Getting more sick in Benares
News are bad. Very bad. I thought that I had recovered from the salmonella kind of thing but apparently not.
I've been bed ridden for the past 4 days, losing liters and liters of waters going at least 20 times a night to the toilet (and it doesn't include the number of times I go there in the daytime).
I've lost appetite and barely can eat, am feeling week, and am stucked now in this dump. Unable to stand a 13 hours train ride or a 7 hours flight.
I'm in some deep **** (pun intended).
Came to my ears that I got dysentria which is very bad. The last thing I wanted to happen is to catch this **** and to go and see a doctor here. Just look at how filthy this city is and you will understand.
But I had no choice. I was losing too much water and energy, keeping this way would have been disastrous.
The manager of the hotel got me to the nearest hospital. I will not tell you how much of a dump this place was. I'm grateful he accompanied me tho because I wouldn't have been able to find the place and know where to go once inside.
Many sick indians, I had the feeling to be in "The City of Joy" (La Cité de la Joie). No need to make a picture, you got it.
After waiting quite some time, the hotel manager called me.
- come, this is your doctor ?
- what ? THIS man ? Are you serious ? He looks even more sick than me !
- haha, right, but yeah this is the doc.
The man was livid as a ghost with marks on his face which looked like a skull. I could swear that this man was about to die anytime soon.
Long story short I went out from the hospital with a bag full of medics : antibiotics, immodium, mineral salt to put in bottles of water (since I lost so many) and some other stuff I don't remember the name.
I came back to my hotel room and now I'm still laying down in my bed, unable to do anything. I just hope that tonight I will not go to the toilet every 15 minutes.
I want to leave this ****hole, I can't stand this city no more and all this has made some changes in plans. At first I wanted to travel all around Rajasthan but I've lost so much strenght and energy being sick for 8 days now that all I want is to relax. So I'm gonna stay here for maybe another couple of days and then take a flight to GOA. **** the Rajastan, **** the Taj !
I plan to recover there in Goa for quite some times and then I will go down to Kerala and Tamil Nadu.
This sickness is like a baptism. Now that I got this **** I AM a world traveler haha. Seriously it sucks big time. Haven't eat for a while, lost lot of water and weightn, I'm drained and exhausted. Not easy when you're all by yourself, far from home.