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?