Just finished a phone call. (sighs) It's 1 AM. To give a quick summary, I didn't do much during the day. In the morning, I just ate chicken biryani from the usual place because I didn't know what else to eat. My parents are still sick, so my mom hasn't been cooking, and we've been buying food outside.
I didn't do much in the afternoon, but around 4 or 5 PM, I went to the gym. I just did incline walking. It was pretty crowded. It rained all day today, actually, from last night until just recently. Some areas in Krabi are already flooded from how heavy it was.
Sky came to visit around 6 PM, right when I got back from the gym. Sky brought some things back from India: chocolate snacks, other sweets, and perfume. My sibling and I each got a bottle, different scents. The packaging and bottles look really nice. I was so grateful.
(laughs) I've actually never used perfume before. I don't really know how to use it, or rather, I know the basics, but I don't use it regularly because I don't go out much. (laughs) Anyway, they smell good. My sibling's is stronger, and mine is a bit softer.
We decided to go get shabu. There were four of us: Sky, P'Earn, my sibling, and me. P'Poom was busy, and Pon finished work at 9 PM, so they couldn't come. We got a table for six and started with a beer with Sky.
They had a special menu this month: soft pork with Jaew Hon soup. I'd had it before for my dad's birthday. This soup has dried chilies in it. We ordered it again, and for some reason, we kept asking for more dried chilies — four times! We were just eating the chilies themselves, for no reason. I still don't understand why we did it.
Towards the end, I remember eating the last one with Sky. We were just going back and forth, eating chilies. I didn't chew it; I just swallowed the dried chili whole. Suddenly, I started feeling a tightness in my stomach, then pain. I told Sky, "My stomach is starting to hurt."
P'Earn, who's a nurse, said it was probably the chilies and that I should get ready to take Air-X. I felt so full, like I was going to vomit. I went to the bathroom, thinking I might throw up.
While sitting in the bathroom, my hands started sweating and feeling hot, then they went numb. Both hands were so numb I could barely move them; I couldn't feel anything. I was sweating, my heart was racing. (laughs) I felt like something was really wrong, and I started to panic. I've never experienced anything like that before, even though I eat very spicy food, spicier than Sky. I don't know what happened.
I told Sky, "Take me to the hospital, take me to the hospital!" We hadn't even finished eating, but we'd been there for over an hour. "Please go, Sky, quickly!" Sky helped me into the car, then ran back to tell my sibling and P'Earn. They quickly packed up the table. I kept saying, "Go, go, I can't wait!" My hands were numb, I was sweating, I had a headache, and my stomach hurt. I was panicking; I didn't know what was going to happen. (laughs) Sky drove as fast as he could. I wanted him to run red lights, but he told me to calm down, that it would just cause more problems.
He said there was water in the back of the car. I took a sip as we got close to the hospital. (sighs) I started feeling a little better, but my hands were still tingly. We rushed into the emergency room at a private hospital. The nurse asked what happened. (laughs) I said, "I ate shabu. I ate chilies." (laughs) They probably thought, "Why would you do that?" (laughs)
They checked my blood pressure. I was already starting to feel better by then, almost back to normal. (laughs) I almost told them not to examine me, but I was already there. (laughs) P'Earn and my sibling arrived. The restaurant owner even came, surprised, thinking something was wrong with their food. (laughs) No, it was the chilies. (laughs) We really went looking for trouble.
I lay on the bed for a bit. The doctor came and asked if I was okay, if I still had symptoms. I said I was fine now, the shaking was gone, just a stomach ache. They asked if I wanted an injection. I said yes. While waiting for the doctor, I opened a chat and asked an AI what had happened.
It said that the capsaicin in dried chilies, when eaten directly, goes straight to the stomach. Normally, when chilies are cooked in food, the capsaicin is reduced, and the spiciness mostly affects your mouth, not your stomach. But eating them directly causes the capsaicin to react with the digestive juices, sending false signals to the body, making it panic and release adrenaline. It also suggested eating ice cream or trying to breathe slowly. I had tried to breathe slowly when it started, but then my hands went numb, and I panicked. (laughs) If I had gotten that scoop of ice cream I was going to get, maybe I wouldn't have needed to go to the hospital.
Then the bill came: 6,000 baht! (laughs) What the f**! 6,000 baht for less than ten minutes. They said it was 3,000 for the injection and 3,000 for medicine. (laughs*) I said no injection, just the medicine. That brought it down to 3,000 baht. They asked me to sign a consent form. My insurance doesn't cover this; it only covers if I'm admitted overnight. So, it seemed like I was stuck with the bill.
But when I went to the payment counter, it was only 1,600 baht. What a relief! Otherwise, my mom would definitely scold me for spending money on something so silly. (laughs) Most of it was for the after-hours doctor's fee and the emergency room fee. (sighs) I haven't talked to my parents about it yet, but I probably will tomorrow. (laughs) I still wonder about that 3,000 baht consent form they made me sign.
When I got back home, I was mostly fine, just a slight stomach ache, probably some irritation. I played ROV with friends on Discord and told them the whole story. (laughs) My friends joked, "Have you measured your grave yet?" (laughs) That's just how we tease each other. (laughs) This is probably my longest entry yet, fourteen minutes. Okay, I'm going to sleep now.