Beware of the Dogs

May 27th, 2002 at 12:00am

All’s been going well here on Ko Samui with Dad…well, until yesterday that is. We’ve been here a few days now, staying at a really nice place right on the beach (Long Island Resort), and today we both started on a 7-day fast/cleanse program at the Spa, just a 5-minute walk from where we are staying. For those of you who may have read my journal back in November, you will remember (or perhaps want to forget, sorry if the colema stories were too graphic) that I did a 14-day fast then, also at the Spa. Well don’t worry, I won’t go into ALL the detail this time…if you want all the’poop’ you can scroll back and be prepared. This is Dad’s first fast so I am here to offer moral support and congraulate him for making the decision to do an amazing thing for his body, that is to rid himself of toxic build-up that each and every one of us has accumulated in ourselves. Ok sorry, I won’t go off on the fasting tangent now…let’s just say it’s something that I really, really believe in and if you want me to talk incessantly about something just bring up fasting sometime and I will start the sermon. So it’ll be a 7-day fast (no food) with 2 colemas every day, starting today.

Anyway, back to the drama. Last night Dad and I decided to walk along the beach into Lamai to check email. It was about 7 pm, not totally dark but getting into that post-sunset shadowy dusk. Anyway we were walking along and all of a sudden this dog laying on the beach jumped up and bit Dad in the leg! In the lighting I couldn’t see the wound but I could tell that Dad was in pain. We walked up to the nearest resort to have a look. It was pretty bad. I mean, not stitches bad, but it definitely broke the skin (in a big teeth mark pattern) and was bleedly quite steadily. One of the guys at the resort gave us some stuff to clean the wound and we had a chance to ask about the dog, who owns him, and if he’s had a rabies shot or not. Then we went straight to the clinic in town which was less than a 10-minute walk away.

I left Dad to wait there while I did email. He was hardly the worst of the lot …there was a Western guy, all bloddied up from a motorbike accident, sitting right next to Dad. Poor Dad! I felt terrible. In the end though everything was fine. The doctor was great; he gave Dad a Tetnus shot, a rabies shot (first in the series of 5), antibiotics, and some bentadine, all done in 30 minutes and for a grand total of less than $20 USD. That was more than enough excitement for one day. Hopefully that will be the only misshap during our stay on Samui. Time to refocus on the fast now and get into that whole meditative-cleansing-mind-and-body mode…

Sunset from Lamai Beach, Ko Samui

The view from inside our Beachfront Suite

Sorry, I know its gross, but heres the dog bite

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