 what's going on you guys welcome back welcome back to another video and welcome back to another Tiger Muay Thai vlog today um marks shit how long since I've been back I'm just gonna sit down here guys um it must be about a week and a half since I got back from Thailand yes about a week and a half um today's video I want to discuss injuries because there were a few and there was actually one particular one that I brought back with me from Thailand believe it or not but actually in saying believe it or not you probably would believe it because there's all sorts of bugs and there's not just bugs over there they're super bugs because what I've found is that antibiotics in Thailand are thrown out like candy and what that means is that you know for a bug to overcome antibiotics they need to become a superbug and what I believe I got a couple of days before leaving Thailand was some sort of mosquito bite which usually would come up in a bit of a welt and and go away that didn't happen this bite got worse and worse and basically what I think happened is I scratched it whilst I was in Thailand I must have got some sort of bug in there and then honestly like literally whilst I was flying back which was oh my god that bird just gave me a freaking heart attack whilst I was flying back you know I could see this thing on my leg get worse and worse and worse and worse and I thought what is going on here so I got back to Alice Springs I was extremely worried it was blowing up like a bite it looked like a spider bite I'd had one spider bite in the past and the longer you leave it without doing something about it that the more it's basically just gonna start eating like your flesh right at the end of the day so that's basically what what started happening to me so I got this massive I guess it looked like a boil but at the end of the day something something bad was going on underneath there and so I ended up going to the emergency room you know they took a look at it they gave me some antibiotics and and sent me away they didn't you know take a swab they didn't cut it open nothing like that so I went away I went home all good got antibiotics felt at ease three days go by and take my antibiotics but nothing's happening it's getting worse and worse and worse you know this is because there was an infection under there and they didn't it needed to come out it needed to it needed to be cleaned out so basically it was you know producing this is disgusting but pass and it wasn't stopping coming out it wasn't healing over you know what I mean like on a spider bite it doesn't heal over because there's something underneath it so you need to really clear that out you need to literally cut it open clear that out and then try and let it heal because when you've got a mixture of blood and infection coming out it doesn't heal you need just blood so what happened was after three more days I woke up but actually over those three days progressively this red mark start it's on my it's on my leg by the way here it is right here so this these red marks started slowly creeping up my leg and you know me being sort of a hypochondriac of sorts I thought that this infection which is exactly what it was doing it was spreading up my my veins you know towards my my groin where my what do you call them lymph nodes were swollen as fuck they were so sore and here I am in my brain not really understanding what's going on seeing these fucking red marks slowly but surely come up my leg pains were coming up my legs over those three days and I thought nah man something is going wrong here this infection is gonna fucking infiltrate my heart and I'm gonna be heart attack you know I was really panicking I was panicking big time so I went back in this is you know after being back for four for four days being on the antibiotics for at least three I went back in showed them it and he's like no okay yeah that looks like something's going on we're gonna have to clean that out so that's exactly what they did and anyone with the spider bite or an infected bite will know that's what happens but you know it was it was a little bit scary I suppose but you know the doctor I will say here at the Alice Springs Medical Center put me at ease they numbed it they cut it open they squeezed everything out and then hoped that with another course of antibiotics it would heal and I will say that literally within a couple of hours of them cleaning it out the dull achy pain started going away the red marks started literally you know receding back down my leg and within two more days everything started healing properly and so here I am basically on my last day of antibiotics and I'm not gonna go back into the the hospital because I I do believe that it is healing thank God but basically guys that was that was a little bit of an injury I suppose of sorts that I brought back from Thailand with me and if I hadn't have gone into the the hospital when I did it would have just gotten worse and worse and if I hadn't have gone in a second time and got it cleaned out I don't think it would heal properly so you know listen to your body if you think something's going on go in and get it checked out that would be my recommendation now before these flies go in my mouth or something worse I'm gonna head inside and continue talking in there because one thing I won't miss guys is the fucking flies here in Alice Springs it's ridiculous so anyway I will show you what it's looking like that's it right there as you can see that the skin is like still peeling off from the outside that was a whole lot worse and then up here these you know basically that the I assume the red was inflammation going up my veins towards my towards my towards my I can't remember what they called lymph nodes that's the one okay so and that's what was happening the lymph nodes started swelling because it's fighting and fighting an infection and the infection was spreading up to my lymph nodes and that was the point where I really panicked and I had to go back in and and lucky I did because you know like I said once they cleaned it out it was all good now we're talking about injuries this video is not you know meant to go that long but it probably is look I'm just talking about injuries that I received whilst training in Thailand that one wasn't training related but it was Thailand definitely Thailand related and something that I think you should all be concerned about long behold it happened a couple of days before I was leaving honestly it really started swelling up bad whilst I was traveling so I knew that as soon as I got back to Australia you know I'd go and get it checked out and I'd be in good hands now if I was in Thailand and you know I was having to take antibiotics and stuff I'd be a little concerned you know it's not where you want to be you don't want to be in a country like that where you're sweating all the time there's all these bugs around with open cuts and and I've learnt my lesson to be honest because I had a couple of other cuts on my feet that got infected also but thankfully I don't know I don't know if it's because I took the antibiotics from my other issue but it seemed to help the other cuts as well and so they've sort of healed up now but the main one was was right on the top of my foot right right there and there was another one on the inside of my toe which is finally healed but basically that one on the top of my foot was really was it was bad it was bad to be honest I honestly I can't remember how I did it I think I must have like scraped it along the bottom of a heavy bag or something but it opened up a cut I took a day off training it healed slightly and then I went back to training and I started it like kicking the pads and kicking the bags and and that first day I pushed through the pain basically my first kick it the scab came off right so you got an open cut and I'm doing a Muay Thai class it hurt like fuck but I continued I let it heal over for another day I came back I hit the bag once it fucking hurt the scab didn't come off but I was like no I can't be doing this I can't I can't open it up again or else this will literally never heal and low and behold it fucking never healed I got back to I got back to Australia it's been another week and a half and it's still not healed and I think what happened was you know it was actually quite deep it was a really quite deep cut and I guess usually you might have got a stitch or something like that but what needed to happen was obviously the the tissue needs to start growing from right at the bottom of it and I just never gave it a chance to heal so what I would do next time to you know stop that from even happening in the first place is get some of those ankle and foot sleeves now I never saw them before I started training but I did see a few people with them on and I thought it's gonna protect your foot but I'm tough you know I can I can deal with a few cuts but at the end of the day if you do get a cut and it's not healing properly you have to take care of it and it's gonna put you out of training for days you know if I wanted to continue kicking with this foot I don't know how I was gonna do it except for put one of those sleeves on my foot and I never did but that's definitely a recommendation that I would I would give you another one of my injuries was a some tendonitis in my Achilles tendon which I treated with anti-inflammatories and ice spray which I got from the pharmacy there literally I had the symptoms for 24 hours and then they were gone and I haven't had any since I don't know if that's a bit of bruising that happened or what I mean I was really really surprised with how quickly the pain went away and I was really happy that I actually pushed through that pain to train on the day that it was the worst because you know if I had have had a day off training thinking that this was gonna give me trouble for days and days and then it went away the next day I would have felt cheated I would have thought fuck I just wasted a day of training so I pushed through that one and I also pushed through the one on my foot but it didn't work out too good for me so anti-inflammatories if you do get any sprains or you know anything like that company that accompany that with either an ice pack or some of this ice spray and just continue treating it until until the you know inflammation goes away that seemed to be a really good fix definitely if you do get cuts cover them okay cover them I'm the kind of guy that that doesn't like covering cuts because it doesn't let it you know get air to it doesn't let it dry out I hate doing it but at the end of the day when you've got bugs like that you know going around everywhere and in bacteria and everything like that you should be covering your cuts and so moving forward I definitely do that try and stop them from happening in the first place by wearing the ankle sleeves foot sleeves I don't even know what you call them but they're definitely effective yes the only other thing that really held me back was you know dehydration honestly that's just on you and it was on me and basically guys when you're in a place like that where it's so humid and you're training as well you know it's not easy you're gonna start sweating within a minute and it's not gonna stop until about an hour after you finish so you're sweating buckets and you may not feel thirsty but your body needs that water and basically it's just a matter of you know being on to it throughout the day you've got to continue drinking continue drinking water even when you're not thirsty just keep drinking it because it's gonna catch up to you and you'll wake up in the morning having not drank much water the day before and you'll wake up with a headache and it's like fuck I didn't even drink last night and I've got a headache you're kidding me and basically it's it's just hydration it really is that's that's another thing you've got to keep on top of you can get sachets from the chemist of electrolytes a flavored orange flavor or tropical flavor I only had those in the last few days which is probably my bad you know I was sweating I was sweating a lot but if you're not taking back in those electrolytes and sodium and things like that then you know your body is is gonna be feeling it at the end of the day so that that's important make sure you drink a shitload of water basically you go to 7-eleven you get a 1.5 litre bottle for 14 baht which is 65 cents Australian and you just have those I mean it is a bit of a fuck around having to go down to the shop and buy these big bottles of water and bring them back to your room and put them in the fridge but once you've done it you know there's nothing worse than being in your room and not having any water to drink and you're feeling thirsty and you know you just need that on hand all the time that would be a recommendation and now my last recommendation would be just don't push yourself too hard you know take it easy don't go and and smash yourself with two or three classes on the first day you know I'd say just do one it's a two hour class see how you go literally do one on your first day and on your second day on your third day you can start ramping it up but I'd say on your first and second day just do one make sure you're staying hydrated make sure you've got all the gear that you need and just have fun man have fun embrace it it's an amazing experience I I loved it I loved the trainer that I was working with you know I'm a complete beginner absolute beginner no expectations but yeah it was two and a half weeks of something I've always wanted to do and I definitely definitely tick something off the bucket list whilst there so I'm happy about that and I hope that you've enjoyed the videos I hope that if you are thinking about doing it I hope that you tell me down in the comment section below or hit me up on Instagram my channel is not just about rugby it's not just about bodybuilding it's not just about football it's not just about reactions it's about all sorts of shit it's about me my life what makes me happy what makes me tick and it's about being honest open transparent and bringing my experiences and my thoughts to the world through the power of YouTube and I fucking love it so what do we got injuries my Kelly's tendon that was fine cut on my foot definitely keep it covered or try not to get cut bites make sure you keep them clean and then you probably won't have to deal with what I did but I didn't keep mine clean and so it blew up completely I would say you know health insurance travel insurance I didn't have either okay so I got through it thank God you may not be as as lucky I was riding a scooter the whole entire time I was there I got a motorbike on the second day I rode it with no shoes at times you know I always had my helmet on but at the end of the day man I could have fucked up my foot if I fell off so be safe be happy but I think if you are staying in Thailand around Soitayid Puket Taigamoitai you know you could be training at any of the places along the street there's a multitude of different places but if you are training at Taiga and you are around that area you'll know what kind of vibe it is it's an amazing vibe fitness fighting and the land of smiles and make sure you take your smile because you're gonna need it okay so I'll see in the next one peace out