The Malaria MosquitoCopyright © 1997 Property of Deborah K. Fletcher for Florence MacLennan Brown. All rights reserved.One of my few bad memories of Nova Scotia was that it was there that I was bitten by the mosquito which gave me malaria. My malaria came back to me many times when I was a girl, and a young woman. I had to take quinine tablets for the terrible chills and fever. One day, when I was in high school, I was so sick with the malaria that I was sent home. I was a proud young lady, and very strong-willed. Even though there were telephones in the area where I lived, and my father actually had an automobile, I refused to call him away from his work to give me a ride. I walked the three or five miles home, on an already warm day, with a malarial fever. Please View and Sign My Guestbook © 1998-2000 Debbie Fletcher, joiya@tcia.net
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