Adventures

Kata Beach, Phuket, Thailand:

For what it's worth, I'll quote here from an email that I sent earlier to the fam.

Before I start this story, please know there is nothing to worry about. We were woken in the middle of the night by me getting a very painful bite on my leg. We ripped the sheets off the bed to find a dime sized bug running away. Imagine my horror! We spent the next hour (at four am) trying to find it as I freaked out. We ripped the entire room apart (including lifting off the mattress) but we think it ran under the door frame. Other than the immediate fear that I was going to die we watched me closely. No bite mark, no swelling, no rash, no feeling funny. We also did internet research AND talked to our dive instructor ( a Thailand resident of 12 years) and he said there was nothing dangerous fitting this description and that the only dangerous bugs here we would definitely KNOW by swelling/rash. So, after a sleepless night we are the proud inhabitants of a room at a new hotel. Let me repeat that I am better than fine. It's funny looking back because we were both half asleep shaking out sheets and blankets with sandals raised above our heads, ready to attack and yet scaring each other with jumps at every piece of paper or dust that fluttered in the fan's breeze.


Such is life in South East Asia.