Posted on 07/30/2016 2:56:09 PM PDT by BenLurkin
About a week after the Rindone family returned from their tropical summer vacation, 7-year-old Andrew started complaining about a bump on his head.
"It did hurt a little," Andrew said. "And, it did itch."
The boy's pediatrician thought he had an infection and prescribed antibiotics.
But the bump just kept getting bigger, and a small pinhole began to appear.
Then one day, Andrew was on the couch when his mother saw something that horrified her.
"We kind of noticed something peek out of the hole," Jennifer Rindone said. The small opening was apparently a breathing hole for the larvae growing under Andrew's scalp.
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Andrew's mother said she screamed when she saw what was living under her son's scalp. The doctor admitted he had never seen anything like it.
Andrew said suddenly he was very popular at the hospital.
"About six to eight doctors came into the room ... and partied with the botfly, looking at the botfly, taking pictures," Andrew said.
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Oh, nasty. I hope you have recovered now.
Well yeah. Except for the nearly $100K I’ve spent on my teeth in the ensuing years.
My parents were told the vaccine was ‘safe and effective’. No one told them about the ‘miss’ rate. They never would have taken me to Africa had they known it was only ~50% effective.
Muscle aches and pains, colds and flu and other problems caused by energy imbalances.
LOL
It’ll give you some good ones that’s for sure.
When I was little I visited my Grandma’s farm .... she handed me some tweezers and a kitten and told me there was a worm in its skull that I needed to pick out as soon as it came up for air. She added, be gentle so it doesn’t break off just ease it out.
I stared at her in disbelief, then peered at the poor kitten as Grandma walked away like it was the most normal thing in the world.
Never knew such parasites existed in what I’d always thought was a pretty normal place. Ticks are one thing, but a worm that bores into a kitten’s skull? That gave me a few nightmares later, but I did get it out in one piece.
“If any of that is too daunting, just skip the shower. Everyone expects backpackers to be a bit smelly anyway.”
they forgot to add “with maggots under their scalp too”
Anywhere there are sub or tropical forests in Asia, I'd get it. Anywhere in SA, CA or Africa, I'd get it. It hurts and works you over physically but better than the plague.
Everything is a matter of probabilities. I’m sure people come down with some or other tropical disease in Anchorage now and then.
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