Oh what a night!

Wow what a night this has been. It is 0333 on Wednesday morning. I have been awake for a while. I actually went to bed fairly early last night. I had gone to the Nakamal at about 1800 had one shell and then took a spel. Well for my Navanu I ate cooked banana with avoka, man it was tasty.

For some reason I felt a little bit off. I only drank one shell and went home before 1930. I walked straight back to my hut and shut my door. Usually after the Nakamal I go eat with Namke and his family, but tonight I just did not feel like it. That should have been my first sign something was not right. I just wanted to climb in bed and go to sleep. I started reading Catch-22 and read about 25 pages before I gave up and just gave into sleep. I looked at my watch and it was only a little past 2000.

All night long my mouth seemed to be super dry. I did not want to get up and walk across the house (ten feet away) to get some water. Well finally at one point and I am not sure what time it was, I could not take it anymore. I got up and poured me a glass of water from my water jug. I drank the whole glass in two gulps, but then I started to feel really funny. I had the strong and quickly approaching sensation that I was going to puke.

I opened my door so I could get outside to the bushes to troat, puke. This is when everything went dark very quickly. I am not sure if I completely blacked out or what, because I feel like I felt the whole thing happen. The old bamboo close to my door snapped scratching up my leg pretty good. Meanwhile, I fall forward and slam into the ground in front of my house. I just lay there, thinking wow I do not feel like I have to puke anymore.

This was not one of those; oh I fell so get up. I am pretty sure I blacked out, because when I was on the ground I did not want to move. I still felt funny. I had my headlamp on, so I reached up and turned that off, so that I could just lay there in the dark on the cool wet ground. Luckily I had missed a log with my head about 5 inches. I had a log there because I am going to finish my deck tomorrow, depending on how I feel that is. I pulled the log a little closer to use it as a pillow. I then just laid there thinking, wow this is not good.

I finally pulled myself up, after about ten minutes and tried wiping the dirt off of me. This was pointless. Luckily I had fallen asleep with a t-shirt on so I pulled that off and climbed back in bed. When I got into bed I was shivering. I am in the middle of the hot season in the south pacific, there is only one reason you get the shivers and that is when you are sick. I then started thinking man when is the last time I took my malaria prophylaxis. I am still in the window of coverage so I do not think it is malaria. I also feel a lot better now.

I think I will be replacing my entire floor soon. Well, I am going to try and go back to sleep for another four hours. Dowit Lanaeyu (good night in local language.)