Bad Karma and intact eardrums

Brief morning blog (we start at 10 today, so I am having a relaxing morning).

First, I had an AWESOME night’s sleep….with the door wide-open and everything. I think it must have been the painkillers and other drug concoction that the nurse has me on. After being online last night, James came and sat down next to me in Café del Sol and told me there is a good clinic down by the Sunshine end of the island across from the 7-11. It was 9:00 p.m., but he said they’re open until ten. So I nipped down there. My biggest concern was that my eardrum may have perforated or have breached at some point.

I am now $20 lighter in the pocket, but feeling a little more reassured it hasn’t (a little, not a lot, because come on, let’s face it, it is a Thai nurse clinic on a small island in the Gulf of Thailand). But the nurse had a looksee in my ear and advised me I have a crap load of seawater stuck in my middle ear. To prevent the risk of infection, she has given me the Thai answer to life….antibiotics, as well as some Actifed (kind of like Sudafed) and some painkillers. I made her give me only two Actifed, as I can always find that stuff floating around the diveshops…..

As I am not diving today, let’s hope it all clears up by the morning…..I need to get going on my certs, especially if I want to enjoy any “fun” diving of my own before I leave!

Oh, as I was distracted yesterday, I forgot to mention. My vegetarian ways may have lapsed for a brief moment. No, don’t get excited you bunch of vampiric, vulture-like carnivores….I didn’t say I am now a meat eater. I became vegetarian because I don’t believe I need to have an animal killed to feed me. Now, please, everybody, I am not proselytizing, so do not jump up and down and go getting your knickers in a twist. No need for a debate on the whole subject. I mention my rationale simply because I purposefully killed a spider two nights ago. And by purposefully, I mean I took a big broom and smashed the living shit out of it.

I wouldn’t ordinarily kill a spider….in fact, much to the chagrin of the missus, there have been two big ‘uns living on my ceiling for the better part of two months. But these ones are small fly-catching critters with tiny bodies but long skinny skinny legs. They are good for the room. The one I killed, on the other hand, had legs thicker than a gecko’s and a body that could quite easily be one of a juvenile tarantula. This was your typical jungle ghetto spider. I swear, he was packing a piece. Anyway, he scared two tons of holy Jesus out of me and there was no way I could stay in the room knowing he might be lurking around somewhere.

So please, veggie spirits in the sky, forgive me. But it was him or me (fuck off, grammar Nazi’s, I know it should be “he or I”). I swear.

Ah well, just a brief update to let you know the eardrum is in tact and to get lots of fingers crossed so that I can dive tomorrow or the day after by the latest…..

Time to chill and enjoy my Americano, then off to school for the last day of classes…Yes!! And DG arrives at some point today…..DG sit tight at Café del Sol, I will be there as soon as I can….