And so Korea became a longer than expected vacation

Time to fill in those who actually read this and don't know what's been going on.

The original vacation was meant to be only from January 21 till February 1. It was supposed to be a 3 day snow board trip including the Lunar New Year and then a week hanging out with my brother.

Lo and behold what ended up happening I crashed while snowboarding and opened a wound in my left butt cheek almost 25cm long and 7cm deep, I lost almost a litre of blood, which was quite a spectacular sight when its sprayed all over the snow. The muscle in there was pretty much severed. Despite that, it was one of those freakish lucky wounds. An inch more to one side and I would have cut in to my neurovascular system and even if I didn't bleed to death I probably would have lost the ability to control my leg. Thats according to my doctor, who is one of the senior surgeons in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery. That ended up costing me a 2 week stay in hospital. Now that I'm out, I have another 2 and a half months before the muscle is fully knitted up.

This little adventure into the Korean health system has left me in a great deal of debt to a lot of pepole. Big Uncle Gerry for one whose contacts with the doctors over here enabled me to be put in the care of the senior most surgeon of the department. Bev's friend Cho Hee Jin who I owe so much that I doubt I can repay her in this lifetime. Without her to help translate and arrange stuff I'd be hella lost. And of course Bevvy boy who's put up with all the tiresome chores of taking care of his dopey-ass brother.