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The Beauty Of Sickness. The Grandeur Of Silence.

December 12, 2011 By Laura Dal Farra 3 Comments

 

View From My Window, Buriram, Thailand, 2011

 

One week of illness. The body’s reaction to medication I had mistaken for an antihistamine. Eczema, perhaps psiriosis covered thighs made walking painful. The rubbing caused the affliction to spread, my thighs to bleed. My face. Back. Neck. Hands. Few places were spared.

 

Then a fever of some genus arrived.

 

Nineteen hours of sleep one night. A forgotten amount the next. And the next.

 

Small pieces of verbal exchange during the week. Buying calamine and antihistamines early in the week. Answering my phone to inform someone I wasn’t available. My nightly walk to the lobby to purchase that which I’ve been sustaining myself on since I ran out of all but rice five days ago – cookies, ice cream and milk. A handful of words a day.

 

One full conversation. A call from Canada last evening.

 

Internet. No television. No visitors. Sleeping until mid or late afternoon.

 

This neighbourhood retires early. The sun begins to set at six.

 

Seven days. One room.

 

No loneliness. No grasping. An enclave.

 

Stepping forth into public life this afternoon, my senses are awakened. Little internal dialogue.

 

Unexpected beauty in sickness. In forced solitude.

 

Sunday, November 6, 2011

 

Read the next memoir, Notes From The Road – On The Bus, here.

Read the last memoir, Racism In Thailand – The Day In The Life Of A White Woman In Buriram, Thailand, here.

 

Filed Under: Memoir, Thailand Tagged With: Buriram

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About Laura Dal Farra

After a six month adventure training Muay Thai in Thailand in 2007, Laura Dal Farra returned to her native Canada, sold most of what she owned, and boarded a plane set for Bangkok alone. She spent the next 3.5 years training in traditional Muay Thai gyms, pushing her limits, and embracing the unknown. Realizing little was being written on the subject, she began to blog about it. Laura Dal Farra is the founder of Milk.Blitz.Street.Bomb.

Comments

  1. Davie Pocstar says

    December 12, 2011 at 05:40

    that was friggin’ beautiful

    Reply
    • ldf says

      December 16, 2011 at 19:45

      thanks davie!

      Reply
  2. Eldridge says

    October 3, 2014 at 11:52

    Dem Ice cream and cookies will keep ya sick longer cuz germs feed on sugar. Coloidal silver FTW . Have it where ever you travel, No virus can survive silver NO VIRUS. That includes aids, ebola, etc Doctors wont tell ya, most of em anyway cuz they arent taught that and those in control that know wont tell any1 cuz if people cure themselves, the Big Pharma industry loses money.

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