A SINGLETON ON LESBOS ISLAND - Part 6

Day Five; I had crashed and burned it wasn’t going to happen, Billie Big Bananas was a dead man. Woke up feeling like rubbish, dizzy, sweating and had trouble getting out of bed. I looked at the time, I had just missed breakfast. I needed the toilet and the only way to get there was on my hands and knees, so I crawled to the bathroom, afterwards taking some water back to the bed with me.

I needed help, nervously I phoned the good doctor, when she answered I told her, “I was dying, I think I’ve got malaria or something,” she replied, “You’ve got the wrong number, I think you need the vets.” I told her my symptoms and was unable to get out of bed,” she said “It’s probably man flue, I will be round in five, but you better be dying or you’re in trouble.” True to her word, there was a knock on the door, so I crawled to the door and let her in.

I told her about my condition, whilst she checked me out. She pulled out a thermometer from her bag and asked me, where would I like her to stick it? I suggested my mouth, she said “Are you sure, how about where sun does not shine.”

I went on to explain about the taverna incident on the shopping trip, saying, “I ended up trolleyed in the bar, due to circumstances beyond my control.” She replied, “Canoe Girl with the big chest, made you get all touchy feely with her, did she.”I had no answer, she said, “She had heard it all before.” There was a pause in the conversation.

She started telling me her life was not good when she was growing up. Her father was a chronic alcoholic, and had died when she was a teenager. It had left her a little uncomfortable in the company of drunks. I could see she was upset, I didn’t know what to say, so I just held her hand while she sat beside me in silence.

Then she stood up and said, “Billie boy you need to grow up, you have not stopped drinking since you have been here, and you have been suffering with the sun and the heat, you have just burned yourself out. You need to give yourself a couple of days rest. I will come and check up on you later.” Feeling dazed and confused I rolled over and slept for the rest of the day.

That evening I was woken by a knock on the door. It was the good doctor with a smiley face and a bag of goodies from the restaurant, she said, “It’s feeding time at the zoo.” We sat on the bed having a picnic, eating all the unhealthy food which makes you feel so good. With a smile she passed me a bottle of water saying, “Have you tried this before it’s very good for you, you know.” I came back with, “Don’t normally drink water, fish wee in it.”

We spent the rest of the evening chilling out, until the doctor received a phone call from Canoe Girl saying, “Would you mind having a look at one of the canoe team. He has an empty beer bottle stuck on each finger and thumb, on both hands, due to a drinking game.” The doctor turned to me and said, “Duty calls, I will catch up with you tomorrow,” then gave me a luscious kiss on the lips and then left.