Day 302-304: Kampot Sickness

When researching and planning Gap Year, we tried to split up country research to share the burden. For Asia, Mary was most excited for Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Philippines, Vietnam, and Singapore which means Kieran would handle the remaining countries (Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia, US Ski Trip). We would both do New Zealand.

Of course the problem is that our trip was front loaded with Mary’s countries. This is probably the reason why after arriving to Cambodia, Mary’s body decided to shutdown…

We started with a 4:30am bus ride for 7 hours to Phnom Penh and then 4 more house to Kampot; we had a small break in between for soup and coffee. Kieran had amazing days planned to include waterfall hopping, kayaking, and partying at a hostel with water slides/diving platforms. We arrive around 9pm and go to bed.

Kieran woke up to watch a Ravens football game and Mary wasn’t feeling great (body chills, sweating, fever, muscle fatigue, soar throat, no appetite). She got progressively worse as the game went on, with a fever jumping from 100.2 to 101.6 in the second game half. Overthinking (but not really) we considered malaria based on how quickly the symptoms developed and the locations we have been in the last few weeks. Kieran went to get lunch and the hostel owner noted it could be dengu fever and recommended a clinic downtown should we need it.

Well the fever rapidly hit 102.2 so we tuk tuk’d downtown to Kampot to get tested for dengu, parasites, and malaria. The results which were negative. Grabbed some fever reducer and headed home to watch for new symptoms (blanky time activated). Really bad chills with high fever throughout the night and the fever peaked at 102.6 even with the reducer.

Luckily the fever broke back down to 101 on Saturday, but she slept all day. Kieran spent his time playing Mario, checking temperature, forcing a non-hungry person to eat something, and hanging out outside.

It was disappointing to not truly enjoy Kampot, but we were lucky that no one else stayed in our hostel room. More adventure to come the next day anyway 🤒 here are some lack luster pictures of our food and stay lol

Hostel: Acadia Backpackers Kampot

Food:
Tom Yum

Spots:
KampotLeggi altro