As we only got in at 5am, a chilled day was needed so we headed to Patong Beach to watch the terrible/comedy parasailing and being hounded by beach sellers. The parasailing....the customers start stood up on the beach before being dragged (most head first) through the shallows as the boat sets off. Patong feels more like you are in Spain not Thailand, we are very glad we are here with friends as this may not have been our scene. Another thing that needed to b...

After a nightmare of a morning we are free with a platelet count of 132. What a palava with our insurance. In the end we paid the bill ourselves and we hope that we will be able to claim the costs back. We traveled to our hostel in style as Nick and Erica very kindly came to pick us up from the hospital. We can't believe that is the last time in our trip that we will see them. We are hoping they make it to England in the future. We have also got to express ho...

His platelets are on the up with a reading of 90 but we still have another night to spend here so that another blood test can be done in the morning hoping for a larger increase. We have also been told that this extra day will help to get all our insurance documents sorted so that we can leave in the morning. In other news, Matt took his first step out of the hospital room today to accompany Char to lunch. And Char gave him a guided tour of the private hospit...

Day two in Bangkok Phuket Hospital. We managed to have a better sleep last night due to the nurses only checking up on Matt every 4 hours instead of 2. They check his blood pressure, heart rate and take away the numerous bottles that he leaves on the side in the bathroom. Matt too had his first hot power shower in months today to blast away the grime of the last few days of being hooked up to the drip. On a positive note, the doctor decided that he would be ok...

With the nurse coming in to monitor and observe every two hours it was pretty hard to sleep. However better than the Dengue taking Matt's body into shock. Always a silver lining.... Char finally got her hot power shower. When the doctor visited on the morning round he informed us that Matt's platelet count had drop a lot more. 104-81.Not good as the risk of internal bleeding is very high. So it looks like we have a few more nights here. With Matt stuck in...