor never showed up (or at least not until much later and
never really said anything about Dan except that he has to stay at the hospital
for several more days (it was possible that Dan could return home, but that’s
not happening. Anyways so we stayed for a while until like 9 ish when Sol
showed up to watch Dan and Matt and I headed back to get some breakfast
(nacatamal and bread and milk) while she stayed there. After that Matt packed
up and I showed him the bus station (good idea to get the heck out of San
Carlos while possible) and I grabbed my gear for the hospital and headed there
after recharging my phone (so now I can finally send messages and call folks if
I need to). Anyways since then I’ve been chilling at the hospital and writing.
Dang it’s been quite the weekend. Since leaving for the Castillo it basically
was anything but what we expected. Dan having Dengue is bad (the symptoms just
showed up yesterday, which means that he was probably bitten back on Wednesday
or so and I am hoping that I wasn’t during that time, although we’ll see).
Right now it’s 12 PM and the main doctor has still not really shown up that was
supposed to show up at 10 AM, but I’ve been here since like 10:30 AM. All of
the techs here are trying to help out as much as possible (Popo was here early
this morning and turned the AC off as it was really flippin’ cold in the ER and
Marlon gave Dan some powerade for later and Flaco hopes Dan feels better (as
everyone does)). The worst part about all of this is that there’s basically
nothing more we can do except wait. Dengue is one of those where the patient
has to wait it out. It’s also not contagious through breathing etc (only
through a mosquito bite (so back the futz off, stupid ‘sqeeters)). Hope Dan
gets feeling better soon.
The next couple of
hours passed more or less the same (with me just chilling at the hospital and
Dan occasionally getting some sleep. I had to answer a few more calls from
people (ISOS and Ace and Dan’s mother, but it was fine). I pretty much chilled
at the hospital all day until like 7:15 PM when Kevin arrived (despite for
taking a 40 minute lunch to grab some other things from home). Dan was also
moved to a more secluded room with AC and 4 beds all covered with mosquito
nets. This seems to be a Dengue room as at least 2 of the other guys in there
also have Dengue. Kevin and I tried to go back and check on him, but we
couldn’t as it was late and the room was all dark. We’ll be heading there early
tomorrow morning.
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