I'm alive!!!

Hello to all my faithful readers!! I have survived the last 24 hours... barely! Last night was terrible!!!! The fever was the worst part... I laid in bed shivering and finally fell asleep around 8:30. Natasha came home and woke me up to ask how I was feeling. I got up to go to the bathroom... I felt terrible because the rooms are not exactly soundproof and the poor girl could hear everything! Nothing like getting to know your roommate real quick! She's been really great and every time I would wake up in the middle of the night to go (about every hour), she would ask how I was feeling. Natasha had told me about the drama that happened last night... Fleda has everyone on edge and she does not stop talking EVER!!! Some people (and even Ray) have hinted at the fact that they are having difficulty tolerating her I awoke @ 7 and although the fever symptoms were gone, I had developed a heat rash all over my torso. i doped up on benadryl (the rash), advil (which I found BTW) for the headache and fever, inhaler (for the asthma which has been MUCH better today), malarone (anti-malarial) pepto for my stomach and tyelenol for the body aches! For those of you who know me, I hate taking meds!!. At breakfast this morning everyone was asking how I was doing and I tried to eat a piece of toast but only made it about halfway before having to run back downstairs. Ray was great and told me I could stay at the hotel but I really wanted to go with the team. He thinks it was food poisoning but told me we could always go get it checked if I wanted. I remembered how yesterday, my naan (bread) at lunch had some raw dough on it, I tore that part off and set it aside but am wondering if maybe there was something nasty in there. As I was using the restroom every 20 minutes this morning, I was really nervous about the hour busride. Everyone was really supportive and I was able to make it through the busride by just closing my eyes. We have a 10 minute walk to the community center and I was able to make it! YEA! My team took it easy on me and gave me the easy jobs and asked me to carry less. It was really helpful as I was still feeling terrible. Imagine doing heavy labor while having food poisoning. YUCK! Natasha gave me a rehydration packet and that seemed to help. For snack I ate a banana and drank some tea. About a half hour before lunch, I had to go really bad and the site is a 10 minute walk from our bathroom! Sujata was kind enough to walk (more like run!) to take me back. Along the way she was telling me about how Bawana is dangerous and that people here are always angry and often fight. She said that they sometimes use knives to stab each other. Interesting! For lunch, I skipped the meal and had a banana and rice. Jerry was very sweet and offered me his power bar (poor guy doesn't like Indian food and keeps a token power bar with him at all times). I laid down on a bed they have there for the rest of lunch. Getting back to work was hard as mmy stomach was still pretty upset. In the afternoon we finished laying the bricks up to ground height, starting digging out the septic tank, moved more bricks from the street to our house and mixed concrete. We are learning more about the engineer and he has started saying "ok, ok, ok" (his only english words!. It is hilarious... at times he looks very annoyed with us but at other times he is teasing us and joking around). The bus ride back was not so bad as I was starting to feel better. Jerry and Dan both had upset stomachs as well but nothing like mine... I don't know what it could have been... I've been eating what everyone else has been eating. I dunno. Long story short, I am feeling better and am on my way to being back-to-normal. YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Tonight we are heading out for Amy's birthday... Ray had this amazing birthday card MADE for her with pictures of India on it and we all signed it. Tonight we are going to a bar called the rodeo and then out to a fancy dinner. Seeing as all I've eaten is a half piece of toast, 2 bananas and a handful of rice... I am beginning to feel hungry! YEA!!!! I hope you all are well... aren't you jealous of my fabulous day?