Very short and quick attempt at Lazy Writers thing for this month...

“Tropical Parasite.”  Said the doctor holding up the tube, where suspended in the preserving solution was a worm about 30cm long.  “Isn’t it a beauty?” The doctor said admiring it.  I didn’t think beauty was quite the word I would use to describe the thing that had lived off me for a good month or so.    

“This is no doubt what’s been causing your bowel problems.”  I took the tube out of the doctor’s hands and looked at the creature within.  It had been living inside me, practically having a party, doing all sorts of funny things to my bowel movements.  No sooner had I come through customs, passport still in hand, had I needed to dash to the nearest public toilet.  I didn’t realise until afterwards that there was no toilet paper, and having to ask a stranger in the next cubicle if she would mind passing me some toilet paper under the door was one of the more humiliating things I have had to do in life, minus of course boxing a ‘tropical parasite’ I had just excreted and taking it to the doctors.  Getting it into the box had been an interesting experience in itself.  I had been terrified, and you would have been too, I threw away the bacon tongues afterwards.  Just thinking about it makes me want to crawl into a small dark hole. 

“We’ll have to do a few more checks on you now, don’t want to let you out only to infect someone else.”  The doctor’s face was reassuring.

“So I’m not going to die or anything?”  I asked remembering the itching feeling I had in my gut the night before. 

“Oh no.  Mind you, with all the trouble you’ve been having don’t you think your coming in was a little overdue?  It’s been what, a month or so since you came back off your holiday in the Amazon.”

“Yes well, I thought maybe I was just eating too much fibre or something.  Change of diet maybe.  The itching was a bit weird but…” I stopped, cheeks flushed.  “I didn’t really think to come in to the doctors until yesterday of course, when…” I trailed off.  Mentioning it again might just kill me so I let the doctor fill in the gaps. 
The tests showed i was now parasite free, thank goodness.  My bowels are now behaving like they should and as for the parastie itself, the doctors have kept it as a specimen for medical students.