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To: dvdw© who wrote (51548)6/19/2009 6:35:18 PM
From: elmatador  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 217644
 
He hasn't felt the symptoms of malaria. I never ever had a fever. First malaria you have it is very hard.
The medicine wreaks havoc on you.
By the fourth I as already needing the cocktail type since I was getting resistant but the bugs were getting too!
So I took Fansidar since the bugs strains were resisting Chloroquine.

Although my Malaria type could kill it is not the recurrent type.

The non lethal malaria type doesn't kill but recurrs.
Doc told me to be carefull for 10 years. I tested only one year after I left becaue I ahd overworked and felt tired and weak. No malaria every recurred.

Apart form the first one that took too long to replenish red cells, the others were just like a strong flu.
The one -nr. 7- that attacked my stomach was the worse I ever had. I vomiting and with diarrea. 410Km from my doctor. The Autrian doctor -it was a truck fatcor the camp I was staying- said I had food poisoning. And treated me for that. Adn I had no Fansidar with me.

I was afraid of dehydrating and dying. So I kept pumping water down my throat by the minute.

I threw up and the water was still cold. I asked for lukewarm water. And I put more water inside and if I did not vomited it, it was just coming in the other side. any smell of any food and the stomach emptied.

Next day, the water held inside. I throw myself inside the car. Laid in the back seat and Linus drove me to Kaduna. I can recall his rear mirror pinted down to me at the back seat, for him to see it I was not dead.
I got my few bit of strength and said: "we go reach that Kaduna, no worry o!"

We arrived, and when people saw me trying to go out of the car I could see I was looking like shit. I took, Fansidar, and recovered eating bananas, biscuits, tea and coke and until my stomach could digest something more substantial.
My driver Linus is the guy with the black stripped shirt choosing Yams



To: dvdw© who wrote (51548)6/19/2009 7:53:48 PM
From: paintbrush  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 217644
 
I never had malaria, just doing some reading on it.

From what Elmat just shared in another thread, I am surprised he is still alive.