Saturday, September 13, 2008

Malaria (IN ITALIAN: bad air)

Hello all,

I'm back in Lusaka and glad to be returning to homestay. While at the provincial house I became violently ill and have been trying to recover ever since. While Zambia's been quite nice to me, malaria hasn't! But thankfully the Peace Corps gave me some pretty powerfully drugs, so the gruesome facts of the illness have been taken care of. Yet the achiness, the lethargy, and the inability to eat anything lingers. Thankfully though, I came down with it at the Peace Corps Provincal house, so I spent the brunt of the malality in front of a VCR watching video while downing oral rehydration salts. In other news, I have my new address! Its:

P.O. box 530376
Lundazi, Africa

So feel free to send letters (PLEASE!!!). Anyways keep up with the comments, they're lots of help! Hope all is well in the States!

--Ryan

3 comments:

GSXR6Dude said...

Keating! Damn dude. That is some rough stuff! You always seem to have a pretty good attitude about things thrown your way. Glad to hear youre getting better. Ill be sure to send you snail mail sometime soon. Wish you were here to see the new house! It is amazing!

-Mike Veliz

Chelsea Keating said...

HAPPPPPPY BIIIIIRRRRRRRRRTTTTTTTTHHHHHHHHAAAAAYYYYYY!!

i love you! and you will beat this malaria!!!

Jess said...

hey hey happy belated :) i hope you had a great birthday!! i'm thinking i'll have a beer tonight in celebration of the day after your day of birth.. and i'm sorry you got so sick! if you were here i'd be making some chick soup for ya with saltine crackers.

so i'm trying to find a decently priced road bike so lee and i can trek the outskirts of davis.. when you come back we're gonna be like lance armstrong x2.. and then every day will be cycle sunday!!

feel better soon!!! miss you ryan! and happy birthday again :)

jess