In response to the missing person report, the Sleaze has just arrived back in the States more dead than alive after 36 hours in transit. The following was posted a few days ago on TAGnet in response to a similar query as to why I disappeared. I caught hemorrhagic dengue in central Laos. It manifested shortly after I got to Thailand while I was camping in a horrible hellhole that was once paradise named Railay. My only regret was that I didn't kill the Thai rasta who insisted on playing techno music at midnight deep in the jungle while I lay shivering in my sweat soaked tent. I fled to Krabi and spent the next 13 daze in and out of the hospital. It was horrible, intense bone breaking pain at all times, crushing headaches, and ten hour cycles of hyperspazmodic shivering followed by spikes of 104 plus. There was no let up. My blood platelet count was so low that my wonderful Muslim doctor was afraid I would bleed out like an ebola victim. Ann (my personal angel!) was afraid I would go into shock and have a heart attack or alternatively get encephalitis and become a permanent vegetable. After I made a slight improvement we headed to Khao Sok so I could at least die in paradise. I did manage to take a few hikes but was prostrate most of the time. While there a freshwater puffer fish tried to bite my toe off. I am now in Bangkok and am still feverish and exhausted but will head home tomorrow. While in Thailand no snakes were caught, no caves were explored, and only the most minimal jungle was explored. The rest of the time I was laying flat, just like I intend to do in the next five minutes. I contented myself with watching the flying lizards in Khao Sok and feeding body parts to the fish and blood to the leeches. At least I had some fine adventures in Laos where I visited many caves, caught one snake, and explored some virgin forest.
SW
