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PROTRUDING




"So how long have you been going to his house?" The doctor asked.
Bella could not reply. It had been going on for a long time now since Seun got a new job and was earning more. She did not know how best to explain or relate the story to the doctor or her family members waiting outside for the result of the test.
" Please speak up dear if you want me to help you." The doctor calmly said while scrolling through something on his computer.
 It would have been easier to hide if not that her stomachs a bit fatter than normal, she never had a flat stomach anyway so it won't make any difference she thought.
  That diarrhea and vomiting, all these symptoms point to one thing.
She noticed the plague of rats in his abode and probably thought she could be suffering from Lassa fever which obviously those minor signs were not from Lassa fever. At least lassa fever or whatever they called it on the media was better than this.
 Can't these signs be ignored and something else diagnosed Bella thought.
"Food poisoning" the doctor resounded for Bella was lost in thoughts.
"Food what?" Bella asked.
"Your system has been exposed to unhealthy and unwholesome food for  quite a long period of time that explains all these symptoms. Seems you've been patronising fast food more than you cook Bella. What have you been eating?"
 Bella smiled. As a student, it was not uncommon to eat outside especially as Seun her neighbour worked in a fast food eatery and always brought left over food home which she shared with him.
" So its not the rats in Seun's house but the food your body system has been exposed to lately. Okay, Bella" the doctor called trying to get Bella's attention. "So leave Seun and the rats out of this okay. I'll prescribe some medications for you which you'll get at the pharmacy. For now, I want you to eat healthy, take fruits, drink lots of water and eat your home made food. Its not a pretty sight to see a young lady like you unable to efficiently cater for herself."
 "Okay thanks Doctor." Bella said absent mindedly with a smirk on her face as she took her prescriptions and left the doctors office.
 Probably this her protruding stomach was from the mountain of fufu and river of afang soup she ate before coming to the hospital

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