July 19, 1999

ILLNESS

This had to have been my roughest weekend of the season. Saturday, I had hoped to help out the local Habitat affiliate in Jerome, Idaho dig some fence post holes in the backyard of the affiliate's first home but this didn't happen. Right after breakfast, I started to feel sick and I rushed downstairs to the guest bedroom where I stayed most of the day it seemed. Luckily, I was staying with the affiliate president.

I had the classical symptoms of stomach flu (cramps, diahhrea, headache, nausea). The only symptom that I didn't experience was vomiting. I don't know where I picked it up from. I was exposed slightly a couple of days earlier in Glenns Ferry. By the end of the day when I started to feel somewhat better, I could imagine that there was now a groove in the carpeting between the bathroom and my bathroom across the hall.