So I called the pharmacy right away, knowing that dehydration is the #1 immediate concern for diarrhea. The next day, I oscillated between riding out major stomach cramps, racing to the toilet, and feeling too faint to stand much. Or maybe it was just time and my stomach could no longer handle the amoebas. I wondered if the jagua water had triggered that cleanout in me and later found out that it is indeed known to loosen bowels. It hurt to sleep any other way than on my back. It seemed like everything was coming out of me. And just as I’d decided to REST for real, that entire night every hour I had to race to the bathroom. After naturally preparing it, I drank tons of it while PROMISING myself to rest for the next few weeks. My body strongly craved jagua juice (jagua fruit soaked in water). On the day I was crossing the border back, my stomach began to grumble. A random set of feeling-sick-symptoms which I wrote off to just doing too much at the same time on little fuel. Then just before going into Haiti from the Dominican Republic, I caught a very weird two-day cold followed by an even weirder eye infection coupled with weeks of fatigue.
I’d been moving around the island on very little sleep or rest and thus eating out more than usual. I thought maybe it was the new bed I was sleeping in, an autoimmune flare-up, and/or the many things I’d been busy doing for weeks.
For weeks, I felt extra joint inflammation and random pains around my body.
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