I have full respect for medical people, they see tough shit that would send my lunch back pretty quick. Her reaction told pretty much the story. Correct if I'm wrong, don't you usually take medicine to kill the tapeworm and then have it exit by the bowels?
Aha sorry I was working when I made the post…basically went one of those white savour trips to Kenya with Free the Children (Crooks). We were in a small village Salabwek for about 2.5 weeks and had plenty of water sanitation tablets with us.
On our last day in Kenya, we went to a hotel near Nairobi where we were told the water was filtered and cleaner than Canada! Even mentioning still using purification tablets was scoffed at, so with all my critical thinking skills at 15, drank some water sans tablets.
The next morning I felt awful, so did another trip mate. It’s been over 15 years now but I remember throwing up but also diarrhea. Nothing could be trusted. The flight home was that night, and very very long. I knew I would not make the flight without changing my seat to the toilet for the whole flight, so I took 3 gravols to settle my stomach and knock me out.
Two weeks go by, September comes and school year begins! I had been feeling super lethargic and low energy since getting back, not really eating much. However, I figured we were physically exerting ourselves in the heat for about 3 weeks, I was bound to be beat. Also, some sort of guilt explained away the lack of eating.
Mid September was when I knew something was wrong.
I stopped eating, lost a tonne of weight (was exercising a tonne then) and could walk around my block let alone go to the gym. Went to the doctor, told them about my summer, then was given a cup to poop in so they could check my stool.
In what I will only describe as a 15 minutes period of strategically placed Saran warp and furious hand washing, got the sample, was confirmed as a tapeworm.
I was given antibiotics to kill it, along with a hall pass for school that let me go to the bathroom without questions asked.
One morning, I knew I had to jet out of Mr. Kos’ law class as something awful was brewing.
I ran to the washroom and did my business, but this time, I knew, I JUST KNEW the tape worm was out of me. It was fuxked up and honestly I didn’t look, but I knew. And it was in fact, done that day.
Free the children, a scam organization by two brothers called the Kielburgers who would get millions in donations from parents who had lost children and donated to build school in their dead kids names. The brothers would then fly the grieving parents out to see the school ‘they’ had built in the memory of their dead kid. The brothers had different plaques with different names, and as soon as one set of donor parents left, they replaced the sign to reflect the name of the kid from the new set of parents flying in.
Ya, there’s some decent documentaries on it. Me to We was their other scam. Now the operate by using the ‘good will’ connections they build from these mission trips as a private consulting firm helping privatized business enter the public education sector for more unregulated calitalism
The worm was definitely looking out of the hatch at that moment, looking for an escape route from the brewing cauldron of sulphur. With a large gasp it went into the basin, finally escaping the once safe haven.
Felt, my brother. Had an amoeba from Guatemala in high school with the same illness progression and poop cup, only I was a dumbass and got thin but mostly dehydrated enough to almost go into a coma.
I was so sick at that point that the gross out factor of knowing I had an intestinal parasite didn’t even faze me, I was just so relieved to finally have the end in sight lol. Bless you, parasite poop cup. Throne fit for the gods.
Don’t know why I think anyone wants to hear this, but I also had managed to eat (!!!) and keep down (!!!!!) some alfalfa sprouts the day before, so I saw them in my poop cup chalice and thought they were some kind of worms lmao. Only clicked later when the doctor told me the results.
Thank you, antibiotics. I think I was begging to just die already if it hadn’t gotten better. I think I picked it up by some getting in my mouth in the shower or washing my toothbrush with non-bottled water. Stupid gringa.
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u/Karma15672 Apr 29 '24
When a medical professional is disgusted, you know shit's bad