Unexplainable
While he was initially told that doctors suspected colon or pancreatic cancer, a rare bacterium would now ‘eat’ him from the inside. For a long time it was uncertain what caused Geert’s physical condition. ‘What explains why my body is having such a hard time?!’, Geert writes on Facebook. ‘What explains why I have failure in my muscles and brain?! Don’t eat any food, blood values continue to drop, inflammatory values rise and physically continue to lose weight?! What explains the intense pains?!”
Eaten from the inside
After many examinations, scans and biopsies, he was diagnosed with a very rare bacteria. ‘According to the doctors, it is so rare and untraceable for a well-learned pathologist that the chance of winning the jackpot at the Staatsloterijshow should be even greater.’ But the doctors also found a parasite that only occurs in tropical places. ‘A parasite that literally eats you from the inside. From the beginning I also told the doctors that it felt like I was being eaten inside, like bugs were crawling under my skin, through my body and through my head, causing inflammation after inflammation in many places in my body… a strange and very painful feeling.’
