Hey everybody. I’m again in Portland, however all isn’t nicely. I’m calling in sick this week. It’ll be a brief publish at the moment. Every week in the past, I assumed life was good and nothing might go fallacious. Oh boy, I discovered life can hit you in surprising locations.
Meals poisoning
First, I acquired 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 little bit fever and I threw up on the way in which to the airport.
Missed flight
On the airport, Cathay Pacific refused to problem our tickets to Hong Kong. We missed a flight phase from Osaka to Tokyo beforehand. They stated our return tickets are invalidated. The remainder of our flight was with Air Canada. It was a multitude.
I ought to have bought new tickets to Hong Kong and tried to work it out with Air Canada. I’m fairly positive it might have been tremendous. Mrs. RB40 flew dwelling from Japan and he or she didn’t have any downside. Air Canada doesn’t have an workplace in Thailand and I couldn’t come up with them on the telephone. Consequently, we missed our flight and I needed to guide a brand new flight dwelling.
Let me inform you, attempting to guide a last-minute flight ticket isn’t enjoyable. All of the flight serps saved exhibiting me fake-out tickets. Once I tried to buy one thing, they’d say the fee couldn’t be processed. I believe the financial system seats have been bought 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 web site immediately and noticed there have been no financial 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 chew?
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 acquired a bug chew on my brow. It felt like a bee sting. My brow felt tingly, itchy, and a little bit numb. I attempted to disregard it.
Tuesday: I began a 30-hour journey dwelling on Tuesday morning. RB40Jr and I flew to Sydney, LAX, then Portland. The “chew” appeared progressively worse. It blistered and grew. I assumed it should have been a tick or flea. I by no means had this sort of response to a bug chew.
Wednesday: I acquired dwelling and went straight to pressing care. The supplier thought it is likely to be shingles. I stated no means. I simply acquired the shingle vaccine 6 months in the past. Moreover, it wasn’t itchy like chickenpox. They took a swab and began me on antiviral capsules, simply in case.
Sadly, they have been proper. The lab got here again and it was optimistic for the varicella-zoster virus. Welcome to outdated age, dumdum. Ugh! This is identical virus that causes chickenpox. Upon getting chickenpox, the virus stays in your system to reemerge as shingles once you’re outdated.
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 appear to be I went a couple of 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 could actually 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 want to remain dwelling and hope the antiviral capsules 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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