The sickness that Alison started to have last night flared up full strength today for both of us. We spent the night running to the bathroom and then running back to our room to get horizontal again. In the morning we were barely up before noon. We hardly had the energy to moan to each other how terribly we both felt, but it was such a comfort to have someone there who was going through the same thing. The grandma came in and kept trying to get us to eat and we didn't have the energy to convince her that we couldn't. Upon seeing I was also sick she went out and bought a pill of some sort and tried to get me to take it with hot water. Alison tried to explain to her that it would dissolve but again to no avail. When Joyce researched it, the pill turned out to be for tachycardia, or irregular heart beat, which was disconcerting to say the least. We are all pretty sure Alison and I have food poisoning, we think our hearts are fine!
Joyce also said that in a weird turn of events Nicole had stopped being able to hear out of her right ear upon arrival in Lima and a doctor had grounded her for a day so that she could go and get a check-up, which really sucks for her. We hope her hearing problem is not serious and she can soon be on her way home.
Back in Ayacucho we have decided the three of us will all move to a new host house as we have had some problems here. I called my parents and also talked to the volunteer organisation and we will move tomorrow. I hope I did the right thing in setting in motion the process to get us moved, but it is great that we can all still be together.
