Yesterday was by my recent standards a very busy day. In the morning I had a short trip to the hospital to drop off a stool sample, not sure when the results will be ready, but I have not heard yet. Fortunately I did not have any real problems in that department yesterday, with healthy stool. Unfortunately my appetite is still small, which is worrying me slightly. I ate a very small breakfast and lunch, although by tea (which was very late) my appetite was better. In the rest of the morning after taking the stool sample I rested. The Christmas [View Full Entry]

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For once yesterday I was not greeted with diarrhoea. I went to see the doctor in the morning anyway, bring the stool sample from yesterday (which had been frozen) with me. After a little wait, (and a chat with the administrator Francis) I saw the Doctor. She told me the stool sample had to be taken in a sterile container, and that I would need to go to the labs to get one. So the stool sample I brought (taken in a matchbox) was binned. She was helpful enough, but little great change. Then I went with Francis to the labs [View Full Entry]

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Woke up this morning hoping for good health. Sadly greeted after short while with another bout of diarrhoea (three bowel movements). Took sample to hospital to be tested, also Widal test for typhoid again. After being told to wait for two hours for results, decide to go back to the house, as it's only a short distance away. I could have walked if I felt ok, but catch a taxi instead, costing the equivalent of 75pence. Back at house get diarrhoea again, even though I have not eaten breakfast, and there's virtually nothing left in my digestive system. After two further [View Full Entry]

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Again yesterday morning I was greeted with diarrhoea. I took a sample so it could be tested. I phoned Nuhu to arrange a visit to Mnazi Moja to see what tests they could do on it there. He came and visited, and then phoned the hospital before heading into the office, he said he would phone again when the car would come to pick me up. A total of four movements during the day. Yesterday morning I was able to have a shower for the first time in a while, as the water pump has been fixed. It felt very good! [View Full Entry]

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Once again, yesterday was spent resting. Not that much change. I thought about trying to go into the office in the morning, but still don't feel well enough. I took my last dose of the ciproflaxin at breakfast and my last dose of albendazole at lunch. The albendazole taken on it's own wasn't too bad really. Didn't feel bad like previous days, maybe that's due to the Hookworm's departure. Appetite improving. Feeling better generally. Faeces in the morning OK, though still not perfect. Pineapple, bread and a bit of some sort of pancake for breakfast, beef and rice for lunch, oysters [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday I spent resting and recovering. I still feel pretty weak, and the drugs are still making me feel ill. I spent the day mostly watching TV, listening to the radio and reading a newspaper. My faeces are staying fairly close to normal, but still not entirely normal. Hopefully once I am off the drug, they will be entirely normal. Immediately after lunch I actually felt quite well, I think some glucose slipped into me in the gap between the old dose of the drug running out, and the new dose getting started. Hopefully the worms did not feel similarly energised. [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday wasn't a very nice day, and started much earlier than normal. I will let my diary of the early morning expain... Early Morning Bowel Movements 17/12/05 Immediately after diarrhoea shivering. The 5/10 minutes later hot flush and sweating. Wake up feeling thirsty and abdominal cramp. First bowel movement - small amound of faeces produced. Second bowel movement (shivering) - very small amount of faeces produced. Third bowel movement - Medium / small amount of faeces produced -some collected and frozen Time after third bowel movement 01:20 Treated with salt rehydration solutio [View Full Entry]

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Again yesterday I had diarrhoea in the morning, sufficiently bad for me to go to the Doctor that morning immediately. I went to the government hospital again, and saw the same Doctor as before. He told me to keep taking the oral rehydration salts, ciproflaxin (an antibiotic which I already had from a previous doctor) and imodium. He told me to go to Al-Rahma Hospital for blood slide malaria test, widal typhoid and stool test. I did not take any imodium, as I wanted to find out what was wrong with me, and so provide a stool sample. At the Al-Rahma [View Full Entry]

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Diarrhoea was worse again yesterday morning. I decided to take myself along to the Doctor again. This meant my trip to Jozani Forest was sadly delayed again, although Nuhu decided it wasn't a good idea anyway due to the election. The Doctor was a different one compared to the last time, even though the dispensary was the same. The malaria test was negative, which is good news, but I didn't find this Doctor as helpful. He prescribed me paracetamol and Becozinc TM. The paracetamol was because of the headaches yesterday (these were very mild, and given my tiredness, I will not [View Full Entry]

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Yesterday was election day in Tanzania, so sadly that meant I was stuck in the house. Election day is a national holiday, so I think the office was closed. Also there has been violence in the past, so I had to stay at home. The diarrhoea has made a return, so it wasn't the end of the world, plus I had a bit of a headache. I did some more reading for my English teaching. I don't think there was much violence if any, but being at home, I didn't see much. Water is still off, so still no shower. Maybe [View Full Entry]

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