Last Friday we spent time at the clinic with Jonah (see previous blog post). Not wanting to be outdone by his second-born, this Friday was Gareth's turn! Gareth spent from 6pm until 11.30pm on a drip in the clinic because he had had bad diarrhoea and got himself dehydrated. A mixture of a viral infection (gastroenteritis-type thing) and a worm called giardia worked together to give him all this trouble. I, apparently, have the giardia worm too. I worked it out when the Dr said that the worm on its own only causes massive wind ... and I remembered the previous night when I was rolling around in bed trying to get an enormous amount of trapped wind out! ... but the worm together with a virus caused Gareth too much hassle. It is suspected that he caught this virus from the food prepared at the seven-hour 'fundraising' event he had been to the previous week. Not washing hands is the main suspect, and food sitting around for hours before eating it.
Always looking for the positive in life, we noticed that as I sat with him in the clinic watching Michael McIntyre on my laptop and the boys were being babysat by our visiting church team, this was the first time we had been out on our own in months! It was our first uninterrupted conversation since a friend babysat for us in May!
Gareth is now on the mend and just needs feeding up so that he has enough excess to lose next time he gets sick! We also must mention our wonderful Dr George who runs the local clinic and looks after us so well.
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