Not What Was Planned

As I mentioned a few days ago I fell off a motor scooter during our holiday in South Thailand. Well, half way through the first morning of the Bible translation conference I found that one of my bruises had become very sore and rather red and inflamed. Thinking that it might be an infection I asked a colleague who used to be a nurse which antibiotics she recommend I buy (in many parts of the world you can get such things over the counter). She took a brief look at my calf and said that I had to see a doctor immediately as she feared that what I thought was an infection could actually be a blood clot! So, I was taken down to the local hospital and kept under observation for 24 hours. I had to stay in bed for a day reading books with my leg raised. Normally, I’d be glad of the opportunity to lie in bed and read books – but I’d done a fair bit of that during the rainy phase of our holiday (though keeping a leg raised was a novelty) and anyway, the bed and food were better at the hotel where the conference is being held.

Anyway, the upshot is that I don’t have a thrombosis (though better to have checked) but I do have an infection and my leg is still sore, but the antibiotics should sort it out.