Had to stop my Padi course for a couple of days and decided to go to the doctor.
The hospital was packed with people but foreigners get special treatment via emergency (no queue, and no payment). Was diagnosed with a parasite from the local water (I had not been drinking it but had had brushed my teeth with it) Apparently is totally unsafe do drink it here on the island. The rest of the Panama has safe water (typical). Got my medicine. Was told to start a liquid diet… kind of impossible, but decided that I needed to do my best to eat sensibly. The rest of the day night and following morning was a mixture of: sweating in bed, headache, visiting the loo, medicine, fever (not the Saturday night variety), visiting the loo again and again….. a NIGHTMARE!!!
At some stage a Japanese girl bunked down in the room for the night – I don’t think it was a feverish hallucination.
The hospital was packed with people but foreigners get special treatment via emergency (no queue, and no payment). Was diagnosed with a parasite from the local water (I had not been drinking it but had had brushed my teeth with it) Apparently is totally unsafe do drink it here on the island. The rest of the Panama has safe water (typical). Got my medicine. Was told to start a liquid diet… kind of impossible, but decided that I needed to do my best to eat sensibly. The rest of the day night and following morning was a mixture of: sweating in bed, headache, visiting the loo, medicine, fever (not the Saturday night variety), visiting the loo again and again….. a NIGHTMARE!!!
At some stage a Japanese girl bunked down in the room for the night – I don’t think it was a feverish hallucination.