so
so we're alive
yeah really somehow we went out when was it friday 12 days ago and we went out for dinner
and a few drinks we met some old aussie guys and had a couple of extra drinks and woke up
i woke up really badly hung over which didn't make sense because we didn't drink that much
no we left our scooter that we're on and got a taxi home so we had too much to drink but not
a stupid amount um my hangover got worse worse throughout the day and then the next day i was
still sick that's when i knew it wasn't a hangover it was something else um and then the third day
i had a really bad fever the third day mandy said like it scared me i was scared i could tell that
something like was seriously wrong because usually he wouldn't sleep that much and he was on fire i
could barely touch him his skin was so hot um so day three we said all right let's go to the
doctor and he did a blood test and straight away he said it's dingy fever but he was very casual
about it he's like oh just drink water it's just a mild case it'll be fine so we didn't just took
it lightly we went and sat by the pool um in kuda and then i started feeling um extra awful monday
night mandy started getting sick and by tuesday night she was really sick and i said let's just go
let's just see like you might have it as well and she did obviously and then they took my advice um
which my white blood cells and what is it your platelet my platelet had dropped quite a lot so
i'd actually started feeling better but my levels had dropped so the doctor wanted us to come back
in again the next day which was wednesday but we just fell oh we couldn't leave the hotel
we were yeah so we basically have been in bed for the past like over a week and had a
we had a doctor coming to our room doing blood tests every day and giving us vitamin d vitamin d
to try and get our levels back up mine mine kept dropping and she
recommended that i go to hospital but i felt okay um so she said instead she could
just come every 12 hours and take my blood to make sure my um whatever it's called platelet
yeah was increasing lloyd had very different symptoms than i did i got covered in a full
body rash my body was like felt like a sunburn slash itchy it was just the worst experience ever
and my hair started feeling like it was falling out
everything was just painful i wouldn't wish that on anybody that was like like
seriously the closest i've ever felt for dying like i've never felt that way before yeah
we were both pretty and the scary thing is just there's nothing you can really do except
hydrate and rest the doctors tell you there's no medicine or anything no you really need to um just
be keeping an eye on your blood levels because if they start dropping really quickly you're really
in a lot of trouble you need to be in hospital where they can monitor 24 7.
luckily in bali there's really good doctors yeah doctors that come to you yeah we were really
really impressed with the medical stuff especially the doctor and all her nurses that we had
i don't know what we would have done if she came around to us every day for about five days
and she just we was on whatsapp with us flat out making sure we're okay and checking in
so yeah we're really really really grateful to which i've had them
hopefully our insurance covers because it was it wasn't very cheap no yeah so definitely get your
travel and health insurance sorted before coming because you just have no idea like we didn't
obviously didn't plan for this and um if we didn't have travel insurance we would be pretty far in
the hole right now i think um had i've known it was dengue fever from the beginning it would
have been a bit better so if you get a fever of any kind don't wait a day just go to the doctor
because they'll be able to tell you straight away they'll do a blood test and tell you straight away
what it is and that's when you need to be doing iv drips and getting your blood monitored every
day to make sure that it's not because it can literally just happen in a matter of 12 hours
you could go from okay being okay to like dying yeah so we are now staying at the um the aston in
changu we decided just to check in to somewhere um that we can spend about a week to just to recover
um it's really nice it's just been raining a lot but um yeah we're just gonna spend the week here
and try and catch up on some work and um hopefully be able to do a bit more adventuring in the coming
weeks yeah at the moment all i really care about is getting healthy here mike was still very tired
yeah um apparently it takes two to three weeks to fully recover so just
i still have to get blood work done tomorrow as well lloyd's finished um he's got the all
clear but i still have probably one more day just to make sure that everything's all good
so just to summarize we just wanted to share our story because
um we did have a lot of other exciting travel videos planned um not dengue related but obviously
life doesn't always go as planned and we just wanted to share that story with it with everyone
because it is quite common to get dengue just i guess just to be careful wear tons of bug spray
and make sure that it's a bug spray that protects you from dengue which
apparently we didn't have um so but if you have any questions at all regarding
our experience of getting dengue here in bali we don't want to scare anyone or put anyone off
we just wanted to be open about what had happened and sort of explain why we're not putting out just
a regular travel video like we had planned if you have any questions or anything let
us know down in the comments um we i've also linked our travel and health insurance that we
have used which has has covered us for um for dengue and um all of our doctor visits as well
so i'll just leave that in the description and we will see you guys in the next video
you