Dehli Belly/ Hong Kong Dog

What is a trip to South East Asia without getting sick and spending a whole day in your hotel room hoping to die. 
After a awesome afternoon photographing hundreds of stalls at the local "Old Market" I was starving and was as usual craving MEAT.  I had seen some fried chicken and last time I tried it, it was so good. So I checked it was still hot and got a nice big leg piece. I got about half way through and thats all I could do.  I gathered it was because I had an empty stomach and it was deep fried. I would later find out that market chicken is NOT OK.

We moved on and had a few more Angkor's at the Pub and some dinner and made our way home.  The next day we explored the city and went out for dinner that night with some other travellers we had met.  We were nearly home and I started feeling a bit dodgy in the stomach.

The next 24hours were not pretty at all. Im am glad Jazz made the call to not travel to Phnom Penh by bus as we had planned.  I have never been so sick with a stomach bug, with a fever and a serious case of the runs I was in bed shaking and aching all over for the whole day.  When I wasn't trying to sleep, I was watching crime dramas on a small tv across the room, and by the end of that day I was sick of CSI and Law and Order. 

We got some advice from our amazing Canadian Hostel owners as to what I might have come down with.  They recommended drugs.. so much to my displeasure Nurse Jasmine was sent out to get supplies a few times in the day, I wasn't so happy with the thought of her walking around Cambodia by herself, but she came back. 

It turns out you can pretty much buy anything over the counter at the road side phamacy so Jasmine came back with 3 sachets of Electrolites and some antibiotics.  Add some paracetamol to the cocktail and repeat every 4 hours and that was me for a whole night and day.  Plain French sticks for breakfast and lunch and plain steamed rice for dinner, yum!!

The next morning I woke up feeling much better, the aches had mostly gone and I had a little more energy. I put my quick recovery down to the prayers of freinds and family plus the medication I was on.  Whatever it was I was happy to no longer be lying helpless in bed.  Another French stick for breakfast for day 2 and we had to pack our bags for Phnom Penh.

Rick