The Native Iowan

Going through a bout of malaria. It’s a long, not uncommon tale, if you have lived in the tropics. Our entire family all had solid run-ins with malaria before their first birthday. Not common in the Western World but remains the second highest killer world wide.

But not to fear! We have always kept doses of “the treatment” on hand. Have to. Without it we’d be in a lot grief. Noting though that no one here has had a bout for quite some time. Long enough for me to kinda forget what it was… I was sick but not terribly sick, Thought it a low level flu bug, but had tale-tale aches and pains in my bones, which I’d forgotten about. Been so long.

I feel much better now. Knowing the illness will come back as the medicine wears low. You knock the virus back, it fights back, you push more. The drugs are not pleasant to take. Some are much worse than the illness.

We used to talk about the “malaria diet”.

Standard Malarial treatment (there are several possible drugs) entails 3 or 4 days of meds. The prescription I have here is 4xtabs for 3 days. Got my first half dose in last eve. Another half this morn. So, after just a days worth of treatment I’m feeling much better.

And I feel the fog rolling in… time to go…