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The day started with a grumpy me waking up every hour through the night. With no jammies as I had washed them and couldn't be bothered to go outside and get them before bed!
I then got up at 8am and had breakfast. Delightful fruit magic with s***ty soya milk. Vom.
In a mad rush i got ready for work and had to run part the way as I was going to be late, never a good thing. Also had to stop off at the ATM on the way to try to get some cash for the weekend as we're planning to go to Arambol for a relaxed weekend on the beach.
- Get to the ATM put in my card, PIN entered correctly, selected the ammount of mooney i wanted... Declined. Brilliant. Tried again... Declined. Perfect. By this point I'm already 10 mins late.
I then have to walk past the old woman who sells err... ripe fish. Vomtastic. The most rank smell, not something you want to smell at 9am!
Get to work, the next 3 hours fly by then we plan things to do for the week ahead. All fine. Go back to said ATM to try again. No, still declined! Try to phone mother to see what the hell is going on... No, my phone doesn't work as my SIM is no longer active... Get back at around half 12 sweatting my face off as it's so hot.
Have lunch and hear about Joe being bitten in the morning by a dog. Sarah and I then and decide to go into Colva on Janets scooter. I let Sarah drive as I didn't trust myself. Got into Colva, go to Cafe Coffee Day to sample the new cake menu - They dont have the one I want! So I ask for a fruit smoothie thing, no they dont have any ice. Wonderful so hot coffee it is then. We ask for the fan to be turned on, nope the fans aren't working either.
Manage to hire ourselves a scooter for 3 weeks but we can't have it until 9pm as they are all out on hire for the day. Cheers, so two on Janets scooter back to Majorda it is then!
Sarah then suggests that I drive. Oh lord. Last time i tried to ride a scooter was James' little zipper which i fell off on a straight road. So I pactice up and down the street on Janets scooter dodging cows and idiot
Russians along the way. I almost driver into a gutter trying to turn and have short fat Indian men laughing at my poor ability to drive.
So off we go. Tooteling down the road... Got up to 40kph oh yeah, we were flying! Then some t*** decided that they wanted to race two white girls on mopeds with their huge motorbike. Lame. So they cut infront of me and ride at 20.... ALL THE WAY BACK!
We get to the top of our road and there is a dead puppy in the road with it's eyes popping out and blood splatted all over the place. Yummy.
Then get back and chill out for an hour or so. Bhavini come back and says that she needs phone credit. I offer to come along too to keep her company. On the walk to the shop we talk about Joe being bitten by a dog earlier in the day and how I've had my rabies shots and Bini hasn't, how the puppy could have been killed by another dog etc... The conversation goes on.
Get to the shop only to be told I have to pay RS 110/- to top up my SIM but it wont give me any credit on my phone, so just pay it and hope my
SIM works for another 2 months.
So off we toodle back home, walk past the dead puppy in the road again see a creepy man sat on the wall, get a little freaked out. Almost back home and we see a dog walking down the path, think nothing of it as there are often animals walking around. It doesn't do anything different just continues to walk we turn the corner and kaboon next thing i know i have a dog charging at my leg ripping a chunk of it out. I scream - Quite loudly and everyone on camp comes out to see what's going on. I start to cry from the shock, Bini goes into action, Janet runs to get ice, I find my insurance and med doc's.
We then get in the car to go to hospital after EVENTUALLY getting people ready. We get to the top of the road and see the same dog going for another man.
On the other side of the road is a woman with to young children, people shout to try to get them to change direction. By this time i'm a little scared. I've just been bitten by a dog in a rabies infected counrty. Nobody sees the urgency about it.
I then realise i've left my insurence docs and med certs on my bed so we have to turn around to get them. Finally, 50 minutes after I was bitten we get to A&E. Supprisingly clean in comparison to the rest of India. I lie on the bed reluctantly resting my head on the brown tinged pillow. Then have a doctor poke it and him tell a nurse to take me to the bathroon to wash it.... Brilliant. So off we go to a dingy little bathroon, bar of soap in hand and i am told to wash the back of my own leg.
I am then given a Rabies shot and a tettinus shot. And a bill of RS 775/- for the 'medical attention' and RS 545.95/- for the shots.
We get back home and i attemt to comfort myself with a snickers bar... Needless to say it doesn't work!
I phone mother and cry a lot (sorry mother!) And now have two dead arms and feel like s***. Am also terrified at the thought of seeing another dog let alone having to walk to work on monday morning past the spot where it all happened.
All I can say is thank the lord I shaved my legs earlier on in the day!
- comments
Emily Emily dislikes this very much (n) come home and have tea and biccies and other nice non-rabiesinfested things hope you're ok, that sounds like a pretty crappy day =(
Stephen Sounds like your having a lovely time!
Foreign I don't quite understand why people like your awesome self decide to travel to poor ass countries. its all dirty.
RJ1 errrrrr sorry........ but that did make me laugh :-D x
Tristan Definately with the others here, silly decision to go to rabies place over xmas, we have mince pies! Neways all the best, hope ure leg isn't too shot up, enjoy the rest of ure trip! x
Jules M Vic - you poor fecker, love your blog, hope the bite heals OK x