Have Perut Will Travel...: MKZ Day 3 │ A Recap: Bronchitis?

Day 3 — A Slow, Quiet Day

A bad bout of diarrhea and a nasty cough kept me up most of the night, so we decided to sleep in today. We woke up late, and by the time we left the Airbnb, it was already 11:30am. Brendan was still asleep, so we let him rest.

Back to Cheng Ho (Again!)

First things first — lunch. We headed back to Cheng Ho Hawker Centre for the third time in as many days. My perut was still quite sore from the “disturbances” earlier in the morning, so we both settled for rice porridge, something gentle and comforting.

Laundry Run

After lunch, we walked over to Super Dry nearby for a quick round of laundry. With that done, we turned our attention to something more pressing — my cough.

A Visit to the Clinic

Since the cough refused to go away, we drove a short distance to Klinik Melaka Jaya. After a thorough check up, the doctor suspected that I might be suffering from bronchitis. He would have preferred to get an X ray done, but since we were heading back to Kuala Lumpur the next morning, he decided against it.

I was prescribed a whole range of medication — including antibiotics and cough syrup — which effectively ended any hopes of roaming around Melaka today.

We drove back to the Airbnb, and I spent the rest of the afternoon under the covers, trying to rest and recover.

Heading Home Tomorrow

It wasn’t the most exciting day, but sometimes travel days turn out this way — slow, quiet, and focused on getting better.

Tomorrow, we head back to Kuala Lumpur.

P/S — The Final Diagnosis

Once we were back home, I eventually went for a full check up: blood and urine tests, a chest X ray, a CT scan, and even an Influenza A swab.

In the end, it turned out to be just a bad case of the common flu 😌