Playing Doctor

still in Phnom Phen, Bandy has been ill (again). He was covered in the most
horrific rash which slowly travelled throughout his entire body (or so he
assured me). Looks like prickly heat I reckon, we went to a 24hr clinic,
took his blood pressure, heart rate, then produced a massive needle to
inject him. We declined, unfourtunatley the ‘doctor” didn’t speak a word
of the queens so we still dont know what it is. Doesn’t look like ringworm, i
just checked. I didn’t help matters by joking that he’d been drinking lots
of whiskey :p But then what do you expect when you let me into a private
consultation!! (along with 5 members of the docs family too, eager to see
the ‘barang’ (foreigner) squeel as he’s injected with god knows what.
We just had a nice curry for breakfast, I think he’ll be ok. Hoping to go
to Ho Chi Minh tomorrow, or Saigon as its sometimes still called. Every time
we need to move he comes up with some hypercondrical illness! Still we’ve been
having fun, someone was shot and killed just up the road from the place we
were playing pool, outside the club that we had earlier left. Bandy was
crawling around behind the bar, but they quickly locked the bar up so we
didn’t have anything to worry about. Maybe he was just thirsty :p

6 days to go, it ain’t fair!!

Tags: bandy, drinks, pool, Travel