saturday

back in bangkok!

after a harrowing few days, i might add....

on thursday, jamie woke up feeling like his joints were aching. so we rested. then by the afternoon, he had a fever of 102. so we went to the doctor on koh chang. they gave him an IV (his 1st!) and some rehydration saline. then they did a CBC and found that he was negative for malaria and dengue fever. phew! THAT was good news. the docotr said he had some sort of bacterial infection and gave him some intravenous antibiotics. we went back to the hotel and rested. it was a little bit scary after that as well, when jamie had a really bad incessant headache, scaring me thinking about him having japanese encephalitis! one third of people with that die, one third are brain damaged, and i do not know what happens to the last 3rd. and there is no cure! so finally after much worrying and pain for jamie, we went to sleep.

he feels better now, but still has some bad tummy aching and what goes along with that. we plan on visiting with the US doctor upon our return to make sure there is no secondary infection.

well, after all that, we got on the ferry from koh chang to the mainland, and got on our bus to bangkok. it all was a little funny and we both had some suspicions about what was going on. everyone at the bus station but us got on these other buses, and we were held back to wait for this bus that showed up later and only had about 10 people on it. we got on anyway.

it was the WORST bus ride i have ever had. not only did the bus driver GET LOST and nearly take us to Cambodia, but he drove SO SLOW and he was in the process of learning to drive! he couldn't down shift! After realizing we had been lost we started looking at the map. we watched them take a 2nd wrong turn, so i went to show them the map and ealized they could not read a map at all, and now i am skeptical as to whether they could read period. so, it took us 10 hours to get to bangkok instead of 4-5 hours. the worst part of it was that this guy was going about 35-40 mph in traffic, instead of 80 like everyone else! it was like he had a knife in our chests and was slowly turning it. everyone on the bus was furious, when we got to bangkok, the bus wouldn't let us off where we all wanted and everyone started screaming at the drivers! AWFUL.

but today we went to the big weekend market, after first being dropped off at the mall by some dumb ass taxi driver. god, it can be very frustrating here! but the market was very cool and we had fun poking around and buying some presents and looking at stuff.

tomorrow we might go back, tonight we are not sure what is happening, probably just some relaxing and watching of the tv.

how do you guys like bush's plan to save the environment? i love the idea of replacing oil with coal, don't you? he's so smart!

well, we are outta here tomorrow night. it will be sad to go, but we are ready to be home esp with jamie feeling ill. looking forward to seeing trudy and sadie and steve!

bye!
love
jo and jamie