yesterday we saw an elephant on the road

phew. today was exhausting, and I barely left the hospital.

Ryan had her second procedure today, but thankfully it was a somewhat minor one and we got to stay here at the Green Park clinic rather than going to the Guatam Nagar hospital. She also only had to lie down for one hour after it, rather than six like last week. This made my life much easier, as I was fortunate enough to spend the day as the "official caregiver" of both of my good buddies.

Erin called early this morning to tell me that she was feeling absolutely awful - chills, a fever, dizziness upon standing - the works. She's been complaining of a pretty bad headache for the last few days as well, and all of these symptoms in combination with the fact that she's stopped taking her anti-malaria pill because of the side effects - we were worried.

I managed to find her apartment in Defence Colony, get the taxi driver to wait out front and get her upstairs to bring her here to the hospital. In the clinic, the doctors took some blood and Dr. Shroff insisted that she have her own room, right across the hall from Ryan and I's.

Erin got an IV, antibiotics, the whole shebang, and a few hours ago we found out the malaria test was negative. So apparently she has some crazy viral infection. But don't worry, she's feeling much better now - the medicine has reduced her fever, her head and body ache is gone, and she feels somewhat lucid now. They are even discharging her this evening, but she has to come back for antibiotic injections every morning and night for the next three days.

Edit: I forgot to finish this post last night, so I'm going to do it now. Erin ended up spending the night last night because Dr. Honor said he would take care of her, which made her feel better. She woke up feeling kind of icky, but is about to get her injection and take her medication and then that should make her feel better.

craziness!