Sickly...

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Basically I am sick. It started off as a sore throat (I got one of those last time I was in India, probably from all the exhaust you have breathe here - and possibly from all the burning piles of plastic trash you occasionally get a lungful of. My throat is sensitive like that... it gets sore whenever I go to LA or other place with a lot of traffic too) but then it got infected with something else that webmd says is most likely "acute bronchitis" (also a top result: "the cold") which for me is basically a really, really deep cough that is almost always completely dry and left me with some horrible headaches, and only seemed better with tons of tea and hot water, which led me to waking up in the night to pee with nearly alarming frequency, especially because when I'd wake up I wouldn't fall back asleep without some more hot water to drink to soothe my lungs.

Christoph caught it from me too, probably, and we decided that we should go to the doctor because it only seemed to get worse day after day, and all cough syrups I tried seemed like the aggravated it more than anything (the one pictured above was one of 4 different types we tried, to little to no avail.)

The doctors office was interesting, but not interesting enough to write much about. The doctor is kind of a family friend of the Rajarams so it was all probably a lot easier than it could've been.

But alas, I was still pretty bad off and spending most the days either in bed or near it, and going into coughing fits - I swear directing all coughing energy directly into my throbbing forehead and temples - whenever I went out. Or, you know, talked much. Or smelled incense or bug spray. Or just thought to myself "hmm, I haven't coughed in a while now!"

But yeah, I'm much better now, though I did cancel my 2-day trip to Delhi, which, at the rate I was going, was going to be No Fun At All.
Christoph and Katja went anyway, and I think Christoph spent most of his time there so far in bed in the hotel. But they needed to be there to get their flight back to Germany in a few more days, and my ticket was both refundable and unnecessary so my decision was easy.

But yeah, I'm feeling much better now. I'm still coughing, but not incapacitatingly so - and i have no other symptoms that could mean it's something more serious, which was my main concern at the doctors. (Really though, thoughts kept running through my head of all the diseases they have here that I normally never think about... Cholera, for example, is something I felt the need to convince myself I don't have by going to the doctor and having them say that I'm being silly for worrying and that it's just a normal infection.)

Right. So maybe that bears repeating for certain readers: I'm ok. Don't worry.