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245. It's worse than I imagined, but not influenza

This morning, that sick lady was talking, in between coughs, to another gal outside my office about her illness. She hasn't just come down with something, she's been in and out of the doctor's office since November she says, something that others around her confirmed to me yesterday. Can you imagine!? Sick for a month with a runny nose, sneezing, & coughing! Looks and sounds like a cold. But whatever it is, her immune system is helpless to dig itself out of the problem.

She puts it down to something along the lines of something similar to what one of her friends' husbands has. She thinks it's probably bad allergies and she's been taking the doctor's antibiotics for her illness. But if I'm not mistaken, antibiotics have no effect against colds & viruses.

I'd be more pissed today than ever if I hadn't recovered so quickly, but my nose started running heavily by yesterday afternoon and I blame this idiot of ill health. Fortunately getting outside of the office petri dish of germs, flushing my system out with mass quantities of water and vitamins, and getting an early night's rest was the miracle cure. Completely recovered today.

Oh freaking hell! She's walking and coughing down the corridor, spreading her germs as she goes.