The curious curse!?!

BEWARE This post contains some weird/gross pictures!

So Since i have been here in mexico...I have had to ask 4 or 5 different people to call my mommy cuz i was hurt. I have decided I am cursed! Dun, dum, dunm...hat or severely accident prone HAHAH. So i jsut thought i would share some of my mishaps in hopes that if I publicly laugh at myself maybe i will stop getting hurt. So here it goes... First, the first week here i got about 6 mosquito or what i think were mosquito bites on one foot, one of which was on my right ankle near my Achilles tendon. I went running with some people and my shoe rubbed and rubbed it... well the next morning i woke up to this HUGE blister in it's place it was a weird color and I had never seen anything like it, and my ankle was all swollen. SO I called mom and she helped me through the process of letting out the fluid with a needle and a few days later it started healing itself..

Second, I went to this amazing water park here called Rios Salvaje. It is bascially a smaller and more ghetto version of wet n wild. They had about ten slides but throughout the day they take turns opening about three. SO there is always a really LONG line and you can only ride the slides when they are open. So you only have certain options. Well, when we got there i made this goal to go on every slide in the park no matter what it looked like. They were fun slides, nothing too fancy. As i was entering the park i was chatting with one of the mexican girls from the institute here, she said not to go on the serpent, it is a closed tube and is basically a slide for children because it is not very steep at one point towards the end it actually goes completely flat. So as I waited in line with a few of the guys(the line takes forever because everyone gets stuck in the bottom where it goes flat and has to push themselves out with their hands) we were trying to decide how to not get stuck. They had me go first because i was the only girl in the group. At the top there is a bar above the tube so i put my feet on the bottom of the tube and my hands on the bar and kinda rocked myself and then launched myself into the tube. I was cruising it was very fun because it zig zags like a snake back and forth so it was fun until they positioned the zig zags too close together. I was going so fast when i hit that part that it flipped me over and I smacked my head on the bottom of the tube. The funniest part was that the guys at the top heard the swish, swish, thud but didn't know what had happened, as i sat at the bottom holding my head i heard the next guy come down and all of the sudden i heard the swish, swish, thud. It happened to all 5 of us hahah. However, i was the only one who hit my head. A few minutes later i realized i had a HUGE goose egg on my head. I didn't have my camera so i took one when we got back i took a picture but you can't see it well.
Third, About a week and a half ago I went to the beach with a group of people. We got a little lost looking for the beach house and wandered on the beach for a few minutes. I took of my shoes and walked down by the water because it is one of my favorite things(YAY newport, i can't wait). Well, somehow i stepped on a really sharp shell, or some glass, that cut open my foot. It made a pretty deep cut and left this big flap of skin that filled sand as even after i put back on my sandals. When we found the beach house, i cleaned it out and one of the girls, amber h.(lifesaver had a first aid kit). so we put on a bandaid, i knew it wouldn't stay on in the water so we macgyvered a bandage out of athletic tape to keep it on. WE thought the tape would stick to itself even in the water but after a minute or two of swimming it started to come off so i ended up tying it in a knot to keep it on. Here is picture of Kate and I laying out on the porch of the beach house. You can see my makeshift anklet hahah. the yguys were making fun of me! but hey it worked!!










THEN!!! two days ago i got some more bug bites cuz i ran out of bug spray and bought some from here and apparently it doesn't work for me. When i went to sleep the bites looked like this.. They itched like crazy, but i learned on my mission not to scratch(I tend to be allergic and after fleas and crazy mosquito bites i know it only makes it worse) SO i took some benadryl and went to bed. When i woke up the next morning they looked like this! CRAZY huh?? I didnt scratch them or anything...SO i realized something wasn't right. I showed the advisor who sent me to the doctor here in mexico. The doctor is actually one of the dad's of the families that some of the girls live with. He is a retired endocrinologist, when he saw my leg he was baffled. He said he has never seen anything like it and looked thru some of his big medical books and couldn't really find what he was looking for. SO he told me what he thought it was and said i should take some antibiotics to kill the bacteria that could be causing it. And told me to let him know if it gets works because he will refer me to a specialist because he doesn't actually know what it is. I then talked to my mom who called some doctors in our ward and he said he thought it sounded like it could be a fungus.. :-/ SO to cover my bases i am taking an antibiotic, applying a fungal cream, and dying because it itches SOO bad :) The funny part is i think it is an allergic reaction to something that bite me and neither of the medications will really help..but what do i know, i'm no doctor! :)

So there you have it folks, I am cursed! Somehow I keep getting hurt, and now i have the plague of weird blisters that one of the girls told me she thought looked like tree sap! HAHAHA I love MEXICO!!! :)