Subject: Post: <p>Seems like some kind of Inca curse has been casted on me. Maybe it was me and Timo joking about peeing at the Inca necropolis or taking a photograph of wrong witch.. For three days we have been trying to get to the Inca ruins nearby, first the agricultural strike and their roadblocks ruined our plans for two days and now our third attempt did not go so well either.</p><p>We were supposed to depart at five in the morning, drive to check out Ollantayntambo and Pisac ruins and Lares natural hot springs, me driving the car. I had been freezing all the night, but imagined it was just the coldness our room as everybody else was complaining the same. At three in the morning I woke up feeling bad and measured to have 38.2C of fever. At five the fever was at 39C, and it was totally clear I was not going to drive anywhere but go to doctor as soon as possible. I had been suffering some stomach problems since Bolivia, and they had gotten worse in the last two days.</p><p>The hotel owner had some relations to a local hospital Clinica Peruana Suiza, so he called them and their doctor came with an ambulance to pick me up. I spent the day in the hospital getting IV antibiotics and liquid for dehydration, the diagnose being bacterial infection of unknown origin and altitude sickness. Now in the afternoon the fever is gone and I was discharged from the hospital back to our hotel with a week-long prescription of antibiotics.</p><p>Thanks to the clinic for excellent service. The doctors seemed to be professional and attending and spoke English just fine. With the nurses I had some funny communication attempts as they only spoke Spanish, but they were also nice and we managed to understand each other with my few words of Spanish and their same in English. Hospital food in here is not much better than in Finland, though.. :)</p><p>While I was laying at the hospital the others went to ask the car rental company if anyone could drive the car, and after getting permission for Timo to drive picked up the car and visited some Inca sites. Around midday they also came to visit me again in the hospital. :)</p> Latitude: Longitude: Security Code:
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