When I got up today, I didn't feel quite right. I was slightly weak and queasy. For breakfast, I had oat porridge and tea. Shortly after, I discovered that I had diarrhea. I told Lal that we were staying another day here, because something had made me sick, and I did not feel well enough to go on. I suspected the dal bhatt I had last night, although the lodge appeared to be very clean and Lal was in the kitchen watching them cook. I went back to bed. I was glad I had a nice private room today.
For lunch, Lal brought chicken soup and dry toast to me in bed, as I requested. Lunch didn't stay down long, so I decided to avoid food for the rest of the day, and mixed a bottle of Gatorade in boiled water. I had brought the Gatorade for rehydration in case I had diarrhea and lost a lot of water. For the rest of the day, I stayed in bed. I told Lal not to bring me dinner, and he lit a candle for me when it got dark. He also brought boiled water so I could make more Gatorade.
All day, I dreamed that Nepal was a seething mass of ant-like people carrying food and water bottles, and I was floating in them. Later that night, I started feeling better, and dreamed about eating ice cream at Thomas Sweet's Ice Cream Parlor in Princeton. I slept rather well after that.
Scott A. Yost, 1994. All rights reserved.