Becoming Sick In Juba…
I heard Dr. Konyokonyo is not in town and I don’t know where else to go…
For the past four days, I’ve been sick! I can’t remember what I ate or where I ate it, but my stomach has been making noices, it aches and I have been visiting the restroom more often than I usually do. (Do you guys want details?)
Here in Juba, they say it’s a nice welcome, the Juba way. Everyone who’s new in Juba gets ‘welcomely’ hit by diarrhea and malaria sooner or later. That’s if Juba likes you… if not or if you are just unlucky, something else might hit you..
But I’m getting better, thanks to some pills called DiaFix. I’m already preparing for malaria…
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Awwww. Yea, everyone I know who has been to Sudan in the past few years (after spending years in the U.S.) has been sick while there or sick when they came back. Something in the food or water…or as I joked with my mother, maybe your body was not used to eating foods that didn’t have 78989899 hormones and preservatives injected into them. haha.
That’s why I’m frightened by the idea of going to Sudan. I will probably waste away and come back even more emaciated looking than I already am.
As for Malaria. When I was trying out this whole refugee thing in Uganda, I was hit with it multiple times, and I almost lost my younger brother to it. Nasty disease. I should write about my adventures in Uganda.
Someday…
God I had (and have) a very exciting life.
P.S. Get well.
Fansidar, it’s the strongest malaria pill, take it now and take it quick before u develop full-blown malaria.
Get well soon! Dr.konyoknoyo should come n save the day!
Uhmmm . . . That is a welcome evryone deserves over here. Those who survive end up telling all the stories. Like SR here, I guess he has already survived the dangerous phase! He will live
By the time he locates my clinic things will be better for SR already. Just keep your cool.
I had the same thing a long time agao when I spend more than five years in Khartoum studying. I came to Juba and returned to Khartoum only to get a severe form of malaria that almost led me six feet under. I tell you it is not a nice experience.
By the way KIzzie, Fansidar alone is no longer the strongest in Sudan. It is being mixed with artesunate to give better effects nowadays.
Dont worry over him. He will make it.
thank you all.. I’m better now, but pls don’t celebrate yet. I think.. no I know this peace will not stay for long.
@Dalu, If you are coming to Sudan for just a few days, then you have to be very careful otherwise you’ll just waste your days in Juba in bed. But not to discourage you, there is still lots of good around here, like the nile and .. u know
@Kizzie, I took those pills and I think they have helped. I have mosquito bites all over my upper arm and I think I must have lost over 2 litres of blood to those suckers. But like DKK said, they say Fansidar alone will not really do the job.
@DKK.. I finally spotted your clinic, but is it normally closed in the morning?
My guess is SR sat for far too long on the bank of the Nile, listening to “I want You” by the good old Beatles, and thinking about a certain voluptuous ms D
In the process, he may have gotten a wee bit thirsty, grabbed a cup and taken a few sips of the romantic Nile water. You know even Egyptians have sang myraid songs about romance, the Nile, romance and the Nile. Is it any wonder why our one and only Ms Dalu beeped Sham el Sheikh 
By the way, I read she too is kind of sick, not by drinking from the Nile,but by association. DKK, you should give SR a couple of Fansi Da (jeez, what a fancy name!), trust me SR will soon be fine. OK, that was a bit too…..
Let me go smoke my weed before I take that flight to Wau. DKK, do you have a clinic somewhere in the town?
Guys, SR, Dalu, hope you get well. Best wishes to you all.
Yea, I am sick. This whole change of season thing… I tried to avoid all the cold/cough infested folks on public transportation, my classes and my own family but to no avail…
But yea, LOL @ Uncle Sossa.
Drugs, malaria and romance, someone page hollywood…I think we have the perfect mix for a soap opera.
[...] SudaneseReturnee was also feeling ill. He tried looking for Dr. Konyokonyo but couldn’t find him in his clinic. Maybe that’s because Dr. Konyokonyo was busy blogging a post on prioritizing health issues in Southern Sudan: How do you chose which problems to tackle first? When the GOSS [Government of South Sudan] came on, they promise quick fixes for lots of things like building hospitals, clinics and health centers where none existed before. Old hospitals will be rehabilitated. Health surveys were done in all the states. What happend next? [...]
[...] SudaneseReturnee fühlte sich auch krank. Er versucht nach Dr. Konyokonyo zu schauen, aber er konnte ihn nicht in seiner Klinik finden. Vielleicht weil Dr. Konyokony damit beschäftigt war einen Eintrag zu bloggen, der versucht Gesundheitsthemen im Südsudan in den Vordergrund zu stellen. Wie soll man entscheiden, welche Probleme man zuerst angehen soll? Als die Regierung des Südsudans ankam, versprach sie schnelle Abhilfe für viele Dinge zu schaffen, wie den Bau von Krankenhäusern, Kliniken und Gesundheitseinrichtungen, die es zuvor nicht gab. Alte Krankenhäuser sollen saniert, Gesundheitsstudien in allen Staaten gemacht werden. Was passierte? [...]
[...] SudaneseReturneeはまた、体調が悪くなっていた。彼はKonyokonyo医師を探そうとしたが彼の診療所を見付けられなかった。たぶんそれは、Konyokonyo医師がスーダン南部の健康問題の優先についてブログを書くのに忙しかったからだろう： どの問題に先に取り組むべきかはどのように決めるのか？GOSS（南部スーダン政府）が入ってきたとき、以前はまったくなかった病院や診療所そして保健所の建設などその場しのぎのことを約束した。古い病院が修復される。全ての州で健康調査が行われた。次は何が行われるのか？ [...]