It’s hard to believe we have been in St. Thomas for five months…on one hand, it’s paradise. But the challenges have been many. I’ve neglected my responsibility to inform and it’s time to catch up on this story. Starting today I will fill in some “blanks”. Promise I have been recovering from a particularly nasty staff infection on my leg and what the doctors say is a dose of the Zika virus.
Started as a bad bruise but began growing very quickly. Several heavy duty antibiotics that kicked my but for a week, nauseous, body ached all over, could not eating thing for a week…..without….
All I wanted to do was sleep.
Return to Doc to discuss my side effects and after an examination, she announced that I might be her first Zika virus case of the season……great just my luck. She took blood samples to verify at the lab, but there are no labs here that test for Zika – have to be sent back to states and results would two weeks coming. I would be over it before I knew what it was. She assured me that it would not be damaging in anyway and I would never contract it again. Flu like symptoms for a week maybe and I’d be fine.