I've got a fever of a hundred and three

I ate something bad and have been bed ridden for the past two days. I think it may have been the samosas I bought from a street vendor listed in Lonely Planet. I don't quite trust the doctors diagnosis because he didn't bother to do the routine things like check my blood pressure and listen to my breathing. It less than two minutes he told me it was travellers diarrhoea and prescribed me some drugs that are making me loopy, but no longer feverish. My fever was almost 104 degrees. After his diagnosis I had to give him some baksheesh ( bribe or offering). At that point I didn't care, I needed to stop feeling horrible. In the haze of my fever I nearly wrote my last will and testament. Because of my illness I will probably skip out on the camel safari I had planned.

The past two days have been pretty hellish as Jaisalmer is fucking hot. Fortunately it's dry desert heat, but I have been dehydrated as well. I was extremely weak and stopped sweating until just a few hours ago when I took an electrolyte drink to help me retain water. I'm supposed to stay here for a few more days to make sure it's nothing too serious. My self diagnosis told me it was either typhoid, heat stroke, or again possibly malaria. I ruled out typhoid because I remembered the vaccination I took in pill form. Malaraia as I stated previously has all kinds of symptoms. Heat stroke seemed likely because I was walking for five hours during the hottest part of the day a couple days ago and according to LPs health section I had a lot of the symptoms, one being aggressiveness. I nearly picked a fight with a local because he snapped his fingers at me to move my bag, sat too close to me, and started to sing (every male here is a contestant for Indian Idol).

So my plans are still to go up to Ladakh to see the Himalayas before the roads close due to snow. The later I go the less touristy it will be. Afterwards I still plan on going to Nepal to meet up with a friend of two Canadian girls I met in Goa. I will probably only have a short time in Thailand before I meet up with the folks in Vietnam, but that's fine since I have a lot of time in southeast asia. I do have to be in Thailand on 8 October to celebrate the birthday of a woman I met in Mamallapuram.

Ouch! Stomach cramps.