This time a year ago i was nearing the end of my six month tour around Brazil, a year ago today actually i was at Ipanema beach in Rio de Janeiro. Sitting on the beach drinking Brahma or Skol (the brazilian skol not the english skol which tastes simular to rats pis), or skating along the see front on my mountain board.
Any way i think i have a request concerning something i said in Rin's journal about a time in Brazil and an incident concerning a fleash eating bacteria. So here i go....
I had only been in Brazil for a couple of weeks, I was staying at my ex girlfriends place, a Brazillian girl by the name of Raphaela how i used to live with back in Brighton in England and i was staying with her and her lovely family and her pit bull named "Skunky" who was a lovley dog and one day i was basking in the sun in her back garden next to the pool which her father had just filled and no one was home so i decided to have a swim to cool off. Skunky decided to jump in. Now the previouse week i had gotten very drunk with this guy called Alixandre and had fallen over busting open my elbow, actually the cut was only small bt was deep, right down to the bone! any way i thought nothing of it being a stupid gringo!. So there i am swimming in a pool with a dog with an open wound in my elbow. Well anyhow i had found out a little later that Raphaelas father had not yet put any chlorine in the pool! Im sure you can beggin to see where this is going. Well a week later i was about to depart to start my travel around Brazil. The night before i left, my self Raphaela and a guy called Fabrisio (Raphaelas new boyfriend) went down to the local pool hall and had a few beers and played a couple of games of pool. Once we had finished i noticed a little tinge in my elbow. I thought i might just had jard it. But later that evening my whole arm had started to swell and i was in some of the worst pain i had ever been in with a huge lump which was growing by the minute on my elbow. Well needless to say i couldnt sleep the whole evening. When morning came raphaela and her family were very concerned they even thought that i had somehoe broken my elbow! So off we went instead of going to the coach station we went to the hospital and after a few hours of waiting the doctor decided that i didnt have a broken arm. So he sent me to another hospital and once again another few hours of waiting. Once i had been seen the doctors about 12 in all had decided that it was only a small infection and the swelling was only due to fluid build up and put me on some antibiotics. So off i went and by the tiem i had gotten to my next destination i was in agony! Anyway i ended up pulling this girl, Giselle was her name and i stayed with her for a week, as you do. But my arm was huge by this time the swelling had gotten worse and the lump went from near my shoulder down to my whist and even nearly joined up around my arm! Well needless to say Giselle was getting fed up with every time she even touched my arm in bed i would bloody scream in agony so she took me to see her uncle, who so happened to be a priofessor at a medical school near Sao Paulo. After a cearful and not to delicate examination he concluded that i had an advance case of Stephelococus (not to sure on the spelling but im sure you know what i meen) actualy a perticulaly mean strain, and he thought that i may need to go to hospital for an operation and if that didnt work then maybe amputation!!!
Thats me and Skunky in the pool in Brazil once i had recovered and there was chlorine in the pool, I think this was actually Christmas day.
Well after seeing a couple more doctors, they decided that it would be best to put me on these extremely potent pills which made me feel like crap and i wasnt allowed to drink for a month! Bugga!
Anyway they told me if it didnt get better within a week then they would have to opperate and if that didnt work then yes i would lose my arm from just below the shoulder!
Anyway i was fine after a few days the swelling had allready gone down and the lump had halved in size. So needless to say i was a wee bit relieved and finally able to have sex without pausing every time my arm touched something to scream.
When i went back to see Gisellle's unkle he was so happy with my progress, anyway he asked e some questions concerning where i could have contracted this strain. After telling him about the last few weeks in the country he concluded that i must have contracted it via the cut in my elbow and it must have come from Skunky! It turns out that this strain comes from DOG SHIT!. Anyway no hard feelings i still have an arm and im happythough to this day im plagued by problems with my elbow from where the bacteria had eaten away at the tissue around my elbow. But hey i still had a great time in Brazil though that wasnt my only problem i had in Brazil.
Im sure i will get into some of my other grussome stories of my times travelling another day.
So now ive got to finish fixing the sink in the bathroom and fix the bloody dishwasher so i bid you fairwell.
Any way i think i have a request concerning something i said in Rin's journal about a time in Brazil and an incident concerning a fleash eating bacteria. So here i go....
I had only been in Brazil for a couple of weeks, I was staying at my ex girlfriends place, a Brazillian girl by the name of Raphaela how i used to live with back in Brighton in England and i was staying with her and her lovely family and her pit bull named "Skunky" who was a lovley dog and one day i was basking in the sun in her back garden next to the pool which her father had just filled and no one was home so i decided to have a swim to cool off. Skunky decided to jump in. Now the previouse week i had gotten very drunk with this guy called Alixandre and had fallen over busting open my elbow, actually the cut was only small bt was deep, right down to the bone! any way i thought nothing of it being a stupid gringo!. So there i am swimming in a pool with a dog with an open wound in my elbow. Well anyhow i had found out a little later that Raphaelas father had not yet put any chlorine in the pool! Im sure you can beggin to see where this is going. Well a week later i was about to depart to start my travel around Brazil. The night before i left, my self Raphaela and a guy called Fabrisio (Raphaelas new boyfriend) went down to the local pool hall and had a few beers and played a couple of games of pool. Once we had finished i noticed a little tinge in my elbow. I thought i might just had jard it. But later that evening my whole arm had started to swell and i was in some of the worst pain i had ever been in with a huge lump which was growing by the minute on my elbow. Well needless to say i couldnt sleep the whole evening. When morning came raphaela and her family were very concerned they even thought that i had somehoe broken my elbow! So off we went instead of going to the coach station we went to the hospital and after a few hours of waiting the doctor decided that i didnt have a broken arm. So he sent me to another hospital and once again another few hours of waiting. Once i had been seen the doctors about 12 in all had decided that it was only a small infection and the swelling was only due to fluid build up and put me on some antibiotics. So off i went and by the tiem i had gotten to my next destination i was in agony! Anyway i ended up pulling this girl, Giselle was her name and i stayed with her for a week, as you do. But my arm was huge by this time the swelling had gotten worse and the lump went from near my shoulder down to my whist and even nearly joined up around my arm! Well needless to say Giselle was getting fed up with every time she even touched my arm in bed i would bloody scream in agony so she took me to see her uncle, who so happened to be a priofessor at a medical school near Sao Paulo. After a cearful and not to delicate examination he concluded that i had an advance case of Stephelococus (not to sure on the spelling but im sure you know what i meen) actualy a perticulaly mean strain, and he thought that i may need to go to hospital for an operation and if that didnt work then maybe amputation!!!
Thats me and Skunky in the pool in Brazil once i had recovered and there was chlorine in the pool, I think this was actually Christmas day.
Well after seeing a couple more doctors, they decided that it would be best to put me on these extremely potent pills which made me feel like crap and i wasnt allowed to drink for a month! Bugga!
Anyway they told me if it didnt get better within a week then they would have to opperate and if that didnt work then yes i would lose my arm from just below the shoulder!
Anyway i was fine after a few days the swelling had allready gone down and the lump had halved in size. So needless to say i was a wee bit relieved and finally able to have sex without pausing every time my arm touched something to scream.
When i went back to see Gisellle's unkle he was so happy with my progress, anyway he asked e some questions concerning where i could have contracted this strain. After telling him about the last few weeks in the country he concluded that i must have contracted it via the cut in my elbow and it must have come from Skunky! It turns out that this strain comes from DOG SHIT!. Anyway no hard feelings i still have an arm and im happythough to this day im plagued by problems with my elbow from where the bacteria had eaten away at the tissue around my elbow. But hey i still had a great time in Brazil though that wasnt my only problem i had in Brazil.
Im sure i will get into some of my other grussome stories of my times travelling another day.
So now ive got to finish fixing the sink in the bathroom and fix the bloody dishwasher so i bid you fairwell.
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mattoafilmscore:
wow. that sounds abso-fuckin'-lutely terrible.
_biblia_:
wow. not your average traveller, are you?