Malaria Nearly Killed Me, But Running Saved My Life | Prav Patel

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Sports, Health & Fitness, Running, Fitness

9.7 • 254 Ratings

🗓️ 4 December 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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The Running Channel Meets is where we talk to real runners with incredible stories. Each episode we speak with people who inspire us to run, and give our guests an opportunity to tell their stories, often for the first time.

Doctors told Prav that running probably saved his life as his running fitness was crucial to his survival. In a two-month hospital stay at North Manchester General Hospital in 2023, Prav Patel overcame a bout of malaria that was three times over the severe infection rate, a rare disease called Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH) and COVID. Less than six months after being discharged, Prav was taking on a host of gruelling running challenges to raise money in aid of the hospital that saved his life.

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Prav runs for the Manchester Foundation Trust Charity: https://www.justgiving.com/page/byron-day-1704569695291

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0:00.0	Prav Patel had levels of malaria classed as three times more than the severe infection
0:10.0	rate. He spent 36 days in North Manchester General Hospital. 22 those days were spent in intensive care.
0:17.4	Doctors say that running saved his life, but there were other things that Prav learnt throughout this experience too. This is TLCMeets where we meet incredible runners
0:25.0	with amazing stories. There's a knock at your front door. You're delirious. It's the
0:34.3	paramedics. You didn't call them and you don't realize that they're there for you.
0:41.5	What's going on?
0:44.6	I thought it was an Amazon parcel.
0:49.7	To be honest.
0:51.3	I stumble out of bed after watching, I don't know what, on TV.
0:55.9	And I opened the door, three paramedics are there and I'm like, what on earth?
0:59.7	I think I was just watching like Guardians of the Galaxy or something earlier on.
1:02.7	So I was absolutely tripping balls.
1:06.8	Welcomed him in, asked them if they wanted a cup of tea.
1:09.3	Still had no reason, idea why they were there.
1:12.7	And then they started to ask me some really basic questions.
1:16.9	And then I sat down and I was unable to answer them.
1:22.5	So it was things like what my day to birth was.
1:34.6	Asking me to spell my name and where I'd gone on holiday where I'd just come back from. And I honestly just was, it was on the tip of my tongue.
1:43.2	Yeah. I just couldn't say it.
1:45.3	And at what moment, can you remember like looking at their facial expressions?
1:50.6	Or like at what moment did it hit?
1:53.0	Okay, maybe there is something wrong.
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