Struck Down

25th January

The first night of sweating in Ady’s sleep was blamed on the air-con not working properly. After night two and a continual 48 hour headache, combined with the fact we’d stopped taking our malaria tablets 5 days ago, we feared the worst. A simple trip to the clinic turned into an all day affair at the hospital. Several tests later, Malaria was ruled out but Dengue Fever was suspected. Time to call the travel insurance as an admission into hospital was required.

Every cloud has a silver lining – at least Ady was admitted to the Bumrungrad, supposedly one of the world’s ten best hospitals. The place has to be seen to be believed. With more design features than a Phillipe Starke boutique hotel it was all we could do to refrain from taking some photos. Oh, the view from Ady’s private room is hard to beat and the city skyline at sunset is just stunning!

Hopefully this won’t delay our trip too much (we don’t want to lose our newly acquired suntans!), though we may have to skip an island or two in the south. At least now we’ll have time to update our blog and Sam can do lots of shopping!