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Remember my flea ordeal?
Been feeling really ill for months-no energy, really down, fevered, stiff neck, joints, swollen glands, been to docs numerous times, told them about fleas etc, did blood work, came back with 'post viral syndrome' or 'stress'.
Now, I've lived through far more stressful times in my life and come away unscathed, so I've been doubting this and still felt I was carrying something else-although the idea that it was self-generated was really troubling in itself and frankly I was despairing.
Finally last week I decided to do online self diagnosis and thought back to when the problems started i.e, moving into that flat. What can fleas give you? Typhus. Symptoms of which fully correspond to how I've been feeling.
What do you need to treat typhus? A meagre 5 day course of antibiotics that are also used as an anti-malarial so thankfully very easy to get hold of online.
Self-source antibiotics and 5 days later I'm feeling 1000% better, fever, joint aches gone and actually have some energy.
Apart from feeling a bit let down by the Docs on this, I'm also feeling guilty about the settlement reached with Landlord which basically gave us our rent back on condition we didn't report him to the council.
As a matter of public health I probably need an official diagnosis too but I feel for the poor bastards in that flat now and would go back to docs to tell them this if it helped shut that fucker down.
What I'd like to know is if I do report him/typhus to the council will he be likely to counter-sue or claim back the money we recouped?