"Oh, I did get way sick on Wednesday. I had crazy diarrhea, threw up and felt way bad. Anyway, I called the mission presidents wife and she told me to find a doctor. We called the zone leaders and they took us to a doctor but he wasn't any normal doctor ha ha. He was more like a Voodoo doctor. We stepped into his creepy little doctors office and he sat me down at his old dusty wooded desk. I tell ya, this guy was weird, he was way short, had crazy hair, looked liked he just woke up and had an old rusty pair of glasses.
He begins asking me what I have and as I do so, he pulls out this huge old doctors book that looked like it came from the 1800's. He gets a little bottle and started mixing up some concoction of something. In other words, he made his own medicine for me. He told me to take it every hour and made me take it while we were there. I was really reluctant so he actually put it in my mouth himself.
Well after that he told us there was no charge and we got out of there as fast as we could, ha ha.
Afterwards we went to a real doctor and she prescribed some real medicine for me. I told her about the other doctor, thinking I might die from what he gave me, but she told me not to worry that he's just one of those naturalist. She said I could keep taking his medicine if I wanted and nothing bad would happen to me.
I'm all better now so no worries."
Ah the joy! Just gotta love being the mother of a missionary!
6 comments:
Wow, what an adventure! It's the stuff missions are made of.
Yikes!!! Bless his heart - that is rough! So cool to read part of his email - thanks for sharing it with us. I'll keep him in my thoughts!
That naturalist doctor sounds radical. What a great story.
that doctor does sound nuts.
i like that he says, "oh, so i was sick" like it's no big deal. just trying not to scare mom, right? :)
Whoa, is this what I have to look forward to? A little frightening. I'd imagine there's plenty of voodoo in Indonesia.
Very interesting, haha. I think I would go to a real doctor too. But then again, what did the human race do before medical degrees were invented...
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