How long has it been?
A week perhaps, since my last post. The absence was due to, as you may have already read from Hans’ previous post, a high fever that I had. Anyway, I was admitted for observation in the hospital! The cause of it is unsure but, as the doctor said, that it was due to a little bit of everything. Everything started off with the seasonal allergies, stress related (remember the eye twitching post last week?), lack of sleep, blood donation and I caught a cold from the rainy weather lately. So, all of that combine = an alarming high fever that they thought it may have been the H1N1 flu!
How high was the fever??? I thought I was on FIRE even though I was in an air conditioned room set to 24C. An hour of draining the heat in the shower at 3AM didn’t help much! Pretty much I get admit to the hospital few hours after that… yup
As a result… Quarantined !!! It wasn’t as bad as it sounds, but it was sure boring! The first day… OMG!!! test test test, examine examine examine… as much exhausted as I already was… now that I had to deal with all the screening! To make sure that if it were H1N1 or not.
After the admittance, I must have slept about 20+ hours to wake up and thought it was just the evening of the same day. That was some rest! The fever was lower than the day before, but I was told to stay put until the resulted of the screening come back which took days! Nothing to do, apparently, my family brought my backpack and there was no PHONE! sigh. A life without phone is like a life without connection, without hearing words from or be able to text Matilde was worse than the fever itself!
So what to do? Fortunately instead of staring at the ceiling all day, I get to study “How to speak Portuguese” because that was the only thing that left in my backpack. Read, fell asleep, eat, read some more, sleep some more, eat some more… repeat that for a few days! But during all those times, my imagination went wild! Have you ever dream in language that you don’t even know how t0 speak yet? I think I dream in Portuguese during my stay there. That was some fever, got my brain thinking that I can understand Portuguese already.
The only time that I got out from the hospital was for the TAN network opening that involved my cousin’s sis being the MC for the event and that the Prime Minister of Thailand was the honored guest speaker for the event. I must have gave the doctor a hard time just to sign me out for 3 hours release, sounds like a boarding school!. That 3 hours of freedom was good, get to see PEOPLE again and the best part was…. I got to eat REAL FOOD!!! Well, that didn’t last very long as I had to return back for final observation.
Finally, got released… the first thing I did was…. look for my phone! Amazingly, the phone didn’t die. I guess iPhone can stay idle for days. I was surprise because normally I had to recharge day by day from my daily use, browsing, itunes… etc! Missed call and unread SMS! Matilde! It was a great to finally get to hear her lovely voice after days of observation!!!
Okie… back to our blog
This was taken last night, after a day of staying home resting… I just had to get out to get some “not so fresh air” in the Bangkok. So I was off to the Victory Monument Bangkok that I must have not seen it for the pass 10 years! I was hoping for it to rain so I can try to get some wet looks of the city but… nope! There, I met another photographer who was shooting at the monument as well so we share some shots with each other… and WOW I was amazed at his picture using 20 seconds of open exposure! Unfortunately, I didn’t bring my tripod with me.
Oh well, got to prepare better next time.
