Thai Casualty
July 3rd 2013 3am and I’m not asleep. A sharp pain in my stomach causes me to stir from my slumber. At first I suspect it to be from something I ate at Ubon’s night market. Yet after Claire has finished poking and prodding me, she diagnoses it as appendicitis. We call a taxi from the Sri Isaan hotel and rush off into the dim early morning light to Ubon Rak Hospital.
After blood tests, urine samples, ultra
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