MarkTheSpark
Senior Member
I fly-fished a local lake on Thursday last week. The river floods had, briefly, overflowed into it. There were a few occasions - biting through nylon, etc - when whatever was on my hands reached my mouth.
Now, I always thought dysentery was severe diarrhea. I now know it's not. Believe me, you don't want what I've got. I'm now on super-strength antibiotics, in real pain, blood emanating from a southerly orifice, and I'm not even close to being out of the woods. If it's amoebic dysentery, I'll be in an isolation ward in hospital. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the tests, and my legs crossed for everything else.
When rivers are in flood, sewage works let the dilution do their work for them, and let untreated waste into rivers. It's not hard to work out where that can lead.
Please, folks, avoid hand to mouth contact while fishing and carry some hand sanitiser, especially before tucking into your sarnies. The irony is that my fly fishing bag has a bottle of the stuff and I didn't use it. Now I know what the alternative feels like, I will be using it from now on....
Now, I always thought dysentery was severe diarrhea. I now know it's not. Believe me, you don't want what I've got. I'm now on super-strength antibiotics, in real pain, blood emanating from a southerly orifice, and I'm not even close to being out of the woods. If it's amoebic dysentery, I'll be in an isolation ward in hospital. I'm keeping my fingers crossed for the tests, and my legs crossed for everything else.
When rivers are in flood, sewage works let the dilution do their work for them, and let untreated waste into rivers. It's not hard to work out where that can lead.
Please, folks, avoid hand to mouth contact while fishing and carry some hand sanitiser, especially before tucking into your sarnies. The irony is that my fly fishing bag has a bottle of the stuff and I didn't use it. Now I know what the alternative feels like, I will be using it from now on....