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[slemslempike]

I can't decide whether my least favourite part of having malaria is the diahorrhea, the vomiting, the inability to sleep, the extremes of temperature, the all over body ache, or the constant metallic soap taste in my mouth.

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[land-girl.livejournal.com]

Malaria??? Oh my.

My dad had it many times as a small child in Nigeria, but doesn't really remember. Maybe it is just as well.

Please shout if there is anything at all that we can do?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Aw, thank you. Just comments is nice! I'm trying to get some work done as I don't seem to be able to rest without feeling sick.

Having it as a child must be horrid, it wipes you out so much.

[whatho.livejournal.com]

Oh lor. So sorry you got the beastly thing. Though it will look good in your memoirs. Hope you feel better soon. x

[nineveh-uk.livejournal.com]

Though it will look good in your memoirs

I was thinking the same. Lifelong ability to one-up people talking about their travellers diahorrhea at parties.

But it sounds horrid. I hope that you feel much better soon.

[sam-t.livejournal.com]

Dittoing all this. Despite the fact that you are engaging in a long and respectable literary tradition, I hope you feel much better soon.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am enjoying being part of a literary tradition now that I feel less like death!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Indeed! As long as I stay away from those who got typhoid themselves.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

My memoirs will be livened up no end. I enjoyed your facebook comment as well, once I had the anti-emetic that enabled me to actually look at a screen again.

[steepholm.livejournal.com]

Yuck - how horrible for you. I suppose it's a good excuse to drink tonic water, at least - and who would do that without gin?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

What a good point!

[lsugaralmond.livejournal.com]

Poor you I'm sorry. But at least it's a bit windswept and intrepid. Think of the cachet.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I do like the cachet! And having legitimate things to moan about.

[chiasmata]

Mooooooo! Poor you! (That was meant to be 'noooooooo', but you can pretend I'm making cow noises in sympathy, because obviously that is a logical thing to do. Or something.)

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I tried to comment on your moving post to saw aw, flat of happy memories, but it wouldn't let me. And the cow made me laugh :)

[callmemadam.livejournal.com]

OMG, poor you. Hope you feel better soon.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thanks, seem to be heading in the right direction now.

[katlinel.livejournal.com]

Ugh. That sounds horribly, horribly all-encompassing. Does one still drink gin and tonic for the quinine for malaria? Or is that some sort of colonial myth?

Get better soon.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think it is a colonial mt=yth, but certainly one that's worth taking notice of.

[alitheapipkin.livejournal.com]

*wince* Poor you, hope you feel better soon!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thanks - I'm hopeful I'm getting there now!

[khalinche.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I hope you feel better soon.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Thanks, I seemt o be on the mend now.

[jinty]

Joining in the chorus of sympathy! Look after yourself and hope the metallic soap taste goes away soon (and the rest).

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have managed to taste things now, and 7up is helping with the taste.

[mockduck.livejournal.com]

Bah, that sounds entirely rubbish - at least it could have the grace to let you sleep through the miserable symptoms.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

It is truly rubbish. Finally managed a bit of sleep this afternoon, as my line manager lent me his flat with a/c for the day and that helped.

[thereyougothen.livejournal.com]

Aaargh! How perfectly dreadful. Hopefully malaria meds will work with gin and tonic,
Because you *must* be able to have at least one of those a day!
Feel better soon!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I think it will be an important part of my recovery!

[felinitykat]

Malaria! Ugh! What a horrible horrible thing, poor you. I hope you're OK. Are people bringing you meds/liquids/other things that can help? xx

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

The vomiting got so bad I ended up back in the clinic on a rehydration drip and anti-emetic, but they gave me an intravenous antibiotic which seems to helped immensely already.

[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

How yucky. But at least you have an exotic sounding illness? Feel better soon!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I have been trying to console myself by pretending to be in Little House on the Prairie when the Ingallses get malaria. Feel better already, thank you.

[anglaisepaon.livejournal.com]

Good grief, they really worked their way around the diseases, didn't they?

So glad you're feeling better. Sending good thoughts your way, and a photo of Kiera Lovely Knightley, because of the loveliness. See, she even brings hot drinks!

http://www.pinterest.com/pin/515802963546305039/

[cellardor.livejournal.com]

Well all of that sounds horrible. Poor you! Are you being looked after? :(

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am yes, men have been cooking for me and worrying about me which is very pleasing.

[irrrtum.livejournal.com]

I am just thinking of all the anecdotes you'll be able to airily weave that into in the future: "oh I had malaria at the time". Get well soon, though. It sounds truly horrible.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I'm feeling a little better now, but hoping the clinic can give me another anti-emetic as the first one has definitively worn off.

[jekesta]

Tch. All the comments seem to think this is very cool of you, but I think you should know I'm just quietly disappointed in you. Weren't you supposed to not get malaria?

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Plans change, Mnn. Plans change, and you get plenty of time collapsed on the bathroom tiles vomiting copiously to consider what a mistake that was.

[girlofprey.livejournal.com]

Oh no Clare! Hope you feel better soon. If it makes you feel any better now, I'm currently having a period that means I have to keep playing the 'is this feeling hunger or nausea?' game. That's not quite as glam as vomiting. But still.

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

Ugh, that's never a fun game. My vomiting is sadly not glam at all, and isn't even satisfying once its done, which is most unfair.

[meaningrequired.livejournal.com]

!!! That is awful!

I really hope you start to feel better soon, and you're trying to work?! I really hope it passes as soon as it can!

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Oh yuck. I hope you feel better! Hopefully you can at least tick a box on the Expat Disease Bingo Card.

And now you can read this book with an insider's knowledge, possibly with a smug expression:
http://www.amazon.com/The-Fever-Malaria-Ruled-Humankind/dp/0312573014

[yiskah.livejournal.com]

BOOO MALARIA IS RUBBISH. I hope you are feeling better now!

[slemslempike.livejournal.com]

I am, much better. It turned out I had malaria and a bacterial infection and dehydration, so although I'd started to feel a bit better on Monday after the first tablets, the vomiting got severely worse and I spent Sunday at the clinic on a drip for rehydration getting intravenous antibiotics. So that was exciting. Yesterday was already improved and I didn't vomit at all last night!!! Kept a whole pot of yoghurt down!

Though I did spent the time not vomiting with a very convincing physical sensation that my teeth were crumbling in my very mouth and having to check constantly on them with my tongue. Still not sure they're all there.

[whatsagirlgotta.livejournal.com]

Bah, this sounds not at all fun, hope you're on the mend now.