Health Update:

After 5 days of stomach pain, (vomiting on the first day) nausea and severe bad news, I finally have a diagnosis. I don't want to go into detail, but these past days have been so astonishing sick that I have to.

Here's how it started:

Saturday night Aunty-ji took Hannah and I to the prestigious Gymkhana Club, a country club here in New Delhi that Aunty-ji and her husband have been members of for a long time, for a Holi celebration.

Right when we got there my stomach started hurting really bad. I tried to wait it off, but I felt horrible. Luckily, the ladies' bathroom had this sort of lounging area with wicker beds in it. The beds looked a lot like the Freudian therapy couches, but these were made of wicker and had various elderly women resting on them. Anyways, I went to one of these empty beds, held my aching belly and sort of went in and out of sleep for the next two hours. When the show ended, Aunty-ji and Hannah were both juiced and came to get me in the bathroom. I rushed into a toilet stall and threw up a bunch, then had to quickly switch sides for the bad news, I continued to throw up in a plastic bag in the car ride back home, and I spent a sleepless night on the bathroom floor (because the floor was nice and cold) alternating between vomiting, INSANE bad news and delirious fevers.

I stayed in bed and slept all of Sunday.

Monday I felt fine, so I wore my new white embroidered kurta and white churidar to celebrate Holi! It was great at for the first 4 hours or so. I think I ingested a lot of the pigment- I kept on trying to spit it out but the stuff gets in EVERYWHERE. In the afternoon, I started feel light-headed and I had to go to bed early because I felt nauseous.

Monday night I hardly slept because the stomach pains returned and I felt really queasy. Thus, being the reason I couldn't go to Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday morning. Instead, Guy-ji took me and another girl from the program to the East and West Medical Center (apparenly, it's a very reputable clinic and the prime minister goes to a doctor there). The doctor asked me questions and instructed that I give them a urine sample and stool sample for proper diagnosis.

Wednesday I felt queasy and have BAD NEWS ALL DAY. Gave samples to the clinic. About two hours ago my results came back: I have a stomach infection. They gave me the name of an antibiotic and a second drug that will counter the side-effects from the antibiotic I will buy from the Chemist (in India, Chemist is the name for pharmacy) tomorrow.