Lennox ER, Hospital OK Now

The dirt and grime finally caught up with us, and in particular with Lennox. He really got the short end of the stick. He had 40C fever and dysentery, and he was throwing up, and it the fever did not respond to paracetamol, so we decided he should see a doctor. By coincidence, where we were in Chandigarh was opposite a hospital, and they saw him right away. However, he did not get better during the day and so Flo took him again to the hospital and put him on an intravenous drip and kept him in. Now, the day after, we have seen the Dr several times, and he thinks he needs at least 2 days rest . In any case, he is on a drip for hydration, electrolytes, and twice a day anti-biotics Lennox is definitely getting slowly better, and the fever and vomiting have stopped. The dysentery is more like good old diarrhoea now.
There is a super parallel story here. More than anything in India, we have been amazed at the generosity of the welcome and support we have received, and I used correctly hyperbole to describe that in Noida and in Amritsar, but here the hotel manager has taken that to even higher heights. He helped with the initial ER by sending with me a staff member, who rapidly swept through the bureaucracy to the Dr. In the evening and day that followed, his efforts were truly remarkable. He took Flo and Lennox in the evening to the hospital around 2100, and he again navigated the hospital bureaucracy and gently but firmly made sure that Lennox was treated. There is a lot more, but I think saying he stayed till 3am and was back helping us the next morning gives an idea of his incredible support, and that extended beyond the hospital. He extended our stay in the hotel, even though it was on Booking.com full, and he offered us free breakfast and help with laundry, etc. Jaimin is the name of this incredible guy. How can we possibly thank him enough. I will certainly try to make sure the hotel owners get wonderful feedback, and I have learned it would be good to give him a gift from back home, so maybe we can arrange that, I certainly hope so.Weiterlesen