humanrising
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I was just reading a thread by someone who said they had three trips to India before they got sick. Noticing a lot of people mentioning they traveled to India before they got ill.
I lived in Nepal for 7 months on a college study program I created. I lived with Nepalese families. I tried to be careful what I ate and drank but really it was impossible. Both Nepal and India are extremely difficult to avoid getting ill with dysentery or other food borne illness.
I also had the usual load of vaccines before I left. I lost almost 30 pounds got amebic and bacterial dysentery at least 9 times and of course had all the serious meds to deal with it.
I bounced back well when I came home. went to India for 3 months a couple years latter same as Nepal health wise and yes I went back again another year latter for "wash rinse and repeat". I love this part of the world and since I was able to recover my heath when I came home each time I didn't worry about it too much. I was a bit naïve about chronic illness and what could happen by all I was exposing myself to.
I was such a healthy outgoing adventurous person who loved traveling and volunteering ( really wanted to work for an NGO in a developing country) so I thought that as long as I did all I could to take good care of myself I would be ok. I really didn't see my self ever falling apart bit by bit until I was ruined like this. I had a few moments when I "saw god" while sick in Nepal and India but even when I was so ill I was "out of body" I didn't see it being long term, I would get better or maybe not but oddly I never imagined me having a long term illness. ...seems stupid now but its difficult to imagine something you have little knowledge of and all that youthful positive excitement about the world.
Ron Davis's son went to India and did photography before he was ill, Jennifer from unrest went to China.
made me wonder how many of us might have traveled out of the country before we got sick... even if it took a few years before we got sick, how many of us got "loads" of vaccines and even how many of us are the adventurous outgoing individuals ……. that so many people appear to be here?
I lived in Nepal for 7 months on a college study program I created. I lived with Nepalese families. I tried to be careful what I ate and drank but really it was impossible. Both Nepal and India are extremely difficult to avoid getting ill with dysentery or other food borne illness.
I also had the usual load of vaccines before I left. I lost almost 30 pounds got amebic and bacterial dysentery at least 9 times and of course had all the serious meds to deal with it.
I bounced back well when I came home. went to India for 3 months a couple years latter same as Nepal health wise and yes I went back again another year latter for "wash rinse and repeat". I love this part of the world and since I was able to recover my heath when I came home each time I didn't worry about it too much. I was a bit naïve about chronic illness and what could happen by all I was exposing myself to.
I was such a healthy outgoing adventurous person who loved traveling and volunteering ( really wanted to work for an NGO in a developing country) so I thought that as long as I did all I could to take good care of myself I would be ok. I really didn't see my self ever falling apart bit by bit until I was ruined like this. I had a few moments when I "saw god" while sick in Nepal and India but even when I was so ill I was "out of body" I didn't see it being long term, I would get better or maybe not but oddly I never imagined me having a long term illness. ...seems stupid now but its difficult to imagine something you have little knowledge of and all that youthful positive excitement about the world.
Ron Davis's son went to India and did photography before he was ill, Jennifer from unrest went to China.
made me wonder how many of us might have traveled out of the country before we got sick... even if it took a few years before we got sick, how many of us got "loads" of vaccines and even how many of us are the adventurous outgoing individuals ……. that so many people appear to be here?
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