Thailand. Being Sick in Thailand. All part of the Journey.

Well today has been a slow day as I have not been in the best of health. Last night I ate nothing out of the ordinary or even from a different shop that I have never bought from before.

I ate “Suki Moo” or another words a pork soup and vegetables. I have eaten this many times and a few times ended up with slight diarrhea but maybe because of the amount of chili sauce I have added to it.

You see here in Thailand you can always blame the street vendor food as the culprit and not just a stomach bug or god forsaken something you did that was unhygienic and made you sick.

So I am blaming the soup from last night as this morning I had diarrhea really bad and it continued through the morning at school and has also kept up until now. I ate some plain steamed rice at lunch and an ice-cream for lunch and apart from that it’s been water.

After school I went to the park to exercise as usual and I only managed 4 laps with my friends before I had to give in and head home with my tail between my legs. I arrived home and took some medicine and then headed for bed at 5:45pm. I got out of bed to go to the toilet and that was it.

I got up at 9pm and have done a little bit of reading of friend’s blogs on the internet and then a quick update on my blog.

I am going to head back to bed now and take a few more tablets and hopefully sleep well and not have to make too many trips to the bathroom.

This is part of the fun living in a far away placein a third world country eating foods that are prepared at totally different health standards to back in our home countries.

I have had “Bali Belly” as they call it and it was a horrible experience during one of my trips to Indonesia, I was scared to be more than 5 metres away from a toilet and couldn’t bring myself to even have a beer. That’s how crook I was!

One place I didn’t get ill was traveling in Japan as the food was of very high quality but so much more expensive than here in Thailand. Japan was insanely expensive but probably the best country I have visited.

So this is what happens with 20 baht food at times ($0.80 cents Australian). As the saying goes you get what you pay for and if I wasn’t so lazy I could cook at home but for the prices of buying I cannot be bothered with the preparation and cleaning up. I have to change this lazy attitude. I can cook, well a little bit. Noot can cook really well. This is something we need to discuss and see if we can fit into our busy lifestyles.

Well, to all a goodnight and hope that you are all well.

Brunty