Architect Abroad

What to do when sickness knocks on your door…and your door is in another country? Well that is what we figured out when we were supposed to be spending a week touring Georgia. No matter how you try to avoid it, when you are gone for any stretch of time, your chance of sickness is going up the longer you spent further afield. With transiting now through lucky country number 13, Mike was the first person to succumb to intense stomach cramps and the inevitable fall out from that. Eventually we all got kind of sick, but none as much as my hubby.

So step 1 to convalescence was to cancel our crappy AirB&B that smelled of swamp gas and had soft floors and peeling wall paper and move into a better AirB&B in a better part of town. This one had a second washroom attached to the master bedroom upstairs, and ensured more separation from the sick to the healthy. The other perk of this area was that it was out of the major construction zone that was in the old town, so a bit less jack hammering (we are somehow a magnet for selecting places that have construction right outside of them), and we got to actually interact with locals in the more arts and culture area of the city. Unfortunately, all of us were kind of sick at this point, so no one was grocery shopping / cooking, and the daily pilgrimage to the Ramen shop for soup pretty much took all of the strength we gained while watching Netflix on the couch.

So what was the sickness, well who knows? All it did for me was ensure was that I extended my travel insurance plan, and discover that the travel sickness pills I got from my doctor before we left were kind of useless against this bug. Sometimes you instinctively know when it is worth trying to enact your insurance to grab a doctor, which we tried to do and failed with our cell phone plan, and which sicknesses you can just ride out by drinking enough clean water. I finally convinced Mike the way to health was not to starve your body of water, but to flush out whatever bug you have.

The trouble is that we are going to some places where we can and where we can’t drink the water, so we have been doing our best to abide by that, but perhaps some of the places we are eating at have been the culprit. There was one place on the Azerbaijan silk road area that for sure could have been the culprit. Anyway, we are all right as rain now and ready to get back out there. Watch out world, we are coming.