Today is our last day in India. We leave tonight at around 9PM. Our plane will leave at 1:30 Am.
Yesterday we completed everything at the embassy after about 5 trips there. Finally everything is complete. We are ready to go.
Uma has terrible diarrhea today. IT is the type that literally covers her entirely in a matter of seconds and also requires a bath to clean it all up. It started yesterday, stopped in the evening and then came back this morning after she ate. The pediatrician had given me some medicine for her. I am praying it works - otherwise this travel will bring a new definition to the word hell!
Uma also has a fairly bad cold, which is also not an ideal situation for travel, and especially since this will be her first time on a plane, and she is a person who does not like to be confined anyway. The pediatrician gave me a decongestant that will also make her sleep. I gave her a dose last night and noticed that she seemed to wake up earlier than usual (which thwarted my packing plan). However, after her morning dose today, she threw one of those "I am really tired and really pissed off about it because there is still fun to be had" tantrums, and then when to sleep. She is still asleep now, so I thought I would quickly update the blog and get to my packing as since she is not feeling well, she is particularly clingy today and packing will otherwise prove difficult.
We spent most of our trip back and forth from the embassy and at the doctors, and so much to my chagrin, I hardly even saw New Delhi. After Uma wakes, if my packing is under control, we will go on a outing, our first and last for this trip.
Still, I am really eager to get home and start our routine there. There really is no place like home!
Jan 8, 2008
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Haave a great trip! So glad you finally have her!
She reminds me of Bhavishya. Bhavishya did not leave my arms the first 3 weeks we were together. She had to sit on the loo with her on my knees!!!
Anyhow, you mentioned her diarhea...Bhavishya also had terrible diarhea. She drank contaminated water the day she left the orphanange and contracted hepatitis A and she has a lactose intolerence. Of course the more milk we fed her the worse it got. It took us a while to realise this. If this condition should persist, may I recommend trying to give Uma soya milk?
Regards from Luxembourg,
Sas
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