Cabin Fever - Literally

Well life in the house has most definitely has taken a turn for the terrifying. It began with a section of the excavation - the street outside of the villa - and a trench that they began digging about 4 days ago which went farther then we've ever gone before. Almost immediately ostraka came flying out of the trench (30 in one day, an outrageous amount amount, to be followed the next day by 45). One of the assistants at the trench got a very high fever the following day and was gone. We all wished him well and then pretty much went on with our lives thinking he'd got a food bug. The next day one of the students in the trench went to the hospital with what turned out to be massive kidney stones. This was also one of those, oh, not so good, but okay we'll keep going. Then the head archaeologist at the trench also caught the extremely high fever but this time she had a stomach bug as well. Not so good. Then the topographers who worked on the trench also both caught the stomach bug and extremely high fever. Suddenly everyone is starting to worry about the trench - saying it's cursed, etc.

At dinner tonight a girl from the trench over stood up and was sick. Another guy who works at that trench became ill immediately after dinner. Pretty much a super high fever stomach bug is officially running rampant in our house in the middle of nowhere - literally. The middle of nowhere. I cannot escape.

cabin fever.