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). ย I was joined by two yoga buddies, and my roomie from my volunteer stint in Mozambique in 2012. ย How lovely it is to have a girl trip! ย 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. ย She is also a wonderful masseuse! ย 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. ย It was relaxing as well as fun. Well, until I came down with Dengue Fever!
Okay. ย 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. ย I had the symptoms, and I now fully understand why they call it “break bone fever”. ย Your bones and joints hurt like bloody hell! ย I had fevers over 102 degrees, and was sick, sick, sick. ย I really don’t know how I made it home last Friday I was in so much pain. ย The saddest thing about it: ย 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. ย And yes, it just killed me. ย I tried, but I couldn’t stop shaking long enough to even put on make-up. ย To add insult to injury, my son and his fiance came into town for the event, and I could barely even visit with them. ย It was awful.
So, I missed my daughter’s proposal party, my son and future daughter-in-law’s visit, andย it has only beenย in the last couple of days thatย I have truly come up for air. ย After the pain and fever goes, one is completely exhausted. ย Oh, by the way, you get Dengue from a mosquito, it cannot be transmitted any other way. ย It is miserable…wear bug spray!!!!!! The diving was absolutely fantastic on the trip, as these photos will prove! ย 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!
