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Sometimes you can get the better of a dream figure...and sometimes that just gives them an excuse to play a new card.
Cory and I had this weekend slated for final preparation for Emerald City Comic Con, so naturally the first thing that happened on Friday evening was that I tore the lining between my lung and ribs...again...on my LEFT side this time. Because I guess my right felt that it wasn't fair that only it got to experience the excruciating pain. My health just has not been very good lately. It's starting to get a little scary. In the past five months, I've spent more days ill than I have well. It starts to feel like I'm never going to get better. I start freaking out about "super germs," wondering if the kids have given me some super-hardy strain of illness that is going to enforce a slow, lingering death. Naturally, these worries don't do a darn bit of good to actually helping me recover, but I can't stop these concerns from running around in my mind.
I did go to the doctor last week and they prescribed antibiotics. Unfortunately, they were too late to prevent the lung lining tear, but they do seem to have helped with the cold.
Now I just have to heal enough to be able to lift my arm past my shoulder. Yeah. Come on, lungs! Just stitch yourselves on up, okay??
As for super germs...consider that germs are bound to evolve to better survive. Take the rhinovirus, which mutates so quickly that there is not cure for it. Luckily, rhinovirus isn't deadly to most people (it's just the common cold). That said; germs have been mutating and evolving alongside humans for as long as the race has existed (and before it did as well, if you take science as a model for Earth's history). Chances are that most ancient humans' immune systems could fight off the super germs of their times (otherwise there would be no modern humans), so our immune systems should be able to fight off (all but the most terribly deadly) super germs of our times. I've never heard of ebolavirus or some disease with that lethal capacity showing up in a school; schools tend to be breeding grounds for newer, non-lethal diseases because of how many people there are--give your immune system some time to build up immunity to its environment, and eventually things will settle down. So in short--try not to worry about "super germs"; we've been battling them for as long as we've existed...it's just a matter of building up some immunity.
Anyhow, get lots of rest and I hope you have a good recovery!