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I finally took myself to the clinic, and I have roundworm. I can't google it because even pictures of worms are too horrendous for me, but it sounds rather disgusting. I asked Anne to look for me but she's "busy" with some sort of "work".
The clinic I go to is called Care Plus International. I first went when I had malaria. You go in to see the doctor, who asks you your symptoms and then sends you to the lab to give a blood sample, which they run straight away and then the doctor diagnoses you, writes the prescription and away you go. It's amazing how efficient places can be when it's all private healthcare and the vast majority of people are so poor that they couldn't begin to pay for treatment at nice places, so there's only ever a handful of patients/customers.
The first day I went I got to go and lie down in their tiny ward room with AC to wait for the medicine to take effect, which was nice and soothing. Unfortunately, as my malaria was combined with a bug, I threw up my medicine that evening, and had to go back to the clinic the next day. As she hooked me up to the rehydration drip the nurse scolded me for not coming in as soon as I was "vomiting too much". I guess I'm just not good at gauging the moment that one goes past the normal amount of vomiting and into too much.
Because I had vomiting more than the appropriate amount, I wasn't allowed the oral antibiotic anymore, so I had to go to the clinic for three days in a row to have it intraveneously. IT REALLY HURT. It was cold going in, and then seemed to be trying to explode out of my veins as it moved up my arm. Takes a long time to get everything in there, too. Quite often staff members will come into work with the stent (do I mean stent?) in their hand as the clinics leave it in for the whole time it's needed.
This time when I went back I wasn't vomiting at all (perhaps this was too little vomiting?), so I didn't have to have any injections, just a rather chalky pink deworming pill to chew. The nurse did take my vitals, and on seeing the amount of kilgrams I weigh, said "you're heavy!" in rather a charming way - not disapproving, or particularly approving come to that, just surprised and interested to see how much I weighed.
ETA Anne found me some no-pictures pages to look at. There could be lots of quite big worms in my intestines right now. THEY CAN SPREAD TO LUNGS TOO. But I don't think they're in my lungs. I really hope they're not in my lungs.
The clinic I go to is called Care Plus International. I first went when I had malaria. You go in to see the doctor, who asks you your symptoms and then sends you to the lab to give a blood sample, which they run straight away and then the doctor diagnoses you, writes the prescription and away you go. It's amazing how efficient places can be when it's all private healthcare and the vast majority of people are so poor that they couldn't begin to pay for treatment at nice places, so there's only ever a handful of patients/customers.
The first day I went I got to go and lie down in their tiny ward room with AC to wait for the medicine to take effect, which was nice and soothing. Unfortunately, as my malaria was combined with a bug, I threw up my medicine that evening, and had to go back to the clinic the next day. As she hooked me up to the rehydration drip the nurse scolded me for not coming in as soon as I was "vomiting too much". I guess I'm just not good at gauging the moment that one goes past the normal amount of vomiting and into too much.
Because I had vomiting more than the appropriate amount, I wasn't allowed the oral antibiotic anymore, so I had to go to the clinic for three days in a row to have it intraveneously. IT REALLY HURT. It was cold going in, and then seemed to be trying to explode out of my veins as it moved up my arm. Takes a long time to get everything in there, too. Quite often staff members will come into work with the stent (do I mean stent?) in their hand as the clinics leave it in for the whole time it's needed.
This time when I went back I wasn't vomiting at all (perhaps this was too little vomiting?), so I didn't have to have any injections, just a rather chalky pink deworming pill to chew. The nurse did take my vitals, and on seeing the amount of kilgrams I weigh, said "you're heavy!" in rather a charming way - not disapproving, or particularly approving come to that, just surprised and interested to see how much I weighed.
ETA Anne found me some no-pictures pages to look at. There could be lots of quite big worms in my intestines right now. THEY CAN SPREAD TO LUNGS TOO. But I don't think they're in my lungs. I really hope they're not in my lungs.
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Date: 2015-03-12 10:46 am (UTC)I think you probably mean cannula rather than stent. Do they put it in the hand there? I have had them in the hand and wrist but the nurses usually avoid those as it is more painful there, and mine, mostly, goes in the crook of the elbow.
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Date: 2015-03-12 07:15 pm (UTC)Possibly only Miss Manners knows how much one should vomit.
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