sweetwillyp

Knock on Wood, I am very healthy as of right now and I am planning to stay that way. as of right now. I have found my airfare and I am going to be staying at the Globetrotter or Jasmine mansion. Also I have a Budget for $150 or 4700baht per day for fun not including food. So I am crossing my fingers and hoping nothing will happen between now and July

I have mentioned in passing about why I have taken so long to get to Thailand so here is the story. In 2000, I had a great job as a Foreman for a Fiber-Optics Division of a major company, I was pulling down $100k a year and having fun. A friend of mine said to take a vacation and that I deserved one. I did research online and I came upon Pattaya. I knew that I wanted a beach,Pay for play girls and some place exotic compared with the USA. My plan was to go in late November 2001. As everyone knows, 911 hit and then I got nervous. December 2001, I booked my flight to Pattaya with Expedia, everything was ready to go. I had a flight, a hotel room in N. Pattaya at the Amari Orchid, and I had $4000 in travelers checks. I left my house early to get to the airport. At that time it was recommended that you arrive 2 hours early for International travel. I arrived 2.5 hours early and found that there was a huge line at the counter. I spent 4 hours in line, when I finally got to the counter the agent was helpfull but because of the limited flights they only had one leaving that day. I said "ok I will take it" They said ok instead of Seattle to Narida to Bangkok, it's going to be Seattle to London to Moscow to Bangkok with a travel time of 48 hours. As much as I wanted to go, I said no way and cancelled the trip and I went home. I worked my ass off for the next year and a half, In 2003 I was planning to goto Pattaya in the off season around August or September, but this time I was going to make it a last minute type of plan basically get the tickets 1 month ahead of time from a Travel agent friend of mine. In July of 2003, I was rushed to the hospital with what was thought to be a simple case of Gallstones. I had ignored my health for so long that I ended up with a ACUTE case of Pancreatitis. The Doctors Recommended that they let the Pancreatitis calm down before they operate for the gall stones. I waited three days and went into surgery. When I came out of surgery something didn't feel right and I told the Doctor and he said it was normal. About 5 hours after I went into shock from my temperature being some where above 105. When they had taken out my Gallblader it had fused to my Pancreas thus ripping a part my Pancreas out and causing my Digestive Fluids to go inside my body giving me third degree chemical burns inside my body. I ended up Dying and being resusatated. I wasn't getting any better and the Doctors couldn't find out what was going on " I was inside the hospital for a month and a half at this point" The doctors then sent me to a bigger hospital. I was in for a few days when they found that I had MRSA staff infection that I had caught from the other hospital and I was going down quickly During this time was my second Experiance with Death. I spent another month in the hospital until I was allowed home to Recuperate. After a few more corrective surgerys I was left with $400K in medical bills Luckily paid mostly by my insurance and NO job This was April 2004 In 2004 I got back to work and started paying off bills like a madman and in June 2007 I had finally gotten to the point where I was back in 2002 when this whole nightmare started. As of right now I am planning to come to Pattaya in July 08 to spend two weeks I desperatley need a vacation