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The ramblings of a feverish mind

Untagged  20 Jun 2007 7:17 AM
Source of the problem by BOD Comment (4)
 

Just come back from another round of blood tests. While the white blood cells are holding their ground, the platelets have been forced back. So not great news. And a few more small skin hemorrhages as well. So feeling a bit disheartened today.

 

The irony is that this tropical fever was not contracted (strange word that - I don't remember agreeing to get infected!) in the jungle proper but in an urban area. We are now pretty certain I got it at a squatter's camp

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Untagged  20 Jun 2007 6:28 AM
We met only Once but I'll Remember her as long as I live by BOD Comment (3)
 

Never done a blog before. But now that I have time to fill with thinking about things I ‘ll give it a try.

This space to think and reflect comes to me courtesy of  an Aedes Egyptii mosquito and the arbovirus  she left behind as a forget-me-not. That I won't,  for sure, though I cannot put a place or time on our intimate encounter as dengue fever is more a disease of  built up areas and not the jungle proper though it can occur there

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