Showing posts with label Malaria Watch. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Malaria Watch. Show all posts

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Malaria Watch: Monsoon Edition!

Week 1 Malaria Watch: Monsoon Edition!
Like most people I have been taking extra precautions to ensure I am not bitten and infected with Malaria during the Monsoon season. These precautions include:
·     *  Not leaving the house. Ever
·      * Dressing head to toe in clothes, ensuring no area of the body is uncovered – think Ninja/ woman in a Burka
·      * Spraying myself, everything and everyone around me with creatively named repellents such as;  ‘Buzz Off’ ‘Mosquito Gone’ and ‘Moz Away’
·      * Arming myself with one of those surprisingly entertaining electrified tennis racquet's which instantly kills bugs on contact (this is also fun for electrocuting your husband)
However all of these precautions went out of the window when we decided to hit Bandra on Saturday night! The legs were out, the perfume was on and the electrified tennis racket was deemed inappropriate.
It was during the hours of 3.30am-4.10am whilst waiting for a taxi/ travelling home in the taxi/ arriving home in the taxi I was again bitten, not once, not twice but three times on the right leg (this seems to be the leg preferred by Mosquitoes)! Oh how I wish I would have worn jeans!

Monday, May 30, 2011

Week ? Malaria Watch

Week I've lost count: Malaria Watch: My Vipassana experience has done nothing for my love of Mosquitos! I still hate them, as in Hitler, Bin Laden and the song 'Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" hate!

Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Week 3- Malaria Watch

I can’t believe it! I have been so concerned with my polluted, Potassium Permanganate-less (thanks travel bug) water that I have neglected Week 3 of Malaria watch! Apologies, not only to my readers but to myself!
Week 3: Malaria Watch! : No bites present, (just scars from where I kept scratching them) I suppose now it’s a waiting game…
Phew! Glad thats back on track!

Sunday, April 17, 2011

Week 2- Malaria Watch!

Week 2: Malaria Watch! : My leg looks like a game of dot-to-dot! 
Not only extremely unattractive but they itch like hell!!

Monday, April 11, 2011

Just like Spring/ Autumn/ Winter Watch but not

Malaria is no laughing matter, especially when you haven’t taken any medication to prevent it. On Friday 8th May 2011 between the hours of 7.00pm and 1.30am the following day, I received my first ‘Indian’ bite from one of those pesky mosquitoes, so I am officially launching Malaria Watch! I think it is necessary!  

Week 1: Malaria Watch! : The bite is big and itchy. No fever but do have headache- I think this is from the bottle of wine I drank earlier though, not said bite. End. 

Join me weekly for the latest symptoms, irritations and pains in……Malaria Watch!

My leg looks more normal than this is real life. Promise.