Coming Up for Air!

It has been a while since I have blogged! My last post was from beautiful Cozumel, and it was a great trip (for the most part).  I was joined by two yoga buddies, and my roomie from my volunteer stint in Mozambique in 2012.  How lovely it is to have a girl trip!  We did a lot of yoga with Tammy Cervantes (THE yoga guru on the island) who came to our house to teach us a workshop, two classes, and meditation.  She is also a wonderful masseuse!  It would be quite difficult to find a better teacher…she is excellent. We snorkeled, Leslie and I went diving, we had wonderful meals (another blog on that one!), and talked, talked, talked.  It was relaxing as well as fun. Well, until I came down with Dengue Fever!

Okay.  I never had the blood test, so I don’t know for sure that I had it, but I don’t know what else it could have been.  I had the symptoms, and I now fully understand why they call it “break bone fever”.  Your bones and joints hurt like bloody hell!  I had fevers over 102 degrees, and was sick, sick, sick.  I really don’t know how I made it home last Friday I was in so much pain.  The saddest thing about it:  my daughter’s boyfriend (now fiance) proposed to her last Saturday and had a little surprise get together for her…I couldn’t be there.  And yes, it just killed me.  I tried, but I couldn’t stop shaking long enough to even put on make-up.  To add insult to injury, my son and his fiance came into town for the event, and I could barely even visit with them.  It was awful.

So, I missed my daughter’s proposal party, my son and future daughter-in-law’s visit, and it has only been in the last couple of days that I have truly come up for air.  After the pain and fever goes, one is completely exhausted.  Oh, by the way, you get Dengue from a mosquito, it cannot be transmitted any other way.  It is miserable…wear bug spray!!!!!! The diving was absolutely fantastic on the trip, as these photos will prove!  Now I’m getting ready to go to Florida…but that’s a long story, and I don’t know yet how it will turn out. Midlife, it turns out, is full of twists and turns!