Escape from Covid-19 prison. Final destination Addis Abeba
Finally I ran out of Visa extensions in TZ. Now? Where to where there's no BS. The New Flower ticks all the boxes. After paying to the tanzanian goons 100 $ for a negative Test I boarded the regular Ethiopian flight to Addis. First some hints. Don't do what I did. Going from 0 altitude to 2500 meters in the span of 2 hours. Every mountain guide will shake his head. And from 30° see down to 10°.
You're going to die. Unless you're Nepalese or come from Peru. Or your name is Haile Gebreselassie.
After almost a week of suffering I slowly crawl out of the hole. Mild Altitude sickness plus mild shits. Circulation almost breaks down. In short no fun. You have to allow at least one week for your system. Drink 3 Liters. Water. Even one beer aggravates the altitude sickness.
So no time to chase pussy yet.
Here all the Christmas lights bars are open around Piazza. Here you have the full range. Mangy street dogs. Obnoxious lottery ticket sellers. Loads of beggars of all description. Madmen in suit and tie. You name it. They got it. Do I love it? You bet. And finally. The chicas. Stunning beauties everywhere you go. And the Addis habesha girls have style. They're goddesses walking on this earth right now. Ethiopia has probably the highest concentration of stunners on this planet.
Are there easy to get? Of course not. Most have boyfriends. Here as a ferengi the rock star factor is zero. One word to the cash and carry pattaya mongers. Stay away. The locals will quarter and skin you alive if you're not an experienced africa operator. And forget coming for a week. You just going to die unless you're from Nepal.
Neddy.
Lion of Judah.
Escape from Covid-19 prison. How I beat The Grim Reaper
This is my single most important message or post I herewith publish. Its not monger related but medical advice for africa mongers.
Timeline:
MON.
6 AM I wake up in my clammy guest house. My two t-shirts I slept in are soaking wet. I try to get up I feel like a zombie in slow motion. Leaden movements. I walk up to my breakfast place. I sit down go straight to the toilet. Watery discharge. My circulation almost gives in.
I know I am very sick.
TUE.
Feeling slightly better. Although watery discharge. Very weak. Try to entice a pharmacy to sell me something against bad stomach. Her advice. Go to clinic.
WED.
Same shit different day slight improvement but condition generally unchanged. Very weak no energy. Watery discharge.
THU.
6 PM My whole body suddenly goes very hot. I measure fever 39.1 I take a taxi to emergency room of Norwegian medical services a very good private hospital. The ER goes through procedures.
I agree with the GP on blood and stool samples they check for malaria infection as I told them coming from Dar I definitely want to include a malaria quick test all parasites and amoeba etc.
Test results are in. They found nothing. Malaria negative all diarrhea agents negative. However.
The infection marker was sky high. So my body was fighting what?? The GP send me home with 3 sacks of ORS and Amoxicillin 1000 a broad band antibiotics. Naturally I was not happy but it proved food for thought. I was pretty sure.
FRI.
More or less quiet felt sqeazy no energy. Took 2 antibiotics as described.
SAT.
5 PM.
I moved from this hellhole to Atlas hotel. Suddenly red hot Body again fever 39.9.
It was there and then when I diagnosed myself correctly that I had a malaria infection with m. Falciparium. A souvenir from Dar es Salaam. I whipped out my chlorine dioxide prepared the one the malaria dose of 14 drops dliuted in 120 ML of water. I gulped it down followed by one liter of water. The effect was instant and spectacular. There was an internal fireworks display going off. I could literally feel all the tiny m. Falcipariums pop and go to hell there and then.
This is the actual story of an actual malaria infection. one of the most important features Diarrhea general weakness days you feel better days with high fever. Now you know.
Next. As you can see doctors labs are of limited value. malaria is very devious and erratic. The clinic did the best of a worst job it cost me 7500 birrs but I still gleaned important information. the malaria test was negative. a big issue which happens frequently be distrustful. 1000 of people are dead they do nothing and the parasite multplies exponentially. they go straight to the emergency room most of them die.
Why I use chlorine dioxide. that's all I had and I know it kills m. falciparium stone dead within the hour which it did. In Addis there is antimalarial medication available only in some hospital pharmacies. As there is no malaria here there's no market.
That was how I diagnosed and treated myself and beat The Grim Reaper.
Neddy
Lion of Judah