Finally well and saved by bureaucracy

It's been a wild evening here, after 6 days of excrutiating boredom at the hospital. No time tonight to go into much detail (and I promise not to talk much about the hospital anyway - I'm trying desperately to forget the whole experience), but I need to send a short note out before too many folks see the news.

They finally let me out today, after a lengthy battle with this vile bug. The doctor gave the green light for me to go home at 2pm, and it took a full 4 hours for the paperwork to make it far enough for me to start visiting the 4 different offices requires to process my release. For once, I'm grateful - they may have saved my life:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4388292.stm

If you hadn't heard, there were at least 4 bomb attacks in Delhi tonight, one of which was right in the middle of the neighborhood I'm staying in, at a pedestrian choke point I'd have been stuck at if I was released on schedule. Fortunately, I was late.

Anyway, they're chasing me out early (this area's a ghost town tonight - no surprise), but I'm safe and sound, and have a bed. More tomorrow.

Karl