Returning to normal and looking toward discharge
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, India
room 2223 Apollo Hospital
Returning to normal and looking toward discharge
I'm feeling like a normal person now. I will stay in the hospital another two days. They will check to make sure the fever does not return and continue to give me the IV antibiotics. I do not have to undertake a bronchoscopy, since it is clear to my doctors I do not have tuberculosis.
I did not want to be admitted to the hospital. When I got here I looked at the small bed and the sparsely appointed room and wished I could stay in my hotel. Now however I am going to miss the place. The staff has been very nice. The nurses flirt with me in their conservative South Indian way and I will miss that. The air-conditioning in the room is nice and I am brought three meals a day, even though I do not have much choice about the food.
I have been napping a bit today. Even though I don't have fever my body must be recovering. I am sleeping 9-10 hours a night.
But life here is not real, at least no more real than traveling on the road. So I must go. I will probably be discharged Wednesday morning.
This place is as much a prison as a hospital. I have just gotten permission to leave the hospital for an hour and a half in order to use the internet to access my bank account, and to go to a phone shop to add credit to my mobile. I will use the opportunity to upload these blog entries from the past week in the hospital.
Returning to normal and looking toward discharge
