Board Thread:Writer's Workshop/@comment-25891880-20150213234540

The headaches started at dawn and woke me up. I was feeling a heavy pounding in my head. It started to hurt a lot so I made my way downstairs to take some medicine, before I went to school. The pain surprisingly went away fast, so I had no trouble getting on the bus.

A few minutes before we got off the bus, the pain came back. It didn’t go away and it only got worse. I could feel it getting deeper and more the painful. During class, the headache hurt so much that I threw up. They sent me to the nurse and called my mother, so she took me home that day. Over the past few days, with the headache growing, I stayed home. My parents tried to help me and give me medicine but they were of no help.

How these headaches were not ceasing I did not know, especially since summer had just ended and it wasn’t flu season. I could not sleep, and I could not eat or drink without laying down the entire time. I was getting very tired of the headaches so I got my mother to take me to a doctor and figure out what was up with me. The doctor didn’t seem to know what was happening with me, though. I had no fever, no virus, and no other illness of any kind. I was getting really scared, I thought I will never be able to stop the headaches. The doctor recommended to my mother that I drink lots of fluids, rest in bed, and take Advil. Unfortunately, these did not help either. My parents were scared for me and the condition I was in, but I was more scared than they.

One morning, I started to sneeze a lot; which was no surprise to me, since my dad had mowed the lawn the other day. Then I saw something come out. I saw a few drops of blood and a tiny black bug. I thought it was a tick. I was startled when I saw it, then I sneezed a few more times, with more bugs coming out. I showed and asked my mother what was happening, then she took me to the hospital. The doctors there said I would have to get X-Rayed to find out why I was bleeding so suddenly, and most importantly, why there were bugs coming out of my nose. They took me into the room and had my head X-Rayed, then I waited out in the lobby for a few hours. After a while they called me in to see what was going on with my head. I went in to the room then I was startled at what I saw.

I could see thousands of bugs on the X-Ray picture, crawling all over my brain. It turns out they were not ticks or bugs, but parasites. They would come into the host’s brain by attaching into the head and digging inside. The parasites were considered “brain-eaters”. They would lay eggs, multiply, and consume billions of brain cells. They are also attracted to chlorine, saltwater, and extreme heat. The doctors told me I was one of millions to experience symptoms, because they were also attacking my nerve system and even my immune system.

So that raises the question here; do you know if you have brain-eaters in your head? Let me rephrase the question; have you ever come back to school from a long hot summer and forgotten almost half of what you’ve been taught the previous year?





-written by RynaTheBush  