Hey everybody. I’m again in Portland, however all will not be nicely. I’m calling in sick this week. It’ll be a brief publish at this time. Every week in the past, I assumed life was good and nothing may go incorrect. Oh boy, I discovered life can hit you in sudden locations.
Meals poisoning
First, I bought meals poisoning in Thailand. I attempted too many bizarre meals and it caught up with me. It was in all probability the grilled jellyfish that did it. It gave me a bit of fever and I threw up on the way in which to the airport.
Missed flight
On the airport, Cathay Pacific refused to challenge our tickets to Hong Kong. We missed a flight section from Osaka to Tokyo beforehand. They mentioned our return tickets are invalidated. The remainder of our flight was with Air Canada. It was a large number.
I ought to have bought new tickets to Hong Kong and tried to work it out with Air Canada. I’m fairly certain it will have been high-quality. Mrs. RB40 flew residence from Japan and he or she didn’t have any drawback. Air Canada doesn’t have an workplace in Thailand and I couldn’t come up with them on the cellphone. Consequently, we missed our flight and I needed to guide a brand new flight residence.
Let me inform you, attempting to guide a last-minute flight ticket will not be enjoyable. All of the flight serps stored displaying me fake-out tickets. Once I tried to buy one thing, they’d say the fee couldn’t be processed. I feel the economic system seats had been offered out on all the standard routes. The major search engines confirmed these tickets, however they wouldn’t course of once I pressed the acquisition button. I checked the airline’s website immediately and noticed there have been no economic system seats left on these flights. It was aggravating.
Lastly, I discovered a flight on Qantas for $1,500 every. This was an costly lesson. My unhealthy.
Bug chunk?
At that time, my immune system was tousled from meals poisoning and I used to be wired. Guess what occurred subsequent.
Monday: I assumed I bought a bug chunk on my brow. It felt like a bee sting. My brow felt tingly, itchy, and a bit of numb. I attempted to disregard it.
Tuesday: I began a 30-hour journey residence on Tuesday morning. RB40Jr and I flew to Sydney, LAX, then Portland. The “chunk” regarded progressively worse. It blistered and grew. I assumed it should have been a tick or flea. I by no means had this type of response to a bug chunk.
Wednesday: I bought residence and went straight to pressing care. The supplier thought it is perhaps shingles. I mentioned no means. I simply bought the shingle vaccine 6 months in the past. Apart from, it wasn’t itchy like chickenpox. They took a swab and began me on antiviral tablets, simply in case.
Sadly, they had been proper. The lab got here again and it was optimistic for the varicella-zoster virus. Welcome to previous age, dumdum. Ugh! This is identical virus that causes chickenpox. After getting chickenpox, the virus stays in your system to reemerge as shingles whenever you’re previous.
Saturday: The shingles unfold to my left eyebrow and the bridge of my nostril. My eyelids are swollen and I can barely open my eyes. (I seem like I went just a few rounds with Apollo Creed.) I went to the pressing care once more and my eyes are okay, for now. That is scary. If shingles unfold to the eyeballs, it may trigger imaginative and prescient loss. It will possibly additionally trigger listening to loss if it spreads to the ears. I’d want to go to the ER if I’ve any imaginative and prescient or listening to points.
That’s it for now. I would like to remain residence and hope the antiviral tablets work their magic quickly. This sucks! Want me luck… Hopefull, I’ll be again to regular by the tip of subsequent week. Keep wholesome everybody.
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