#476 Thursday 5 January

After 30 hours of rest and not eating I'm getting some energy back. I had Bali-Belly in 1984 and this is the first time since.

We've been analyzing what we did wrong but it's hard to find any common factor that would explain why Kaylia and I got the bug .... but no-one else.
The medication story for this time away is interesting ..... We left home with over 56 tablets of Lovan .... and at 1.5 tablets per day we needed 28 x 1.5 = 32 tablets So we should have had heaps. We began a trial of splitting the dose (after the success of splitting the Risperdal dose) and it was very clear that the midday dose was highly effective .... but we still needed the full morning dose. So we had an increased dose rather than a split.
In past times we had found that the new higher dose produced a paradoxical reaction where the effect was the opposite of the aim. The current dose is the same higher level but split according to need. We have learned to recognize the tell-tale signs of anxiety .... a small top up at that time works really well! The overall daily dose is as high as the paradoxical period but by splitting the dose it works. But at the increased dose, we will run out of Lovan. I managed to get a supply locally but it's in a capsule form (so it is hard to divide) and it doesn't seem to be as concentrated .... despite being the same dose.

11am to 4pm - Padang Bai



A coastline of many small bays .... sandy beach for a few meters and then a rocky bottom.  Kaylia was enticed out here by ".... big car .... then beach".  She is loving it.  The beach sales people are very persistent.  I was taken in by Putuh ... her line is that she has 6 months more of high school then she wants to do economics at university.  If she does half as well at her studies as her selling, she will do well.



The sellers were very quick to recover from a faux pas .... "Your daughter?  (Naomi) .... She not your daughter?  You very lucky to have a young wife!" After the swim time, Kaylia just DID NOT want to leave!  It was a steep climb back to the car park .... and she cried tthe whole way.. The road from Sanur is much, much better than the last time we travelled that way (1997 I think) .... then it was a narrow single lane road ... now it's a dual lane (each direction) concrete road!  The signs say that the road is a joint Indo-Aust project.   Much of the road is lined with workshops producing statues and carvings.  We always drool and dream about what we will add to the villa in the future.