After Brian left the Sunday morning I went back to my
apartment and planned to be lazy for the whole of Sunday – plans that were
quickly ruined by a fellow student who knocked on my door and asked if I wanted
to go with them to the beach. “No thank
you I would much rather prefer you leave me alone and let me sleep” said my brain.
“Yes, sure. Why not?” was the quick response of my mouth. Stupid mouth, there
goes my game of hide and seek behind locked doors.
Lying on the beach my head got revenge on my mouth because I
started to feel dizzy and my head started spinning like the wheel caps of an
old Ford in Brakpan. I thought to myself “Self, this sun is a beast, or maybe I
should update my sugar register with a few slabs of chocolate.”….. HA HA HA
Apparently my head also did not like this idea because the
next moment it hit me with a big bang. Headache, nausea, headache, dizziness,
headache, feverish, headache, sore muscles and did I mention HEADACHE? So I
decided to go back to my flat and on my way there get some headache pills. I
got home and out of the blue a massive stairway appeared in front of me. I had
no idea how I would be able to get to the top without some ropes, harnesses and
a fellow mountain climber. (1 flight of
stairs with 15stairs …)
After what felt like a day’s journey to the top I finally got
to my room and dropped on the bed like a marathon runner that stepped into a
pothole. Slept for almost 2 hours woke up and booooom the feeling was back
again. Apparently it made friends while I was sleeping and decided to bring all
of them to party in my body. I decided not to join the party and went back to
sleep.
After 10 minutes (12 hours) my alarm went off and of course
it was Monday… I have to go to class and Boah (b!t$h of a headache) and her
little friends were still having their party in my drained body. And of course
Boah knew how to pick her party dates and time since I had to go to class today
- we had to go to a local school to observe “teaching in Thailand”.
Boah forced me to inform an Xploreasia employee that I’m
heading home after the show of “how to teach massive energy balls wrapped in
tiny little skins”. After 10 hours (1
hour) of class observation I went home and you just can guess what I did???????
SSSSLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPP!!
That night one of the students came to my room
and said Brian wants to talk to me on Skype. Finally got Skype started, and spoke
to Brian. I said ‘’ Dude I’m dying ‘’ or as close to it as you can get I guess.
He told me to drink loads of water and eat because he thought I might have sunstroke.
The next day Boah
again decided to throw a massive party in my head, I was also burning out of my
skin – and it was not due to my hotness. Haha. No a massive fever got hold of
me. That night I told Brian that I am
really feeling terrible. He quickly organized with his sister to sort stuff out
with our insurance and I was admitted almost immediately to hospital. (Bangkok
International)
Millions of tests were done – and a funny Thai doctor man
dude touching me. I was given a room
that was better equipped than any 5 star hotel you can think of. Brian will
tell you more about the hospital since I just slept most of the time and was
not really observing much – Boah and bouts of fever constantly attacked me. What I do know is that they told me that I had
Dengue Fever. It is Malaria like virus also transmitted by mosquitoes. Here is
some more information on Dengue Fever: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dengue_fever
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