Monday, November 2, 2009

I take it back

Yup, I take it back. Bacteria most certainly does not rule. After my little spout of the flu in late september I hoped I was finished with my share of diseases for this winter, or at least for 2009. While I had microbiology I learned that getting the flu destroys something in the alveoli of your lungs, making you much more vulnerable to secondary respiratory bacterial infections. If course, by the law of sod, this HAS to apply to me much more so than it applies to everyone else - and I've now been coughing for over two weeks. Finally got to see a doctor today, and he suspects I either have whooping cough cause by pertussis, or an atypical bacterial pneumonia caused by mycoplasma or chlamydia pneumoniae. Will get the answer in a week, in the meantime I will have to make due with a rather large bottle of cough syrup including morphine. Why can't the bacteria just leave me alone so I can go to school and study?

2 comments:

Jimena said...

I loved your blog! jaja you're as crazy about Martin as i am!! and your pics are so funny.
I have microbiology at the university and every time a go to that class a just can't touch anything, it' terrible!
i'll hope you get better of your illness and take care!
are you going to watch DM again? beacuse i saw them a few weeks ago, and i'm still in the clouds...

Greetings from Chile!

Emmy said...

Hi! Very cool to get a comment from someone from Chile! And very nice to see that someone actually reads this stuff ^^

Microbiology can make you horribly paranoid, yeah, you see bacteria everywhere.

I'm going to watch DM 7 more times from December to February, actually. I'm crazy, I know ^^