We had a “team
building” event on Thursday which involved a few outdoor games and I got
dragged into the tug of war.
Going home
Friday I felt a bit tired – assumed I may have been affected by de-hydration or
after effects of the team building – but later in the evening my stomach
started to feel a bit "over full".
I could still
feel a bit bloated on Saturday and spent the day mostly asleep. As it hadn't
cleared by Sunday I went to the Bangkok Pattaya Hospital.
First a “muscle
doctor” checked me but concluded it wasn’t muscle related so was sent to
another section. They prodded around, gave me an X-Ray and scan and determined
I had a colon infection – the technical term is Diverticulitis.
I was told
that they thought this could be cleared by anti-biotics but that they wanted to
keep me in hospital for observation. As the consequences of the anti-biotics
not working would be a trip to the slicing and dicing department I figured I’d
best go along with this.
A drip feed
was connected to the needle/injection point that they’d put in my left hand and
I was admitted to a room on the tenth floor which had a helpful sticker on the
door saying” nil by mouth”.
About every
two hours a nurse would take my blood pressure, temperature and pulse – and sometimes
pipe in another bottle of antibiotics on the drip feed line.
Monday I was
allowed three solid meals of soup.
Showering
with one hand gloved up attached to the drip isn’t a barrel of laughs but I
managed.
Tuesday I was
taken off the drip and allowed soft food – mashed potatoes being a prominent
feature – along with fish and things that had been minced. The stomach pain at
least seemed to have gone.
Wednesday was
more of the same – and finally at about 4.00 pm today they let me out with a load
of oral antibiotics and an appointment to see them again Tuesday.
