Exactly a week after returning from Bali I started to feel terribly ill. I had a temp of 103-104, headache, cough, body aches, fatigue and pretty much felt awful. After a day and a half of watching my misery Kingsley took me to the ER where they were sure that I had dengue fever but the lab tests for both dengue and malaria came back negative. The doctor sent me home saying it must just be a virus but if I was not better in a few days to return to the ER. Four days of absolute misery later and my fever was the same (104), same headache, body aches and body wracking cough. I was pretty out of it by the time Kingsley brought me back to the hospital again. This time they said "we are very confident this is dengue fever" but again the lab tests came back negative. When I arrived in the ER my temp was 104 which had them very worried (tell me about it, I had been that way for a week!!). Once they decided it certainly wasn't dengue fever the doctor honed in on my cough and said "I've heard that cough before, thats a pneumonia cough". He then listened to my lungs and decided to put me on a course of antibiotics. He explained that they don't usually see fevers so high with pneumonia but everything else made sense. And if the antibiotics didn't help in a few days to return to the hospital and they would have a tropical disease specialist try to figure out what was going on.
When we checked out of the hospital I was pretty sure we would be back in a few days, I just couldn't believe it was pneumonia.