The panoramic (and dramatic) view from our 10th floor hospital room in Chiang Mai. My, what an adventure May has been for us! We are thankful to be putting it behind us, and moving on to greener pastures. At least our time in the hospital included free WiFi, and so I was able to increase [...]
Hospital Update May 30th – GOOD NEWS! Kelly is on the mend. The fever has broken, and the blood tests are starting to move in the right direction. We will be released tomorrow (Saturday), in time to board the train for the 4-day ride to Singapore, with one day to spare to catch our flight [...]
Hospital Update May 28th: Things aren’t much better. It’s still ugly. We just hang on to the fact that the “fever” part of Dengue Fever is not supposed to last more than seven days, and we are at day six. Four days from now is our cut-off to be sufficiently recovered to be on the [...]
Hospital Update May 27th: It ain’t pretty. That’s all I gotta say. We’re working hard to get Kelly well enough for us to make it to Singapore in time for our flight out on June 5th. We hope it’s all uphill after today. On to more positive things… Until recently, travelers from all over have [...]
Hospital Update May 26th: Although Kelly’s fever is starting to subside (it comes in waves), his blood count continues to show signs of deteriorating health. We hope that today is “rock bottom”. It is obvious that we will not be on the train scheduled for Tuesday (tomorrow), nor will we be out of the country [...]
Hospital Update May 25th: We are settled in at Chiangmai Ram hospital here in Chiang Mai. The digs are pretty nice (as nice as a hospital can be), and there is a nearby shopping center where I can get anything that Kelly desires. Kelly feels better, but is running a constant fever, has some GI [...]
Thank you to everybody who made such generous donations to our Burma Disaster Relief Efforts!A great big thank you is in order for all your help in our efforts to provide aid in the face of the ongoing suffering, death, and destruction in Burma. We have closed the site to new donations, as we must [...]
Just in case you missed it, here is the latest news piece on CBC’s The National that was put together to tell our story: (email subscribers: visit the blog directly to view the YouTube clip) We have now raised almost $12,500 towards cyclone relief in Burma! We couldn’t do it without our generous donors. If [...]
Well, we’ve had some crushing blows in the face of all the work we have done over this week, but also amazing victories in the face of it. After networking like mad in a country where we don’t speak the language and are tiptoeing around making any cultural faux pas with powerful business people, we [...]
It is hard to believe that we have been at this for seven days now. It truly feels like seven weeks. All we can do is remember that our hell is nothing in comparison to the hell that the Burmese victims continue to endure. For them, we persevere. We two Canadians seem to have become [...]
