I had an intestinal parasite, which gratefully I never had to see. It caused me a lot of belly pain and (ahem) digestive symptoms, and the treatment made everything taste of metal for two weeks, so that wasn’t much fun either.
BUT, living parasite-free is something I will never take for granted. I revel in the glorious modernity of medicine, and I didn’t even have one of the really gruesome parasites.
