We’d hoped Martha would be feeling better when she awoke on Sunday but she didn’t.
She didn’t have a temperature but was itchy and part of her skin had peeled under her eye, as if it had washed off with tears. I’m posting this picture of the early signs of her illness so if it ever happens to anyone else it might help with earlier recognition.
I didn’t have a clue what it might be, we were racking our brains to link it to something that had happened recently – possibly an insect bite in her armpit on Wednesday evening for which she’d taken some Piriton, maybe sunburn without us realising before we left Canada.
We kept looking up online health sites such as The NHS website, wondering if a soothing cream or an antibiotic cream would help and wanted to ask a pharmacist.
Yesterday Mike hadn’t managed to get to a pharmacy from the hotel due to a protest march near by, and then today when we did get there we found out that the pharmacists don’t work on Sundays.
If we’d been at home we would have rung the NHS 111 service for advice and they may have directed us to the out of hours GP service at this point. I did wish I was back home with all the support of the NHS around us.
I investigated the Hong Kong health system and found that we could pay for a family practice doctor’s appointment locally – we decided that we would visit the pharmacist first thing and then see a doctor in the morning.
