dengue fever in my body

so these past couple of weeks have been........well weeks i hope to never repeat again. it all started with ~

• getting the flu
• throwing up a couple of times and spending days in bed
• going to the doctor
• getting tested for malaria
• tests results showing i don't have malaria (yipee!) but that i have had the dengue fever in the past (what?) - which i was told is a virus i will have for life......
  
• feeling a little better after a week
• getting my third gardasil shot (hurt so bad - like injecting poison in my arm!)
• waking up in the middle of the night with horrible pains in my right arm, leg and chest. thinking i'm having a heart attack or that i have a blood clot that's headed to my heart
  
• going to the doctor again - get sent the IMC for a CT-SCAN, to find out if it is a blood clot

• sitting in the waiting room with tyler in pain and a bit scared
• being hooked up to an IV and told that they will inject a concentrate into my veins that will make me feel like i've peed my pants.........totally thought i did! it was such a strange feeling
  
• learning that no blood clot was found (yipee again!) but that i'd just developed an infection from the gardasil
  
• going home to ice my infected arm and dope up on ibuprofen
  
• waking up the next morning and feeling a ton better

now it's been a day and i think i'm almost 100% back to my healthy body. or this i hope! being sick is crap and i realized these past couple of weeks how much i take my body for granted. there is no better gift than health and the ability to run, dance, laugh and enjoy life. health is the greatest gift in the world. this has taught me to thank my Heavenly Father everyday for my healthy body and do what i can to maintain it.

thanks to my patient and wonderful husband for suffering through these last couple of weeks with me. he took care of me and did whatever he could to make me more comfortable - and i'll love him everyday for it.