My foot is going "Yaagh!" so I made an appointment to see a podiatrist for tomorrow morning. Yesterday morning I was excited, I thought my foot was doing okay again. I walked down to Clark to catch the #22 , and ab...

Good news.  My doctor arrived this morning about 9:30, very impressive for her day off.  After reviewing the chest xray from yesterday she is satisfied that the infection is largely gone.  I'm to be releas...

這兩天喉痛… 今天還流鼻水，看來是為補習學生所傳染… 為了一百幾十搞到考試期間病了還要付錢買藥起，得不償失啊~

As I write this I can look out the window and watch my third sunset from room 1001 at Bangkok Hospital.  More than twenty-four hours have passed with no fever and this morning my doctor, who came in on her day off t...

Sorry I haven't been blogging for a few months. A lot has happened since my last post. I had an endoscopy and found out I have severe gastritis and they can't figure out the cause. Then I got the "swine," also known as t...

Sometimes a short staycation is just what the doctor ordered.  Literally.  On my return to the doctor, much as I expected, there wasn't any significant improvement with my lung infection so I'm doing two to three at Bangkok Hospital....

Wednesday morning I awoke still feverish and with a worsening cough from deep within my chest.  Realizing that rest and plenty of fluids were proving insufficient to overcome this illness, I went to Bangkok Hospital...

A year ago this saturday my grandmother, my dad's mother passed away. She had been ill in hospital for some time and before that had been in a nursing home which gave 'specialist care'. I didn't visit her once in hospita...

The Daily Beast recently reported on eight illnesses that are rumored to appear in the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorder (DSM). Here's the list: 1) Binge-Eating Disorder: An ea...

I like to consider myself a man of science.  When I came down with flu-like symptoms (temperature of 102.5 F / 39.2 C, muscle aches, occasional cough) I of course realized that I must have been exposed to a flu viru...