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tropical disease from the bahamas
by: carina
on Fri, Jun 06 2008
My son and I travelled to the bahamas back in 1998.
Contracted a terrible disease, symptoms being extreme nausea, red sore eyes, aching hips, knees and legs , low grade fever with on and off chills, no appetite for 2 weeks and severe constipation passing blood. My son was covered with a lot of mosquito bites and we ate some raw counch. Came back to Canada and doctors just said there are no serious disease in the bahamas. My son had to be put on I.V. at the emergency ward at hospital ward for more fever diarrhea and nausea. After another month chronic cough for a couple of months developed, still suffering from the red eyes , headache,fatigue and severe constipation. Next come severe sleep disorder in both of us, we both have a type of sleep apena where we both shut down for breathing during sleep. We deal with this by inserting a homemade mouth device , to keep our airways open. My son suffers from severe nightsweats just about everynight , I don’t know if , its because he’s is over tired or because dinner meal was to hard on his digestion. One more wierd symptom that was having painful spine for over a month in both me and my son. We both live a terrible hard life, no doctor here gives a shit . I have to juice vegetable twice a day , protein meals no sugar. My son’s white blood cells are usually low, high protiein in urine , the toliet bowl full of foam . I have a mri showing my brain full of lesions and punctures. Had my gallbladder out because , i could no longer live with wanting to throw up every night during sleep. I had a full hysterectomy , because i could no longer take the weakness from loosing blood during my period. I have gone to the state and paid for a few infectious test such as malaria antibody and trypansoma cruzi, i don’t know if we will live long from this . What a nightmare , for a 2 weeks vacation to nassau , bahamas.
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