So apparently, there is this little skinny fish that is attracted to warmth. If you pee, it flows up the stream of pee into your bladder. Monet and I were wishing someone had warned us... after a long boat ride, masato, and beer. We went to huiririma where the family of colette and mosolo (lab techs) live to swim and chat. I returned and asked Padre Jack what the treatment was. He told the story of a woman who came in last month who was pregnant and felt something moving in her bladder. The ultrasound confirmed that is was indeed a fish in there! They put a foley in and then pulled it out the next day. Soon after, she pushed a 4 inch fish out of her urethra. Another man had a fish skeleton removed from his bladder after having lots of bleeding. We were not reassured after his stories, although he says it would have been very painful had a fish swam into our bladders. Then, serendipitously, a 2 year old child came in and her mom said that something had swam up here.... Let's hope we got lucky!
On an better note, we sat with a family in their house on stilts and chatted, and they shared sugar cane, coconuts, limon, and masato with us. We then swam and took a canoe down river. It was surreal to be in the middle of dense foliage, with the sun lighting up the sky under a layer of clouds. We laughed and chatted about the Ob/Gyne, Rheumatologist, and Ophthomologist coming to town next week. All in all a great little outing.
Toni
I saw this on Grey's Anatomy and didn't believe it was real! Wow!
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