Today I had
a worm inside my foot. Yes, a worm. As if it was not enough there were also eggs!
Here goes the whole story.
During the morning me, the new German interns
and Edem “went to the moms”. We’re running a pilot about child sexual abuse and
the goal is to prevent child sexual abuse by breaking the taboo that exists
about sex and teaching the children that there are certain things that no one
is allowed to do with them. There is a book with some exercises that the moms
have to do with their children and them we visit them to monitor the progress
and to take key learning points.
When we
were at a mom’s house I felt something in my foot; it was just a fly as most of
the times. But when I looked at my foot carefully I saw a white thing under my
skin and a black spot. I thought I had been bitten by some sort of strange
animal so I started to squeeze it. Edem saw what I was doing and asked to take
a look:
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Ahahah
you have something growing inside you! Ah it’s nothing, don´t worry – He added
right after he saw the look on my face.
He said he was going to take care of it so we
walked back home. We disinfected the place in my foot and he cut it open! A
white thing came out right away. Disgusting!
Apparently this is some kind of flying insect
that bites only the hard parts of our skin; that’s why it usually happens in
people’s feet. This insect bites until it gets stuck under the skin. That’s
when it starts putting eggs all over! Edem says that it’s really important to
make sure that all the eggs are out when we cut it open otherwise worm will
continue growing under the skin.
I really hope we took all the eggs out…
28/08/2012
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