Now, there was no need for that...Tell us about the times when an already difficult situation has been made worse for no good reason. Pollollups writes, "As if being given a muscle relaxant and trapped in an MRI tube wasn't bad enough: whilst thus immobilised, they played me Dido."
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chthonic, Thu 16 Jun 2005, 7:46)
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from bad to worse3 days into a 7 day long trek in the himalayas I starting suffering from acute all the symptons of Malaria. It could also have been altitude sickness, as we were camped at 3700 meteres. So the best thing was to get me down off the mountain as quickly as possible (both conditions being potentially fatal).
However I was so disorientated I could barely walk and the nearest place where there was a road was a full day's hike away and we weren't sure that even then there would be anyone to drive me to a village, or whatever, but my condition looked bad so we put me on a horse and we went for it at 5am.
At about 5.10am I got dizzy and fell off the horse and dislocated my shoulder, which is where it went from bad to bloody awful. I had to spend a horrifying 12 hours sat on a horse in agonising pain clutching on for dear life with one hand, thinking I'm dying of malaria in the mountains with a 1000 foot drop to my left most of the way. My other arm was poking out all over the place at a frankly frightening and very unammusing angle.
That was followed by a 3 hour journey in an army truck, followed by a 1 hour ride in a landrover before I got fixed.
sorry for length - there are still a number of horrifying details I left out
(, Fri 17 Jun 2005, 10:33, Reply)
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