(Katherine) The past couple of days were focused on movie watching while Robert and I tried to nurse ourselves back to health. Friday morning we both woke up with different ailments. He was recovering from one too many cocktail “buckets” the night before, and I was afflicted with a massive irritation in my left eye caused by a scratch from my contact on Monday. I finally conceded to going to a doctor, and we ended up making our way to Bangkok Mission Hospital. They didn’t spend that much time with me, but they were very nice and at least gave me some drops to start treatment. We spent the ret of the night trying to download independent movies on Robert’s laptop so we wouldn’t go crazy watching the same BBC news loop while we stayed in all night - the only English speaking channel on our TV.
The next day we went to a much larger facility to have someone look at my eye, the Bangkok Christian Hospital. There was an actual optometry clinic, which made me feel much more comfortable about the level of care I was receiving. They prescribed two new eye drops and insisted we return the next day for a follow up. I was very impressed by their professionalism, and the nurses wear very cute traditional uniforms in a lovely shade of lavender.
That evening, we decided to have a low-key Saturday night and visit one of Bangkok’s mega malls called the Siam Paragon Shopping Complex. We started in the food court where there are dozens of restaurants and cuisines to choose from. We decided upon a Thai restaurant, but marveled at how the random street side shack by our neighborhood still seemed to serve better food. Afterward, we went to the top floor of this 7 story structure to purchase tickets for the new M. Night Shyamalan movie, Devil. This Paragon movie theater is HUGE with at least 14 different screens. They even have one called the “Nokia Experience” where you can lay down completely horizontal with a blanket and a pillow… at a cost of about 4x the price of a normal ticket. No thanks, we enjoyed our regular silver screen and a very scary tale about an elevator ride…..from hell…..
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