too scary

a friend has recently been diagnosed with malaria, after holidaying in mozambique. he's been in hospital for 6 days now, but they only noticed the disease on his 5th blood test, so was only admitted into hospital after about 4 days of symptoms and pain already. he says its the most awful thing he's ever been through, and thats rather a lot; that it hands down beats the experience of 10 days of dysentry in a foreign country with no money, must mean its pretty horrid. god its scary stuff, with potential relapses and serious consequences; damn wikipedia gave me the full run down. so big get wells to him, especially since hospital food sucks so badly, as does being woke up at crack of dawn for baths, never mind the terrifyingly real danger of a serious disease. shit i hope its over soon.