Bad News

Well, I didn't get to the markets on sunday because I had a motor bike accident on my first lesson on Saturday and spent 3 days in hospital on a drip. Nothing too serious, my bike tilted while going, and instead of breaking i accelerated and ended up sliding along a brick garden bed wall with most of the weigh of the bike on my leg. I spit my leg open down to the flesh in a small area just on the inside, next to the bone on my shin and then made a huge long graze type thing running all the way around the front of my leg, about 3 inches wide. My ankle is also twice the size of the other one, but nothing broken. I was very lucky to escape with just the injuries on my left leg and a few scratches on my belly when i had to untangle myself from a rose bush. They only kept me in the hospital so long because it was a really dirty wound’s and they wanted to make sure it was all ok and because I’m a white foreigner. The hospital was nice and clean but they aren’t doing a very good job when I go back to have the dressing changed every day, so we went to a different one today and they did a much better job and for only an extra 100 baht ($3AUS)














The three days in hospital were so boring, here is a view from my bed, it was all very clean, similar to something you would find in a public hospital at home.














The view from the window next to my bed was quite nice and the sun setting over the mountains was beautiful, especially good through all the pollution. I came home on Tuesday and all the girls at home have been really good to me. I bought some crutches from the hospital for 600baht after searching everywhere for some to hire. But now that I have them I can get around much easier. I’m still not going outside the house too often though. I have gone through the collection of DVD’s and sat fiddling with the cables and buttons on the VCR until I got it to work.
I miss the kids already and I still have at least a week until I can even think about going to see them.