Author: Garry

Garry McGivern’s South Asia bike-ride, India, Saturday, 15th-October-2016. In Dhule. I went to the new hospital at about eight o’clock last night with Deepam’s father, who also had an appointment with the same doctor!  (two for the price of one, maybe?) After another examination and looking at my xray the doctor thinks I’ve got allergic bronchitis! (Something new to add to my list of ailments!) which does sort of figure. What with all the air pollution. My skin allergy, asthma which I’ve had since a baby and a chest infection it’s all combined against me!

After giving me his verdict, he asked me what I wanted to do to stay in hospital or continue on my tour! Thinking I really don’t want to stay in the hospital, I may never come out! I said I wanted to continue on my tour, but I wanted to be better first and asked if it was okay to stay where I was, at the hotel. He agreed with me and thought that that was probably the best plan.

If I’m no better tomorrow I’ve got to go back and see him again otherwise he’ll see me on Monday, well I think that’s what was said! After putting me on a nebuliser for ten minutes, they allowed me to go.

I felt so much better when I woke up this morning which was helped by the lovely smells wafting into my room. They were setting up for a banquet in the courtyard below my window, and the cooking had started early.

I even ventured out for a little walk this afternoon just to see how I felt. I only walked about five hundred yards down the road, and funnily enough, I ended up outside a little bar. Well, it would be rude not to! So I ventured in for one!

Yep! I’m definitely still not that well. The beer didn’t taste very nice at all! I only had the one, then went back to the hotel.

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Garry McGivern Travelsonabike2 India Friday 14th-October-2016. In Dhule. I had another cockroach in my room last night. Luckily I spotted it before going to bed, although it wasn’t very lucky for him! He was a big brute and much bigger than the one from the other day. I saw him when I returned from supper, just as I was about to sit on the bed! He was sitting beside the bedside table, looking at me! There was no way that I fancied sharing my room with that thing!

Not knowing what to do, I didn’t want to kill it, and I didn’t have anything I could catch it with, so I went and got the young lad from reception. But of course, the roach had disappeared when he arrived! With no cockroach to be seen, there was nothing to be done, so the young lad left. I knew Mr roach was in here somewhere, just waiting until I was asleep, then he’d come out and crawl over me!

I lay on the bed with my head hanging off, trying to see if I could spot him scurrying around on the floor! Got him behind the bedpost of the other bed! Now, what was I going to do? By the time I went to get the young lad, he’d have headed for cover again! As I said earlier, I was reluctant to kill him, certainly not with my bare hands. It wasn’t as if it was a fly or ant. This thing was a good two inches in length!

Now What Do I Do

I came up with the idea of throwing my towel over him to hold him while I went for help. After getting my towel from the bathroom, I returned to find out in the open, away from the bedpost. He was along the edge of the wall, an ideal place to catch him. So I quickly threw the towel over him and tucked the side’s down so he couldn’t escape. As I sat back, pleased with my work, he suddenly shot out from under the towel, causing me to scream like a girl!

There’s A Cockroach In My Room Video

He was now under a chair, and I was getting bored with all this (as no doubt you are hearing about it). When he broke cover, I again threw the towel over him, but this time I’m sorry to say, I made sure he wasn’t going to escape as I squashed the towel down. Sorry, Mr roach, I did give you a chance! Once I thought he was dead or at least incapacitated, I went back to reception for them to remove it and get a clean towel!

Off To Hospital

Deepam took me to the local hospital on the back of his Royal Enfield motorbike this afternoon to get checked out as I’m still not right, but have I ever been??

We arrived at the hospital and had to take our shoes off before entering. We then went into a room where there were four or five doctors. One of them spoke excellent English and started to say that they were going to keep me in for a couple of days so they could do some tests! I think he must have seen the look of horror on my face as he quickly changed it to maybe one day then!

I was then led to the ICU ward and given a bed. They then proceeded to take my blood pressure and temperature. They also gave me an ECG, all standard practice when going into hospital, so I wasn’t too worried, apart from being admitted to the intensive care ward! Thankfully all the tests came back okay.

Next up was an x-ray which wasn’t quite so good. And I was referred to another hospital. After giving me some more tablets to take! I was allowed to leave. I was just relieved not to have to stay in hospital! Although Deepam did say that if I did stay in, I could order food from the hotel, and they would deliver it to me! Now that’s service!

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