In my last post I mention an interesting encounter with an octopus. Well now I think I am living to regret it. I think I caught something, and nothing good. I wasn't feeling good last night and when I got back to the hotel I realized that I had some pretty bad gastro stuff. Anyways, I went to work this morning and then left part way through because I wasn't feeling too good.
I took this opportunity to explore the Chinese pharmacy market. Wow. Now you may remember with my Mayflower post that when you are in a restaurant, you often have 8 people surrounding you while you order. Well a pharmacy is no different. Also, everything is in Chinese, and nobody speaks a word of English. So this experience involved playing sherades with the four clerks to try to get them to understand my problem.
First I made a drinking motion to simulate peptol bismal. The clerks brought me to the booze counter. Then I made a pill popping motion to simulate medicine, the clerk looked a little uneasy and motioned cocain sniffing back to me. No No No! Eventually I point to my rear and she brings me to the digestive system. I look at a few items, but they are all in chinese so the store clerk has to open them as there is a small blerb written in english inside the package.
I found one pack that said dysentary on the pack so I exclaim "yes, yes!". I think she understood that because she finnally smiled and sold it to me. I tried the pill, not sure what it would do, and I think I am feeling a little better now. Time will tell.
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