I need to clarify a point. I am not a sickly person. I become ill a bit more frequently than is optimal, in part because of a sometimes recurring intestinal condition, in part because I have no spleen, and in part because i am sometimes forced to work insane hours. When I'm not sick, however, I am 100% fine. Sickly people are never totally well. I am well a far greater percentage of the time than I am sick.
People think I'm unhealthy, even though I haven't been hospitalized since I was a mere baby!
ReplyDeleteDidn't you have a somewhat obscure illness (cellulitis comes to mind, but I don't think that is what it was) of some sort in your early adulthood, not that having a single malady at some point in your life qualifies you as unhealthy?
DeleteI had cellulitis three times officially diagnosed, but I might have had it other times and not been treated. I had trouble with that right after my Peace Corps days... repeated skin infections, sometimes on very inopportune parts of my body. And yes, at one point, hospitalization was recommended, but I correctly refused to be admitted.
DeleteIf a person can be treated without hospitalization, that is usually the best option. There are many hospital-borne pathogens just lying in wait to invade the body of anyone with an already compromised immune system.
DeleteExactly. Besides that, who has the money to hang out in a hospital? I sure didn't back then.
DeleteIf you had the money, it would be better spent at a resont, and the resort would cost less, as well.
DeleteOther than having had some parts removed and others replaced I am doing just peachy. And as long as I am on this side of the dirt I might as well be useful.
ReplyDeleteI'm glad you're peachy.
DeleteSure, you're not sickly. Whatever you say.
ReplyDeleteDidn't you mean "a cousin," as opposed to "a friend." While it's possible to be both, we're not.
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