मैं बीमार हूँ - I am sick

So, I've done a ton of things since the slums, but unfortunately, I have fallen ill (as the Indians would say). Because of this, I haven't had too much time/energy to post anything ... but I will do an overhaul soon. This is not "Delhi Belly" but some sort of bronchitis.

For now, here are some pics of my doctor visit today. To American standards the clinic looked pretty shabby dabby. I was a little nervous to be trusting them to draw my blood or give me a "good" diagnosis. However, this is the clinic that the US ambassador uses, and so far I think they did an excellent job ... lets just see if all the meds make me feel better!

Also, one more side note before the pics. I paid less than USD40 before insurance for the visit, including a diagnostic exam, a blood draw with tests, a throat swab, and a chest X-ray. And this is the "expensive" private clinic. That could open the flood gates to a very long discussion about the health care system here, but lets save that for later.

One section of the blood testing station.

More of the blood drawing station. The left is the back wall of the room. The right is the table where the blood drawing materials are kept.

Eye-spy: wooden desks, wall AC, old fashioned syringe, Styrofoam vial holder

Me getting my blood drawn.

The blood draw station again. The cool thing here is the syringe disposal method (the far right machines of the pic). The white machine sterilizes the used syringe (they are one time use only) incase the needle is some how retrieved from the red machine which clips the needle from the syringe (chopping off some of the plastic with it).

The other sickling (Sarah, who is actually super sick, but she is a good photo model) and Archna Ji (who took us to the clinic) as we are entering the Xray "building" to get our chest Xrays.

The "chemist" shop (like a pharmacy) where we went
after the clinic to pick up the (super cheap) medications we were prescribed.