Trials and Tribulations

First of all, I got the dreaded disease MALARIA! It was a Nightmare! One of the main symptoms is body pains and I had always wondered what that meant. Well, now I know. It means your whole freakin body hurts! Felt like muscle cramps all over and I had a ridiculusly high fever. The first 3 days I took some medicine and thought my body would fight it. WRONG! I had to be driven to the clinic and when we got there my temperature was 104 degrees! This is after taking medicine. The immediately put me on IV drips and my temp did go down. The next 3 days were a different hell. All the medicine was making me sick and it completely wiped me out. I literally couldn't get out of bed and I kept vomiting. I had to go back to the clinic for another IV drip but this time for energy. All my boys were really sweet. They came in different shifts to pray over me and yesterday a big group of over 15 crammed in the room to pray for me. Thank God, I'm now much better. I'm still very weak but I was able to go back to school today. But that's not my problem.

My big problems is Immigration. It seems they have changed their policy allowing volunteers to continue extend their visas. They told me I can no longer extend my visa. I only have 2 more months left. Martin, the director, is pleading with them to let me finish my time here but so far nothing. Tommorrow he is going to try again and it's my last shot. I'm very upset because there is so much work that I haven't finished and some I haven't even started yet. I also can't suddenly leave all my boys like that. Oh! I ask everyone to pray or send positive thoughts for me to finish my work in Ghana!