Despite not leading much of a healthy
life-style, Mountain Man is strong. Very strong. He hasn’t had a day off from
work for medical or health reasons since 2003.
Come around 11pm on Saturday night Mountain
Man finds himself shivering, shaking and shitting out pus. All night. He hopes
it’s food poisoning and calls Ginger Warrior and Frank, his dining companions
from last night’s golf tournament. Both are fine.
I desperately wanna get to school to see how
the cleansing is shaping up, but i am severely weak. I drift in and out of
sleep throughout the day getting up regularly to fill my toilet bowl with liquid
pus. I am determined to make it to school on Monday.
As night falls, so my fever returns and
spend last night between 2 – 5am making some eight trips to empty my bowels. I
am at school by 7am and last to after my Monday briefing. My managers, teachers
and staff beg me to seek medical immediately and i acquiesce. I call Dr. Saba,
chief medical officer at Ethiopian Airlines and she tells me to meet Dr Getahun
at Landmark Hospital in the city centre, and Rasta R. Insists on escorting me.
I somewhat guiltily get fast-tracked and
after a 2 minute examination i am packed of to the Lab for a blood-test. I
don’t wanna wait for the 2 hours required to get the results and return back to
campus. I feel completely worn out and i arrange for one of the site-guys to
collect test results and any medication required. I head back home and drift in
and out of sleep. By 4pm i get a call, instructing me i need to get a stool
test done at any clinic and return back to the Landmark hospital tomorrow.
Ginger Warrior kindly agrees to drive me to
the local Korean Hospital. It’s no problem to provide a sample, but the
difficulty is getting it into the test tube they’ve given me. And no toilet paper
provided.
Within i get my results –“many pus” – i didn’t
really need a laboratory to tell me that.
Into school tomorrow, to ensure the school
has been appropriately cleansed. and then a return to the Landmark Hospital in
the search for the quality drugs.
a vaguely clean and empty Korean Hospital
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