I think I mentioned that I injured my foot wading out to a beach back up at Ha long Bay (a week ago by this point). I had stood on a shell and it had stabbed the balll of my foot and some shards had lodged in there. At the time Dr Sally thought that she had removed all the pices . . . but as it turned out she had missed the biggest piece!

A week later I was puzzled as to why my foot was still sore to walk on and was even becoming worse. My doctor assured me it was just because of the position on my foot (should have got a second opinion).

Any way, after removing the plaster one evening we noticed a bit of a pong - infected perhaps!?! - and this was when Dr Sally removed the last chunk of shell (massive btw) as I hugged the pillow and screamed. What a relief, felt better straight away.

But just to be safe we headed off to see a proper doctor to clean it up etc. Dr Dong's all night surgery where the nurse cleaned and bandaged my wound a I got some antibiotics, which I washed down with beers as it was a Saturday night.

All better now