Even if you find a cure for the parasite, it will still leach itself to you for a few more years to come....eventually detatching but remaining within earshot and visual distance.... Still to wake you up when you finally fall asleep, demanding to be fed or changed.... eventually once it reaches 5 years or so it will leave home for a few hours only to return late afternoon to continue the cycle until it reaches a certain age and ventures out with other grouped cells to form a bond to run and get dirty, sweaty and return for a bath and rest. Usually at 18 years they venture out on their own in hopes of not returning, eventually finding a mate and multiplying....lmao