Bad news first

So, lets just start with the bad news. I caught a cold. I was almost over the cold, when I got stuck in the back of a truck one night coming back from a soccer game. One day later = Pneumonia.

Basically, Monday night I had one of the worst nights ever of extreme fever, body pains, especially chest pains, nausea, vomiting, a lot of coughing. It started at 8pm and I finally got a tylenol down after hours of wet towels on my forehead and later the second tylenol which broke my fever a bit by like 5am. When I felt the queasiness and fever start to set back in around 10am I started the 3 bus 3 hr at least trip to the capital. For a while on the trip I was kind of laughing and texting some friends that I might have to projectile vomit on the old man beside me. I didn't in the end :)

I got to San Sal, got a taxi to the doctor's office they told me to go to, then he examined me and sent me to get chest xrays and draw blood. Then I came back and waited in his office with a 103 fever (which didn't feel near as bad as the night before) until he got the xrays. The first words out of his mouth when he saw it were "Well, your F.......d, my friend, I'm admitting you to the hospital." And there I was til today when they let me out to my great disappointment. I had free wifi, cable, and food there. I feel much better now, I just have the cough to kick and 4 more days of medicines.

I have to say, once you get into San Sal, the PC medical is pretty stellar.

In other news, GO USA. What a barn-burner that last classifying game was! Now we have the first elimination round game tomorrow at 230pm ET against Ghana. Hope we play well, there will be no more tying from here on out. Also, after that games over, check out CLEMSON vs. CAROLINA in the semifinals of the College World Series of Baseball at 7pm ET on ESPN. SC baseball at its best.

Check out video of the reactions of the US game ending gol from around the world.