Yuppers, I went for a checkup yesterday afternoon and my ear is healed. It was a different Doc and he introduced himself as the one that ‘replaced’ Dr Yap. Even the office staff was different. Anyway, the last Doc didn’t do a diagram on my card so he didn’t know where the hole was supposed to be on my eardrum - he said it healed so well in only 11 days that he couldn’t tell where the hole had ever been. He also told me to stop using cotton buds after showering…. ohhhh.. damn, he’s good.
Boracay has another victim - me.
I have a massive blue/black bruise on my upper ass cheek, cuts on the wrist that look like a sorry attempt at suicide, heavy cloth cargo shorts with a cut in the back, a knot on my head…and I’m limping like a gimp in physical therapy. Spent all day yesterday in bed, all day today until 19:30. I was doing OK down on the beach to get some cash but as soon as I came back up the hill, hell no! pain.
I stayed on the laptop last night working on those other stories until the power went out for most of the 1am-4am hours. I was hoping it was temporary. Its not leaving yet and is 48hrs old and getting worse so I might have to get it checked out but this is Boracay, which has very little in the way of standardized medicine. Last time I went for an injury, they misdiagnosed me and shot me full of Tramadol before asking if I was allergic. I know my own drug interactions so I just watched how far they would continue with improper practices. It never stopped. Thats another story completely…and would be long and scathing.
I fell down the stairs. In the jungle. I’m sticking to that story. You can understand my reluctance to get looked at here on Boracay.
