I've been googling information about my sickness. I can't find the names of the two amoebae, but I have two. One is bad. I have two. Anyway, I can't find their names (getting repetitive enough for you yet?) but I did look up the drug I'm taking to get rid of them. And you know what??
It causes cancer!!
The doctors didn't tell me this.
"Metronidazole is listed by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) as a potential human carcinogen. Although some of the testing methods have been questioned, it has been shown to cause cancer in experimental animals.[4] Nevertheless, it appears to have a fairly low potential for cancer risk and under most circumstances the benefits of treatment outweighs the risk." -- Wiki
So it's not really something I need to be fretting over, but it's another side effect to an already long list. Metallic taste (which I'm definitely getting), numbness, liver problems. And I can't touch a drop of alcohol, not even Listerine, else I'll be puking instantly.
Brent keeps offering me beer. It's getting irritating.
... but mostly gratuitous ego-boosting
1 comment:
Told you it was probably intestinal amoebas. If you want to know more, Grandma has some experience with them. And Dad. And Uncle Ed. And Grandpa but he's dead.
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