A fever from Hell

Ok, I'm sure everyone was supprised that I didn't blog yesterday. Especially since I was doing sooo well on blogging everyday and not missing a day! But yesterday was a diaster!
Frist off... Everything did go well with picking Briana up from airport. Although Caitlin and I were completely exhausted because we woke up at 5 that morning for mass and didn't get back to the airport till pass midnight. Well, Briana came at perfect timing because it was pouring rain when she arrived. Lightening storms that lit up the sky and so the humidity wasn't so hard to bare for her first time in India. Although she said the first thing she noticed was the humidity... while here caitlin and I were sitting SOOO happy about how cool it was. haha. It's funny, because you really do become adjusted to the climate here. It's not as bad as it sounds. The temperture is usually in the upper 90's but it doesn't feel hot, it just feels extremely STICKY. For an example, you step out of the shower all nice and clean, and towel yourself down.... but you realize that you're still a little damped. Sooner later you realize it's not because you didn't dry yourself off well from your shower but rather because it's just really humid here and it's one of two things... your sweat or the condensation of the humidity.
Well when we got back to the hotel room, we ran into a few more encounters of cockroaches. Caitlin and I are getting more and more use to it now, remember back to our first encounter and how we had the funniest episode on how to kill it (you'll have to ask me to see the video of our first time trying to kill the cockroach, it's halrious) but now the extermination is a lot swift and quick. Anyways, when we got back to the hotel mine and caitlin's stomach was very unhappy! We woke up numberous times that night running to the bathroom. It's kind of ironic too because I remember telling caitlin during the day.... that she reached her week and half mark, which means that she's bound to have diaherra soon or get sick and surely enough. Well the next morning after a horrible upset stomach Caitlin woke up with a fever of 102.5 or something like so. When she first told me her temperature I thought she told me 105.2 and so Iwas freaking out all morning. I went to get her ice a resturant down the street and every hour I went to a different resturant asking for ice so her fever would go down. Honestly I was terrified! 105.2 is horrible! That's almost brain damaging! Typhoid is around 104.. something, and brain damage is 107. So when I thought she told me 105, I was thinking... give it an hour or so of ice and if it doesn't go down, we're rushing her to the hospital. Although Caitlin was walking around fine and making her phone calls fine, I just couldn't fathom 105 ' . I kept telling her, the fever will pass within a day or two, and you'll probably have bad diaherra for ... a week. I asked and checked to see if she got any bug bites but it was clear free. It's always right when there's a weather change that everyone gets sick. Because of how polutted the air is when it rains the first day or so it's just raining down all the crap onto you and you really have to keep your hair covered to not get sick and although we only walked from the taxi to the airport in the rain, that did the job to give us the fever. I also think the veg wrap we got for dinner before we picked up Briana gave us stomach problems because hours after eating it both of our stomach weren't feeling well. Anyways, I'm glad I was alright in the morning to be able to run around and get caitlin ice and bring her soup for lunch because right after lunch my fever kicked in. It hit 104.3' and I was miserable! I stomach was horrible and I had one of the worst fever i ever had in my life. Although it was as high as it was, i didn't think it was something to worry about yet unless if it didn't pass in a day or so. So I waited it off. I didn't have anything for dinner and laid in bed for the rest of the day. I felt so bad, because i wanted to be able to take care of caitlin because she was also sick and then I also wanted to show Briana around town because it was her first real day in Kolkata but I was a diaster! My head was extremely hot and although it was pretty cool outside for Kolkata (88') I was shivering cold and wanted to blanket up. I knew I shouldn't cover myself in blankets so I battled the shivers for hours and reminded caitlin that she shouldn't put covers over her otherwise her fever wouldn't lower. We took some IB profen and had a wet rag on our head here and there. When night came Caitlin's fever had pass and only her stomach was bothering her. As for me... it was still horrible. I don't know if anyone have seen me sick before, i know my parents and Sara have been there when I had a high fever but when I get sick.... I moan. hahah. Don't ask me why but I just do. I don't even do it conciously but it freaks the crap out of everyone that's around me and I did it all night last night. Caitlin kept getting up and checking on me and asking me if I want to go to the hospital. It's rather funny because I know it's just something I do and I can't really control it. I do it while I'm sleeping when I'm sick. "AHHHHHh OHHH AAWWWW" All night long. Caitlin said numberous times while I was moaning I threw in the words "THIS SUCKS... OAHHHA" hahaha which makes me laugh. I got up a couple times that night because of my stomach and I actually vomitted once last night but as bad as that sounds... it was the best thing that happend for me. Right after I did, I felt a thousand times better! Everything just cleared up, my fever went down and my stomach didn't feel as bad. It still feels like crap but it's so much better than what it was before. I had some toast this morning, bananan pancake for lunch and honey,bananan,cinnamon toast for dinner. It's getting better. I also picked up some meds for Caitlin and I at the pharmacy today for our stomach. I was determined to get better before 3 today because I wanted to walk Briana to the Mother House for her Orientation and also there was choir practice today at 4:30 and I couldn't let down the sisters and not show up. I'm the only one who teaches the songs to the volunteers and also am the only one who plays the guitar, or know the songs well enough to play the songs. So I was trying to get better before 3pm and a rosary or two did the trick. It's always such a great feeling being at the Mother House. It's just wide open and not all clustered and it's so clean! It's great! I always forget what the first time feeling is like but Briana reminded me again just as Caitlin did... it's a surreal feeling being here in Kolkata, India and then when you step into the Mother House its just this peaceful calming feeling. It's so comforting and you just feel so much love! It's such an amazing feeling! I got to say a rosary in front of Mother's Tomb and spend some time in prayers while Briana was at Orientation. Briana got assigned SHISHU BAHAVAN!!! Which I'm so excited for her and she's even more excited! Choir practice went well today I had to lead the first half of practice on my own because the sisters were still doing some orientational stuff. We went through more mass parts, ran through Blessed be your name again because there were new volunteers who showed up for practice, and than ran through As a deer and a song that was written by one of the sisters here at the Mother house that was dedicated to Mother Teresa, which will be our exit (send forth) song for mass next thursday. I'm really excited because there was a really big turn out for choir practice about 40+ volunteers and the songs are coming along VERY WELL! It's really rewarding to see the fruits of your work... although nothing is by my own will but by the grace of God that things can run as fluidly as they do. Anyways, today is a better day... I going to head back to the hotel and pray that i get a good night sleep because the goal is to be able to wake up at 5am for morning mass and get to work at Daya Dan. Well keep us in your prayers and especially for our health! Take care and God bless