Massage, 4/20 and trekking

It was my first full body (thai) oil massage, which I mainly did because a friend was going, otherwise these places make me feel a bit uncomfortable (maybe because of the stoma, maybe I just have intimacy issues)
Anyways I was really annoyed that afterwards I found I had a leak, probably from when I was lying on my front. Apart from the boat diving incident this is the first time I've had a leak whilst wearing the SenSura Mio 2 piece bags. I think I might have run out of them now...
The other notable thing that happened is that it was 4/20 which I'm told is international weed smoking day, so I thought I'd have a bit. I'm not usually that into it but once in a while doesn't hurt. I feel uncomfortable with drugs that completely disable you, which kinda happened -I sparked out in a hammock for a while and hopefully if I'd needed to I could have made it to the toilet, I really really really didn't want to get up! As well as all kinda of crazy thoughts going on in my head and feeling really unsociable meant that I didn't particularly enjoy the session that much.
Finally the last thing I did before heading back to Bangkok to fly home was to go trekking for 2 days in the North Thai jungle (well it wasn't that jungley, it was a national park). This turned out to be a bit of a bad idea because I got diarrhea the night before. One thing I didn't want is to be in the jungle with no toilets, 35 degree heat and an upset stomach. I had to spend 2 days battling dehydration and feeling exhausted. I was super glad that I didn't actually have to 'use' the few toilets that there were available because I don't know how to use a squat toilet!
The diarrhoea continued after the trek while I'd already booked the overnight bus to Bangkok, again not the place you want to use the toilet! And I felt too exhausted when in Bangkok to actually do anything, so booked a super nice, chilled hostel to spend the day before flying home. On the advice of the pharmacist in Bangkok, I bought some oral antibiotics. Thankfully my stomach improved during the flight home so I'm hopeful that it was just traveller's tummy, not the start of a flair up.

Songkran

Songkran is the Thai new year festival where everyone throws water over each other in the street. In recent years it has turned into one big water fight and is loads of fun, especially in chiang mai in Northern Thailand where it lasts a few days longer than in the rest of the country. Water balloons are illegal here so my advice is to bring some with you!

Elephant wipes

I'm running low on 2 piece bags so have been trying to use up the one piece bags. But They are not working for me at all! I dont know if it's the heat but they just leak all the time. I'm getting very good at changing in unusual places. Today I had to change at an elephant sanctuary and I was so glad I had bought wet wipes because there was no water there! Always have wet wipes!

Phone got stolen!

I'm sorry I haven't updated for a long time! This is partly because my phone got stolen but mainly because I've been having too much of a good time :)
Every now and then I have been treating myself to a private room rather than staying in shared dorms and I was super lucky the other day when I stayed chatting in the common area even though I knew I had a leak. When I got back to my room to change I had almost blown through the whole thing! It's so much easier to do a change in a proper bathroom at the sink rather than having to change in shared showers and toilet cubicles.
That reminds me; I didn't bring enough dry wipes with me because I thought I could buy them out here but it doesn't seem like you can. So I bought two packets of baby wipes; one for cleaning up and the second I will let them dry out so I can use them for to dry the skin before applying a new bag.
I went on a half day climbing trip on railay beach, that was really good but I also got a leak that day too. It seems to happen when wearing the sensura one piece so I think I just need to always wear the two piece. That reminds me! I was wearing a two piece that was a few days old, I've started this trick of using [medical] tape to patch up the flange after a few days when it starts to unstick in order to get an extra day or two of wear (they are usually lasting about 2 days without this and 3-4 days with this approach). I was on a boat tour in Ao Nang and dived head-first into the water from the long tail boat. My bag almost ripped completely off! I was wearing the under/swimwear from white rose collection which is pretty tight, so I kinda managed to secure if on just using the waistband of those and my swimshorts, and luckily it wasn't long after that when we stopped for dinner and I changed in the toilet cubicle. I was so glad I had a change with me! I've started keeping individual wrapped changing kits so it's super easy to pop one into a day bag or grab one to change in the shared bathrooms that you get in hostels.

One other thing is that I went to a pool party on Koh Phi Phi, I felt pretty self conscious there in case anyone noticed my under-swimwear. I'm the end no one mentioned it so hopefully it wasn't obvious and I met some nice (drunk?) Canadians to hang with for the rest of the night.

On that note, only two people have noticed the under swimwear

 and asked me what it is; the first one came from a tactless Italian guy, who asked loudly in front of everyone on the boat trip and left me a bit flustered (I'm not exactly confident and experienced at explaining at the best of times) the second one was from a nice bloke called Bob.

Bob: what's that? A stoma?
Me: Yep
Bob: really?
Me: Yep. Crohn's disease.

That's it. Easiest explanation ever.

I'm rambled on for long enough so I'll leave you with one last thought; I'm loving the beday thing (bum gun!) you get in every Thai toilet. No need to use TP just rinse the opening and go.