DAY 66 CHIANG MAI

All things come to a halt when your child is sick, no mater what country you are in. On my exploratory hike yesterday while Dwana, Viena and Ezra were relaxing poolside, I was almost lost in the jungle. The feeling of being lost is not a pleasant feeling, but then I found a trail that looked like a well beaten trail heading in the direction that I sort of wanted to go in and so that unpleasant “lost” feeling disappeared and I was skipping and hopping down the bunny trail. I breathed in a sigh of relief knowing that if I just kept walking I too would soon be relaxing poolside – but the well trodden trail, aburtly split into two, with neither one looking desirable. One split was going off the main trail in a different direction but was more walked used (used by what I don’t know). The main split was heading in the “right” direction but was covered with leaves and bamboo shoots and did not looked well used at all. The same anxious feeling arose and I realized “I was not out of the Jungle yet!” SO after going down the more trodden trail and crawling around under bamboo I decided to double back and take the less trodden trail, which proved successful and I finally escaped the Jungle and arrived at the pool. Since life is symbolic, Ezra was doing well a 2 days ago. His fever was gone and he was smiling and laughing and even being the loud Ezra we are used to and so we thought that the worst of the sickness was behind us, but we were not out of the jungle yet. Yesterday evening, Ezra’s fever returned and with the fever a headache ensued. And so we are back in the same boat in a different foreign country with a 4 year old and a fever. His fever is not as high now as the one in Malaysia 6 days ago that caused him to talk through the night, but this one appears to be more painful to his head. He has slept most of the day and we took him to see a local doctor who recommended the hospital in Chiang Mai for blood tests. I do not feel like rushing into a Thai hospital 30 minutes away just yet, so we will just wait and see.