The bug that kissed me goodnight…
July 23rd, 2009 | 
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Now I know who’s the little guy who knocked me out! It’s the kissing bug! I kept on thinking what’s this bug’s name is. I saw this bug right after I woke up that unfortunate night and I flat it out using my sandal and blood splattered out on the wall. I also wrote an article about this a month before regarding a bug with a killer punch!
I repeatedly described it to my friends and relatives but they don’t know its name until I came across one article today that mentioned it and alas! I searched it in Wikipedia and this one hell of a bug is known as the kissing bug! yeah its right and the name really described it well. It will suck the living blood in you when your asleep and you’ll never noticed it until you wake up and you’ll felt itchy because like mosquito, you’ll never know your bitten until you feel the itch.
And from what I’ve researched, the infection caused my eyelid to swell like a golf ball, together with my left hand and several parts of my body.
Fortunately, I didn’t experience the disease that is exclusively on Central and South Americans, which is the Chagas Disease that this bug from hell brought. It swept havoc in several Central and South American countries and caused so many fatalities by the simple bite that caused infection. But it will not hurt me if I look for treatment in case.
Well, I just hope that it’s the last time that I’ll encounter this little fella.
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Hey Melvin,
I was reading across your blog and wanted to ask you something. Did you ever get tested for Chagas ? Because I know that many people will be reading your blog and the information here is inaccurate, the Chagas disease is not solely transmitted among Central and South Americans, it is the bug the one that transmit the disease and yeah, people in the US is at risk of getting this disease, so, my recommendation as part of the staff trying to prevent and treat Chagas disease is to get in contact with us if you are in the San Fernando Valley in California at 818 364 4287 or if you are in any other state go to your primary care physician and get your blood tested, we never know.
I am happy to share more information with you or others if that helps.
Salvador.
Hi Salvador! Unfortunately I’m not tested because the doctor that was assigned by my medical insurance was an Ophthalmologist, she was not even aware of what happened to me. The staff was so dumb that she assigned an Ophthalmologist instead of a Internal Medicine Doctor. I was only diagnosed for the swelling in my eyes with some medicines that I don’t even take because I know for a fact that it will go away.
I only happened to know the disease that this bug caused after more than a month that it happened when I researched on this, so I’m still pondering on having my blood tested.
Thanks for the comment Salvador!