Amoeba

This is in my intestines.

Stool Sample Kit. (shovel included)

Of course, if I am going to get sick, I mind as well get a horrible parasite! Woke up at 12am to use the bathroom, my host mom heard me and assured me that I needed herbal tea, so I sat up with her as she went out to the garden and cut off some random leaves to make my tea. I did not get back to bed until about 1am. Woke up around 5am to repeat my bathroom instance. This went on until the time I was supposed to get up for school. I then decided I don't think I could make it to school. By 8am, my mom was at the pharmacy buying me a stool sample kit. YAY. I had to take it right when she got home. I gagged, this was not my favorite thing to do. By noon my stool was being sampled and we had to pick it up at 12:30pm. This is when I found out I was diagnosed with Amoebas. My whole family got really worried and insisted on me drinking water, although anything that went into my body came straight out with in 10 min. I was not a happy camper. We made a doctors appointment for 2:30pm. We got there and the doctor was still on siesta (a break in the day from 12-2 where places close) he arrived a little after 4pm. I was currently about to die in the waiting area. Finally it was my turn and he told me that we needed to get an IV in soon, because I was very dehydrated. So he wrote out a prescription for me, and I had to go to the pharmacy to buy all the needles, tubing, and solution I would need for my IV. As soon as I got back the doctor was ready to get me on it. Instead of the usual rubber banding of the upper arm, I had to use my other arm to apply pressure so my vein would show. (I love U.S. doctors as of today). I was feeling much better after the IV, a little dizzy, but better. I got home and only have had one bowel movement. Thank goodness. My stomach still does not want to see, smell, or eat food, but it is feeling better, which is a major plus to me! I will be on medications for the next 15 days, to get rid of the Amoeba. :(

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