Conditional on 1. I am not a medical person 2. At least some of the conversations were done in pigeon English or pathetic attempts at Thai.
He is still in the Government Hospital (by Nong Prajak) and will be for (optimistic estimate) another week - I think longer.
His broken bones have been repaired. His right leg is still pretty swollen & bruised & shows obvious signs of surgery. No caste though, which I would have thought would have - maybe Wazza can comment!!
Little finger of right hand broken - so not too bad & can pretty freely move his jaw, but can't really apply any pressure to chew, for example.
Doctor says that without wearing a crash hat he was a certain dead one..
However the impact has caused some (short term) damage. Brain is bruised from the battering it took on his skull & is swollen. The doctor says no bleeding or anything like that (have NO idea how he established that as not sure if MRA or anything like that was done). Doc says it will get better with rest & that is all that will cure it.Michael himself was sort of 'vague' (anyone who knows him well might say - well what is new
). For example he immediately recognized me, knew my name & recounted some thoughts on places we have both visited in the past. But he also said some things that had me completely perplexed & (to me) made no sense & were about things that had happened long before we met - but like I was there as well 
. His short term memory is pretty shot at the moment as well, or maybe it is more accurate to say his retention of things told him is not as it should be.Doc. is happy it will improve as the brain shrinks back to its normal size & thinks that is not a long term issue.
He is on one of the general wards in the hospital so I would not even try & give directions - it is quiet a walk from the main entrance though. The staff (security & nursing) were all very helpful in assisting me on my way.
If anyone does pay him a visit i will say that the parking is a complete nightmare for the hospital. Very lucky indeed if you manage to park within half a mile of the entrance...
