Posted on 12/24/2015 9:42:49 AM PST by Lazamataz
He’s fine now, but it was touch and go for a while.
He was in Papua New Guinea on a missionary trip.
Didn’t come down with symptoms until he was back here.
They tried quinine first, that’s all they had in the local hospital, but he had some bad reaction to it so they had to have some other drug flown in from somewhere...............
I’m glad he’s better. A major fear of mine and many of our colleagues is that we develop malaria in the US and some fool sticks us in the hospital and treats us improperly.
Quinine is a rough medicine. Everyone has a bad reaction to it. I hear symphonies and choirs. I see objects as disconnected from all the other objects. I can’t walk as I’m extremely dizzy. I have to take an anti-nausea medicine prior to taking quinine in order to keep it down. It’s really, now, a medicine of last resort.
It is our habit now to bring our medicines with us.
I hear those everyday!................I have tinnitus!.....................sometimes its Gregorian chants........................
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