Mean people keeping me from horse racing

[Merlinsky]

Originally Posted by my miss storm cat

Oh my God I'm dying reading this. I can't imagine being in Hong Kong and being in your postition, poor baby!

I am sending you the biggest damned hug, I swear!

Sunday is the Hong Kong Mile... it's really a shame you can't stay an extra day.

In a show of solidarity I am now completely depressed for your sake.

Aw thanks, I appreciate the support everybody. Still suffering from what I'm calling "Ho Chi Minh's Revenge" but it's controllable to a point. I lost a day of excursions basically beyond our meetings today, but I think we're doing Macau tomorrow as a group. My bowels aren't being 100% cooperative, but I won't crap myself on the ferry thanks to some amount of self-control. I just need frequent bathroom breaks. I held my supper down successfully thus far. The wine might've helped. I figured it would either help me feel better or not care that I felt bad. When I heard about Sunday being the next big race day it just about made me ill again. I am determined to get a good view of the track but my great plan of going and taking pictures for everybody probably won't work out. I got some blurry ones as we went by.

My big goal in life, as awesome as this is, is to go to Melbourne Cup day. Okay maybe I want to do other things, but seriously I'd put that right up there. I suppose I should keep the illness-in-Hong-Kong situation under perspective. I got to listen to races on the internet though and discovered my hotel had a racing channel. All was not entirely lost. Now I shall drag myself back into bed momentarily. Must make it to Macau without causing an international intestinal incident.