6th March - Samui

With my Open Water course finished, I managed to get one of the last ferry tickets over to Samui.  Check in was at 5.30am and I finally arrived at the Bangkok Samui Hospital around 9.30am after haggling with taxi drivers who wanted 800 baht instead of the 150 baht it should have been.

Anyway, I found Si's room and entered to find him hobbling back from the toilet to his bed.   Oh bless, he looked very sweaty and uncomfortable  ...his drip was threaded his tshirt and down to his waist which seemed very odd.   As I was there, he decided to have a shower and change into the hospital pj's which for some odd reason have hundreds of ties on  ...very strange.

With blood pressure, temperature and blood test being taken on a regular basis, he's being looked after but I'm finding it strange that when they take his temperature and they say 'you have fever' that they don't give any paracetomol to him there and then.  Si has to ring a few minutes later to ask for them.  Even when his drip was nearly empty, we had to call, someone came in, looked, left and then someone else appeared to change the bag  ...doesnt seem to be very organised at all.

So, with blood pressure, temperature pretty steady, his platelets are dropping and only we've been advised that only when they're above 150 (now 104) that he can leave  ...as you can imagine, Simon is estatic!

The hospital food looks ok but for Si, it must be very boring, pasta & tofu.  I did order pizza delivery last night of which Si picked at the garlic bread, at least it was something.

There's not much happening here.   Si's watched a bit of TV,  tiny bits of UK work when he's feeling up to it and trying to sleep, which is a struggle because as soon as he tries, someone comes in to do his blood pressure and temperature  ....so he's not the happiest of bunnies.

This morning I went out to Tesco Lotus  ...to buy a few bits for him.  Mints for his breath, as he's not allowed to brush his teeth, just in case of a bleed and cartons of pineapple & orange juice, as that's all he fancied.

Jen
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