Unexpectedly back in UK
After being ill off and on for the last month, I’m now back in the UK for what I will hope will only be a few weeks whilst I get proper diagnosis and get back to being fully fit.
I’d had a bug which kept coming and going, but then finally put me in hospital in Mekelle, on a drip and being given loads of strong antibiotics. After a couple of days I was well enough to travel to Addis, where I then spent another couple of days before returning to the UK. The diagnosis I’d been given in Mekelle was typhoid, but this was based on symptoms rather than a blood (culture) test result, and is also quite unlikely given I’ve been vaccinated and the antibiotics I was given when first ill are the ones use to treat typhoid.
I’ve now been to the doctors in the UK and am awaiting the results of (yet another) blood test. I am beginning to feel much better, but it’s hard to determine whether this is as result of being on the drip, or if it’s the antibiotics – at least I’m eating properly now!
All very strange being back, especially given that it was very unexpected and at short notice.I’m really hoping to be back soon, but need to wait until I have medical clearance from the VSO medical unit.
Now that I’ve been given so much treatment and antibiotics, I may never find out what was actually wrong, and can only hope that it’s not something that is going to recur.
Thanks to everyone who came to visit me whilst I’ve been ill – I’ll bring you some chocolate back!
