Me and My Protozoa

Breaking news!

I DO HAVE A PARASITE!

I know this is not commonly said, but: "I'm so happy I have a parasite!"

It appears that my recent diagnosis of ulcerative colitis may not be correct after all.

I can't believe the nurse practitioner who counseled me didn't even want to do stool samples, even though I told her I was pretty sure I had a parasite and HAD had one for probably almost a year.

It shouldn't be a big deal. Antibiotic treatment. The kind of cool, except for the fact that it's in my body, thing about this particular protozoa (blastocytis hominis) is that it can actually carry diseases from animals to humans. I think that's pretty impressive. Now I just need to figure out if there is a particular kind of mad cow disease that makes one eat pizza all the time (anorexia is one of the potential symptoms of infection with this parasite, and we KNOW I don't have that! lol).

You can see a photo of my protozoa (well not mine, but a relative) here in the blog.

VC

PS: Went to the orthodontist to check on invisalign. He wanted $6500 (and that was after giving me a discount because he was a Persian Jew, so we had a lot in common...kind of). That is SO not going to happen, right now.