Back on my feet

After a week of going to the hospital every night to have my toes tortured by Thai nurses I was finally free of the bandages on Sunday.

However - not wishing to let an opportunity go to waste - the doctors gave me another course of antibiotics.
It seems that part of the cause of the original infection is something to do with my skin and probably a low level between toes infection that flared up when opportunity presented itself.

With the bandages off am now figuring how to walk without a limp again. It was exceedingly painful at times and the area of infection was quite red but at least there's some skin on it and it's starting to settle down. I was able to go for my first swim in two weeks last night.

It's a good job I'm not in the caompany's Indian office any longer as sandals were against the dress code - Thailand is a bit more relaxed about such things.

Rainy season getting into swing here in Pattaya - Beach Road was like a river on Wednesday night and had to wade through foot deep water.

Yesterday afternoon the gap between my toes on the left foot second toe from the left started to hurt - or feel inflamed. Looks like I must have picked up an infection as today it was just a mass of dead wet skin and seeping puss.

Not a pretty sight.

So went to hospital tonight. After an hour or so of various nurses taking a look and checking I had all the right forms (you'd think I'd never been there before) a doctor came along and cleaned it up and scraped off the dead skin. He started without anesthetic but decided he'd better use a local one as having the skin scraped off from between your toes is a mite painful.

They've given me some pain killers and antibiotics - have to go back tomorrow for a fresh dressing. Trouble is also can hardly walk as a result of the bandaging of that and a couple of toes on my right foot they did also.

Have also been told to wear open shoes. I wear sandals most of time anyway so at least that's not a problem.