Health

I’ve been stuck with a sore throat for the past couple of days. I’m hoping that my body will take care of it as always but the coughing isn’t helping. I cough so much that I’m getting a workout with my abs. It’s nice that I’ll get solid abs after this but it’s not worth the pain.

Ever since I got back from Canada, I haven’t been feeling too well. I’m not sure if my body is readjusting to the weather here or what but I’m my health doesn’t seem to be improving much. I’m not sure if I’m getting sick because it’s the winter time but it seems like a lot of people are getting sick.

Last week, a couple of people in my department didn’t show up for work. Another worker was in but he was coughing up a storm. The next day, he was off sick and he hasn’t returned yet. On Saturday, my coworker was supposed to go into work but when I called him, he sounded terrible. He is also still away. When I got into work today, I started out being fine but as the day progressed, my cough started to get rougher and my throat started to get sorer.

I cough to the point where it feels like the air that’s rushing out is scratching my throat. That in turn makes me cough some more and it gets worse. Sometimes I cough so far that the cough just stops abruptly. And then I want to puke.

My brother called me up to go out and have dinner but I had to decline because I was in no condition to eat. He recommended that I try a medicine that his boss gave him. He warned me that it’s going to taste really bad. If you’ve ever had Buckley’s, it’s supposed to be worse than that.

I’ve never tried Buckley’s so I had nothing to compare it to. I’ve just heard that the medicine tastes bad but it works. I thought nothing of it and gave it a tried.

As soon as I inhaled the scent of the medicine, I didn’t want to put the spoon in my mouth. So I grabbed my cup of ice tea to chase down the medicine. It helped a bit but as soon as I swallowed the ice tea, the taste of the medicine came back. It was awful. I put the spoon down and went back to playing on the computer. I check to see what was in this medicine when I noticed that he recommended that I take two tablespoon twice a day. So, I had to take another shot.

The second time was worse than the first. The after taste lingered around for a lot longer. This stuff was terrible! There’s no way that I could take this thing twice a day. I have enough trouble as it is with one dose.

I checked to see if I could find the ingredients. There was a list of three items:

• 20mL Goldenseal
• 75mL Echinacea
• 25mL Marshmallow

This thing must be lying because I couldn’t taste a hint of marshmallow in it at all. If the marshmallow was more strong maybe it wouldn’t taste so bad. But you know what, as I’m typing this, I’ve come to realized that I haven’t cough since the start. I don’t want to jinx it but I think this thing is working. But thing again, it could have been the iced tea that did the trick.

I hate having to go to the doctor’s office because the line up is way too long. If I’m sick, there’s a high chance that I’ll be even sicker by the time I leave the place. I don’t like to wait two hours to see the doctor for five minutes and I don’t like to get sicker than I already am so I don’t go to the doctor’s office. Even if it’s a life or death situation, I’m planning on staying away from the doctor’s office.

I have the smallest medical history in my family. Maybe I have the small medical history known to man. I’ve seen my medical file and it’s half a full scrap paper. That’s right, my doctor keeps our files on full scrap paper. He probably guys it from Walmart during the Back to School season and saves a lot of money.

While the rest of my family has a history that’s probably two or more pages long, my history is nothing compared to them. Yet for some reason, when I cough once, they immediately assume I’m sick as hell. It’s just a cough, how does that set off an alarm? Every winter, I start coughing and I assume that most people would as well around this time of year. The fact that I’m coughing doesn’t mean I have to go see the doctor.

I haven’t been to the doctors in years, maybe decades. The last time I remember going to the doctors was back in middle school. The reason why I went was because I was coughing. Visiting the doctor was a waste of time. I could have healed myself by staying in bed. Instead, I was forced to go see the doctor. He has no idea what I had other than a cough. I think he mad up some condition and told me I had chronic bronchitis or something. He probably makes up this stuff as he goes along.

Every time I go to the doctors, it’s for the same illness. Yet, for some reason he’ll prescribe me five different medicine. I would understand giving me five different if the previous medicine didn’t work but I don’t think he looked over my history. Not like he can read his own hand writing anyway. I bet that every time I go see the doctor, he probably thinks I’ve got a different version of the virus. It’s as if my body somehow mutates the virus so I’ll cough at a high pitch than the previous. Depending on the pitch of the cough he’ll prescribe me the right medicine.

I was once prescribed some yellow liquid that tasted like shit. Why bother making it yellow if you’re not going to cover up the taste with banana flavour or something. For all I know, it could have been that Buckley’s medicine but the unbranded version.

I was instructed to take the medicine twice a day until it was gone. At the time, I didn’t think the medicine was going to help so I took it once and then left the rest on my desk. The next day, I felt better. You would probably think that by taking the medicine once, I was cured. No. This medicine wasn’t that good. Something that tastes like shit probably doesn’t do shit. It’s all in the mind.

The next time I got sick with a cough, I didn’t even bother going to the doctors. I stayed home and played on the computer. My abdominals got a work out from all the coughing but I got better as the days went by. I didn’t even need the medicine because my body was building antibiotics on its own. I’ve got a lot of immunity towards virus because I haven’t been sick since.

Influenza is supposed to be hard on people around the winter time. In order to be prepared for it, people line up to get their yearly flu shot. I don’t know if people know about this but they’re getting the flu when they get their flu shot. The vaccine is the flu. You’re getting injected with the influenza virus so your body can start building antibodies to fight it. The viruses are dead though so they don’t harm you.

I’ve never gotten the flu shot in my life and I’ve never gotten the flu. You can say I’m lucky but I don’t think luck has anything to do with me catching a virus. My body has built up enough antibodies over the years that I’m probably immune to AIDS.

If I do manage to get sick, it’s nothing serious. Usually, it’s just a low fever, sore throat, running nose and lots of coughing. After a couple of days in bed, I feel much better and I didn’t need to go to the doctor and get medicine or anything. Why bother going to the doctors and waiting to get medicine when my body does a good job at healing itself. I do get sick during the odd times but that usually happens if I don’t eat within 24hrs. The room would start to spin around and I would get nauseous. When that happens, I just limit my movement by staying in bed with my eyes closed. Within 12hrs, I’m up on my feet and back to normal.