Today was a rough day.  I woke up with my Foot feeling okay, not good but not horrible.   We had a really good breakfast this morning of coconut sticky rice in leaves with fried dough and coffee or hot chocolate.  Generally I’ve noticed that they have nicer breakfasts on Saturday, kind of as an end of the workweek special.

Well my foot was doing okay so I went with the Outdoor group and Serchai to the Banjoi hill tribe Village to sell the second hand clothing we had been sorting all week.  We take the Clothes to different hill tribe villages and sell the clothes for really cheap prices: 5 baht for children’s, 10 for adult, and 20 for jeans.  That money is then used to support the elderly people in the hill tribes that cannot support themselves any longer.

When we got to the village we laid out a tarp and started to open the bags and then dump them into a pile on the tarp.  It was like a mall on Christmas Eve!  All of the women and children and some men just dived into the center and started grabbing clothes and burrowing them away!  It was like this every time we opened a new bag.  They all just dove in, ruthlessly grabbing for clothes.

After a while, I noticed my foot was swelled up pretty badly so when we were finished with lunch, Serchai took me to the hospital.  I got put into a wheel chair and was given a wristband and hospital card.  They wheeled me into the emergency room to clean my wound and then they took me to the waiting room for the doctor.  The doctor didn’t remove the bandage, but he looked at the swelling and told me that I needed to be put on an IV of antibiotics for 2-3 days because pill antibiotics wouldn’t be enough.  That was the last thing in the world I wanted to do, so I asked if there was another option and they told me I could take the pills but if it wasn’t better in 2 days, I had to go back to the hospital.

After seeing the doctor, I had to wait to get my medicine.  They gave me prescription iodine, antibiotics the size of my fist, an anti-inflammatory, and another pill, I’m not sure what it is.  It was total bill of 813 Baht!!  In American that really not that much, but in Thai that’s a lot of money!

We went to Mirror after and I had to pack for the weekend in Chiang Rai.  It was my last weekend in Thailand and I didn’t want to miss out and just be away from everyone not experiencing everything, so I still planned to go into town.

We went to Big C first and got too much snack food!  Then we went to the walking market where we were dropped off for the weekend, so we had to walk to our guesthouse.  That was a slow process for me, but everyone was being so helpful and supportive!  We dropped off our laundry, checked into our room, showered and were out again to go to P’Noi’s barbeque!  I was so happy to have the kebob’s with the awesome mushroom balls and the corn on the cob with the best sweet chili sauce ever made, before I left.

I followed people around to a couple bars for a little while so I could hang out with everyone and then turned in early so I could rest my foot!