Any news on your dear friend?
She hasn’t been bending backwards, has she?
Sounds like very possibly that sand-flea egg is the issue. After all, it’s near her spine?
She is going to go to a specialist at UCLA for tropical diseases. She is taking 12 meds against the infestation of fleas internally but they are still internal and I will spare you the gory details. She may not have tetanus but she is definitely quite ill.
I never even knew about sand fleas before.