Tasty and Hygienic or Note to Myself Not to go to Asia During the Monsoon

Unfortunately, not all things in Nepal and India are tasty and hygienic...

Thus, I have spent the last eight days making sure my husband didn't die from most likely typhoid fever. When I last wrote, I said he was on the mend...oh how wrong I was!

The last five days have found us surrounded by needles, iv's, blood samples and transitioning through three different hospitals here in India--k alternately burning with fever, shaking uncontrollably, sweating, writhing with nausea and unable to eat or drink for days and days. Scary business.

We were in the Namdroling hospital for two days. K laying in a three bed room next to a monk with typhoid. All the monks telling me not to worry, that everyone there gets typhoid and it's not a big deal. Oh yeah, except it can kill you!

Then we went to the Columbia Asia hospital in Mysore, which seemed like a step in the right direction, or at least a few hours closer to the airport! In Mysore, the doctor accused K of being a pill popper for taking round the clock Tylenol and ibuprofen for trying to control his fever of 104...When we said we wanted to be transferred to the Columbia Asia in Bangalore, we were told, "You'll have to take a tax because he's not really sick."

So after a three hour taxi ride last night, we ended up here at the biggest hospital in the area. I was immediately reassured by the real emergency room and how K was immediately whisked away and his vital signs checked and history taken. We are finally in really good hands here. And the best part? k really Is on the mend this time!! He hasn't had a real fever in two days and as of yesterday can actually eat and drink! The gray pallor is Gone! Woohoo...His doctor thinks we'll be able to fly Home Tuesday or Wesnesday-here's hoping...