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My Annual Hospital Visit

Posted by Stuart at 04:35 PM on March 18, 2008

I woke up Monday morning feeling a lot better than I was expecting. I was just a little stiff after the 38 mile bike ride, but it wasn't too bad. Surprisingly, my shoulders and wrists were more tender than my legs.

So the bike ride wasn't able to slow me down today, but I found something else that did: my annual case of food poisoning. I don't know how I got it, as I only ate at my favorite food shops yesterday, but by 7 PM I was running to the hong nam every half hour, and by 9 PM I was getting a second look at my dinner.

It's always the ah-chian that makes me finally make up my mind to go to the hospital. (It sounds better when you say it in Thai, doesn't it?) And again, the only good thing about getting food poisoning in Thailand is that I spent 20 minutes at the hospital and US$20 and I was on the way home to rest.

On the way home, I was feeling pretty miserable, and was a bit angry at myself for complaining about such a "little thing" like a stomach bug. What if I was really sick? Something more than a 20 minute / $20 problem?

I guess it was just a good reminder that the human body is quite fragile, really. Lately, I have been getting caught up in my 6 handwritten pages of "things to do" at my company and forget how tenuous everything really is.