"Bumrungrad" Marymc21's photos around Bangkok, Thailand
A TripAdvisor™ TripWow slideshow of a travel blog to Bangkok, Thailand by TravelPod blogger Marymc21 titled "Bumrungrad" Marymc21's travel blog entry: "Sounds like some German prison camp, doesn't it? "Hey Mary, what you doin' in Bangkok? You s'posed to be on some train in Vietnam, or at the very least, crawling over some more ancient temples in Cambodia! I'm getting tired of this craziness of you ending up unexpectedly in Bangkok!" To be honest, so am I. Here's the skinny. I don't know why I'm talking like this either, so let's pass it off as drugs. After all the shifting around hospitals and clinics, and minor surgery in Vietnam, someone decided to send me off for real surgery and a general anaesthetic, which is scary stuff, you'll agree. This was also all done on my own, which we've discovered I'm much less fond of in developing nations. Arriving at the hospital, the specialist came down, diagnosed me with exactly what I thought I had (have) and then said I couldn't have it, since I wasn't a man, so I could go home to Ireland. Of course I was insulted, and of course he was completely incorrect, but I WAS FREE. I got onto my travel insurance (the Irish among you may be surprised to learn that VHI's travel insurance section is based with a company in Holland, so you deal with Meerta and Mirska and Lynka, not Margaret and Teresa and Patricia), and begged them to send me home to Ireland. After several Skypes and fuzzy Vietnam phone lines (and lots and lots of tears), it_b_..._/b_