Geez, I hope you and Nadi end up with some kind of legal immunity. Your ultimate goal is still back to Thailand right, assuming the path was possible and easy? Cambodia has more or less announced the land borders will be fully open to international crossings by the third quarter of this year.
I know at the moment ASEAN citizens are allowed to use land border crossings here, but I don't know the particulars yet. Hang in there my man, and don't share all the stressful details with Nad, she's probably still traumatized by the recent vet visit.
Getting back to Thailand is still the ultimate goal and there are many paths that I could take to make that happen. At the moment I am still enjoying the fact that I don't think there is any other place on earth that is as good of a value as Vietnam is so I am going to milk this puppy for all its worth before departing.
I hear that SEA is freaking out over monkeypox now though and Cambodia, Laos, and Thailand have already enacted preventative measures. It doesn't mean you can't get in, it's just one more roadblock.