Update 15: catching fever and ridding it in a Madurai Hospital
7:25 PM
Monday 4 December 2006
Madurai, Tamil Nadu, South India
Hello there friend:
Since doing the fantastic backwaters trip in Alleppey I have had a fever. After going to the Chinese fishing nets of Fort Cochin and the tea plantations of Munnar with a couple friends, I arrived in Madurai. Still having not gotten rid of the fever, I checked into a hospital.
The testing and diagnosis has been a see-saw story, best explained in the blog entries. Besides, the nurses have only let me out of the hospital for an hour and a half, and I have already broken my time limit to get my blog entries up.
To save you the suspense and worry of reading the blog, antibiotics have gotten rid of my fever and they will discharge me from the hospital in a couple of days when they are convinced it is gone for good.
But you should read the blog anyway. This has been an unusual twist in my travel, totally unanticipated. Once more it tells me my fate is not completely in my hands; apparently it is in someone else's.
Take care, enjoy the December holiday season.
Mark
Blog entries since my last email update:
- Returning to normal and looking toward discharge
- No TB....
- Checking for TB, temporary escape from the hospital, and Indian hospital payments
- Medical limbo
- Tuberculosis or not?
- The life of a nurse in Tamil Nadu and my travel twist
- I am getting tested for TB
- I'm off to check out the medical digs in Madurai
- I fight mysterious South Indian fever
- Tracing my way through Kerala - Alleppey, Kochi, Munnar




