No, it wasn't some strange delicacy… I had these little creatures inside me and I paid to get rid of them! Everyone from our two teams (13 of us + the 3 squad leaders) ended up getting medicine for parasites in the last few days, and some of us spent last night in the hospital. Six of us shared one room!
I know it looks like we were having a party, and we were! 🙂 You can't see us all in this pic, but as you can tell Alys was on a mattress on the floor since they didn't have any more beds, and Sammie Jo shared a bed with Missy instead of being on the floor. None of us had symptoms that were too bad, except for two of our girls who were hospitalized before we were.
The food was either really good, or we were really hungry! Here's my plate near the end of a meal when I only had one plantain left…
Some of us had a worm and an amoeba, and some people had one or the other. We got it either from water, or food that had fecal matter on it. Gross. We're all fine now, though, so that's the good news!
Our team is leaving for El Salvador at 3:15am so I need to sign off for now………….
Jo Linda
