Malaria?

Last week Sean was sick. He was fine one minute, and then next he was lethargic, had a fever, felt sick, had a head ache and shivery. The next day he went to the Dr and had 2 malaria tests done. Both of those tests came back negative, but the Dr was not convinced and put him on medicine to fight his horrible disease. Sean continued with the symptoms ~ fever, lethargic (napped most of the day), head aches ~ all weekend. At one point I walked into the house, the air conditioning was off and here Sean was in a sweat shirt and sweat pants claiming it was cold! He attempted to go back to work on Monday but was sent home, Dr's orders. By Tuesday he said he left 95% better and did not get another Malaria test done. A week later, Sean seems to be back to normal. Maybe it wasn't Malaria, but it is better to be safe than sorry.

Every day, for the past 111 days, we have taken Malarone. This is an anti Malaria drug. This does not prevent us from getting Malaria, it just makes the affects less if we do get it. We take Malarone every day, the kids take a pediatric version. Carter and Regan take 2 and Bailey takes 3. So in total, we have taken 999 pills. And we have not even been here 4 months!

So with Sean getting sick last week I thought a bit of Malaria information would be good for all of you reading this blog.



This next video is quite long, almost 10:00 minutes. But very interesting on how the parasites attack the blood cells.



This last video plays a few times. The actual cheer is only less than 2 minutes.

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