Malaria  Malaria

Ok malaria and me, so I realize I may be in paradise now, but soon I am to see a different new and dangerous side to Africa . Kruger park, and there lies Malaria, now that don’t mean a lot to me, same as you. I know its proper nasty and if you get it may come back at any time in your life and kill you!! Flu like, I believe but with fatal results. I have been advised by different people on how to deal with it, some people here in Africa have said don’t take anything the cure it's as bad as the disease!! And others have said "don’t be a fool I have lived here for years and I would not take the risk of not taking it" So in the end I made my own mind up to take the pills.
It's like one of of my closest friends said "it's a personal choice" and I have chosen to do it. Why?? To be honest for my kids and family, say if I got ill and hadn’t bothered!!
Sorry to interrupt me, but the strangest thing just happened!!! I am sitting here on my patio overlooking the sea and I have just been given goats cheese by a Dutch lesbian!!! They are in a room two doors up and she just wandered over and gave me her goats cheese!!! They are off tomorrow and didn’t want to waste it, so I must have looked like a good person to give it to!!!! I had a conversation with her in pigeon English and they are off on safari soon and didn’t want to waste it. That’s the Dutch for ya!!
So the Malaria ha ha... I started taking the pills last night after a belly full of champagne and sea food (bubbly only 5 pound a bottle)
I with dread, took my once a week anti Malaria pill and drifted off into an uneasy sleep in my more than luxurious bed. I awoke many times during the night to hear the roar of the Indian ocean (very warm by the way) to very disturbing dreams!!! The worst was that my Gerhard (my host) was stabbing me in the arm with a rather nasty sharp piece of soap!!!! And several times I woke up and checked my forearm for puncture wounds and really thought the fiend had done it!!!
You must understand the soap out here is particularly dangerous with the 30 degrees temperatures you could easy have your leg off!!! It seemed so real, but apart from that no complaints in fact I may crush one up and do a line at breakfast!!! I believe people pay a lot more than 8 pound for a fix like that!!! ;-)
So come on ye Mossies bring it on George of the jungle is on his way ha ha

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