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Meggy

Visit to Hospital

7/6/2013

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Today I am not feeling well because I had a high temperature and I vomited in the night so I had to go to hospital which is also the Doctors.  Daddy took me there but no one spoke English so it was hard for daddy.  I could have had malaria.  

Malaria is a sickness that comes from mosquitoes.  You can’t pass it on to any one else, only mosquitoes can.  It is the most deadly disease in Africa.  We all take malaria tablets everyday.  

But I didn’t have malaria and the doctors didn’t know for sure so I had to have a malaria test and they had to test my blood so they put a needle in my finger and it really hurt because they put hand sanitiser on it and that made it sting a lot. 

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Then I was given a form and they spelt my name wrong, they spelt it MIG.  The result of the test was “Negativo” which means negative in Portugese.  
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We walked back to the hotel and there was a big wedding for the Mozambique President’s daughter.  We bought some cashew nuts from this girl.
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5 Comments
Rob Brown
7/10/2013 08:58:21 pm

Hope you are feeling better now Mig (oops Meg).

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Meggy
8/4/2013 06:11:43 pm

Hello. I was only sick for a day but we decided to rule out malaria while we were in the big city because they had a hospital there

Love from Mig

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Dinny
7/11/2013 10:21:54 pm

SOOOOO glad you are ok Meggy - Malaria is not a nice thing to have - take care - Dinny xxx

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Mig
8/4/2013 06:12:48 pm

I was lucky it wasn't malaria even though I did have some mosquito bites. Not all Mosquitos have malaria

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Lizzy Marsland
8/6/2013 08:36:53 pm

Im glad your ok Meg, sounds like going to the hospital was a bit of an adventure too, you were very brave. X




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    Hello my name is Meggy Shepherd.  I am 10 years old.  I love Elephants they are AWESOME!!!  I live in New Zealand Mount Vic.  I go to a school called Clyde Quay.  At my school there are my friends: Saskia, Sabine, Sophie, Amy and lots of others.

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