Last night we both spent the night in Nha Trang hospital, Yes the hospital!! Michael wasn't feeling the best as we had a night out on the town as you can see from the last blog, but it wasn't just a hang over.
In the afternoon he felt abit better so we went for a stroll along the beach and enjoyed a drink, garlic bread and swim at the lovely Louisian. We heard about this great Indian restaurant from our pommy friends called Omars so we went there for dinner. While ordering Michael began to feel increasingly ill but we had already ordered all our food so we thought we would just go straight home to the hotel after dinner or stop by a chemist to get cream for his rash.
Within 5 minutes he was feeling so out of sorts and freaking out we told the indian people we need to get take away as he is sick. They were really nice and helpful and could speak good english so the owner offered to drive Michael on his motorbike to the medical clinic to get cream. While on the motorbike Michael became so weak and started to shrivle up into a ball (muscles were contracting.) He could hardly hold onto the indian guy on the motorbike when he arrived at the hospital. He couldn't walk and had to get carried into the emergency room and put on a drip. I was at the Indian restaurant waiting and hear from a phone call from the Indian guy that i needed to catch a cab to the emergency ward.
We were freaking out most of the night as they were pumping liquid into him and taking samples of blood but couldn't communicate effectively to explain what was wrong or what they were doing. The Diagnosis (written on the invoice the next morning): Allergic reaction to seafood. He gets abit of an allergy from seafood sometimes (asma etc) but the're must have been something really wrong in the food to make him react in this way. We had to sleep in the hospital over night, luckily we got put in a room by ourselves.
It was a surreal experience as things aren't cordened off like in Australia.We were witnessing people being stretchered in half dead from motorbike accidents trying to be saved.