Distressed--- I was sick this weekend with my yearly bronchitus. I called the Doctor got amoxycillan and figured that is that. I know the drill. I will take my pills and wait it out. Not the case. My family decided it was their personal responsability to take care of me. They decided that the reason that I was sick was because I slept with the window open and I caught a cold. It is at least 90 degrees out, and I live in an adobe house. (Adobe traps heat making it alot hotter,) However i´ll be flexible and say that maybe their right about that. There resolution, though, does not fit the cause. They decidided that I am never allowed to have the window open, not even in the day. They had my cousin Joanna sleep with me to make sure that I did not throw off my blankets in the middle of the night, and I was only allowed to drink hot water. All this in 90 degree heat. I have never sweated so much in my life. My host mom entered my room every night to rub vicks vapor rub on my chest and back. She was worried. I was coughing all night every night. understandable. However the last night she decided to use some of the remedys her mother tought her . First she put vicks vapor rub in boiling water to make the air smell like it. good idea, right. The list goes on. Then she decided to rub the Vicks vapor rub all over the newspaper and then light a candle. She slowly carressed the flame over the newspaper, heating the vicks, and also spilling wax onto the newspaper. Then she stuck the scalding newspater to my back and chest and told me not to remove it until the morning. To say the least I am better, but I feel like my personal space has been seriously challenged.
Times like this I wonder what I am doing. On a positive note, I am better.

ERin