3-in-1

I should have written this when I was still in hospital bed, I didn’t really sleep whole day, but I kinda constrained myself from using this little laptop simply to avoid accusations from people who really couldn’t understand why I still look happy and strong while I was hit by 3 illnesses in one time. Yeah, guests kept coming and kept doubting me.

Won’t complain much about what people think of me. So, those 3 illnesses are dengue fever, typhoid and chikungunya.

5 days before I checked myself to doctor, I had a continuously up&down fever. Not sure how high it was, cos there’s no thermometer around me. Apart from fever, I had diarrhea, whole body aching, joints pain, and painful eye socket.
Anyway, I thought it was common flu until I went for blood test, which indicate that my leukocyte and thrombocyte level were dropping – this to show positive dengue fever and chikungunya, and also Widal test showing I was infected by Salmonella family – confirmed I had typhoid fever. All these diseases have similar symptoms, unless blood test was done, it is quite hard to pinpoint; but I guess I won all the prizes.
What are the causes? Dengue fever and chikungunya are transmitted by Aedes mosquitoes. While typhoid is transmitted by the ingestion of food or water contaminated with feces from an infected person. Damn, it sounds so yucky, but it is so common in Indonesia.
The treatments at hospital were antibiotic injections, vitamins injections, non-stop IV injection and gallons of water. Really effective, I was fully recovered within 4 days of treatment. Now I am fully free from dengue fever and chikunguya, but still need to have 1-month-diet of soft baby food to comfort my intestine from typhoid’s impact.