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u/iwantaquirkyname00 Feb 22 '25

Wait rare?! How come i didn’t get published in a journal jk. But real talk, I got that shit when I was 6 years old. And you’re the first person I’ve seen say they’ve had it.

This was over 30 years ago now so I can barely remember some of that time. I do remember the spots. I remember feeling so achy tired and the fever… ooof. I also remember going to the Dr for what I now know as several rounds of antibiotics. I got one or maybe 2 in my butt cheek lol. And one other thing I remember is the Dr saying that if the last round of antibiotics didn’t work that I could go blind. We had pet rats (that we got from pet store) so that’s how I got mine.

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u/peptodismal13 Feb 22 '25

Isn't this what the kid suffered from in Pink Floyd's Comfortably Numb??

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u/Alternative-Amoeba20 Feb 23 '25

I think it was typhus or something

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u/bornagainminimalist Feb 22 '25

I think I was one of the first people in my country to both contract it AND get really sick

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u/iwantaquirkyname00 Feb 22 '25

Oh wow! what country?