When you tell your hosts a teammate is sick, they offer you all different types of food: mayo, bread, chocolate, etc.
When you deny all of these, you eventually decide they need electrolytes.
When you tell the translators to tell your hosts you need electrolytes, it takes a long time for them to understand what exactly electrolytes are.
When your hosts and translators finally understand what electrolytes are, you decide to go to the pharmacy in town.
When you decide to go to the pharmacy in town, about fifteen people decide to join you on your journey to the pharmacy.
When you finally leave for the pharmacy with your entourage, people watch as you walk by and you feel like you are in a parade.
When you finally arrive to the pharmacy, all fifteen of us crowd the counter and gesture at once what we need.
When they finally understand, we decide they do not have what we need as locals crowd around and watch.
When they decide they do not have electrolytes, we go to a store to get sprite (and yet again another crowd is formed around us).
When we get sprite, we run into our friend John who leads us to a doctor’s house.?
When you reach the doctor’s house, she tells you that they only have electrolytes for children.
When that does not work out, John leads us to the local bar where a different doctor drinks after each work day.
When we reach the bar (which is really just a table outside where they are drinking a beer), people fetch us chairs and we all consult about how to get electrolytes.
When we consult about the electrolytes, the doctor tells us he will bring us some.
When we get home, the doctor arrives shortly after and we finally get electrolytes for our sick teammate.
When you open your medicine bag a week after this adventure, you realize that you have oral rehydration salts after the whole entarauge when through all the trouble to get them.
