Leptospirosis

[willowbank]

Wishing you a speedy recovery, thanks for posting a warning to us all.

very best,

Willowbank.

 

[ChesterP]

Thanks Chaps.

Only just back at work part-time after 3 weeks off and very sleep deprived but recovering!

 

[Ooops]

Only just back at work part-time after 3 weeks off and very sleep deprived but recovering!

Chester, its great to hear that you've also turned the corner and the your way to a full recovery

Real world reminders like these are always very useful and these in particular have helped me refocus on the importance of the basics when out and about so many thanks for posting your experiences

 

[patrickt]

Hello Paul, just reading the new threads on this matter. I presume like everyone else on this site I have spoken to friends about your experience. At this time of year when we all gather at the pheasant shoot and bag wheat in the Farm yards. It is especially relevant, as a result I have put up a warning notice outside the pheasant Pen using your experience, and advising on precautionary methods to reduce/remove the risk of leptospirosis

Like all of us before we wish you a full and speedy recovery, and once again many thanks for sharing your experience with us all, and I feel certain that you will have prevented some of us contracting this awful disease

Very best wishes

Patrick

 

[ChesterP]

Thanks Patrick. Whilst I thought that I was fit for work, I have been having several more sleepless nights with abdominal pain and the headaches have returned, so it appears that this is not going to be a swift recovery. I am only working part time as too exhausted to do very much. Any warnings that can be shared will be worth-while if only it prevents one case. I have received a few private comments about perhaps carelessness, or being just unlucky because there are so few reported cases these days. Irrespective of the wheres and whyfores, it's happened, I'm ill, and I can only hope that it's proven a salutary lesson. It certainly has to me. A factor in my case was that I was already poorly from an unrelated illness beforehand, and having a low immune system probably had a lot to do with me not being able to fight it off as I might normally have done. It is still widespread, irrespective of how few reported cases there are, because you only really hear about the serious cases and not the many more where people just come down with cramps, perhaps headaches and short lived flu like symptoms, recover and think no more about it.

I hope that everyone has an enjoyable and fruitful shooting season ahead this autumn/winter and that everyone stays healthy!