For a guy who has practically every respiratory ailment known to man, you’d think that teaching would be a bad choice. There are bugs everywhere. On any given day, you run the gamut from lice to pink-eye to pneumonia.
For the most part though, I’ve been incredibly healthy while I’ve worked at my school. It’s been a shock to everyone, including me. I’ve been through 3 years without much problem at all. I attribute it to being happy in my job (a definite first) and liking what I do.
However, I did catch a bug this week. It’s been a doozy, the coughing cold thingy that has decimated our school. At any one time, it seems like 12-15 students have had this and many are still battling this even after 3 weeks.
So I’m going to keep today’s post short, since I’m coughing and taking cough medicine with all sorts of good things in it.
Have a wonderful Labor Day, and read a good book over the holidays! (I’m currently reading Fade to Black, one of the Nero Wolfe continuation books.)
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Hi Jeff,
Doesn’t it make all the difference in the world, whether you feel healthy or not? In my case, even a false alarm, health wise, was enough to upend my universe this week. I describe it in my Friday post at Killer Hobbies, http://killerhobbies.blogspot.com/
Best, Kathryn
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Pink eye! Boy does that bring back the old childhood! I recall having it several hundred times as a kid.
I had ring-worm once, too. And warts on the bottom of my feet. And I was forever chapping my lips.
The worst ailment I ever had was freezing my ears waiting for the bus. As a seventh grader, I was simply too cool to wear earmuffs. My ears doubled in size, turned white and stuck out straight for several days. And my friends laughed and laughed.
I also peed my pants a lot in the first grade.
Good gravy, Jeff, just because you’re under the weather I have to relive my embarrassing childhood like this?
by C.R.
on August 31st, 2007 at 8:46 am
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Feel better, Jeff! It might not be a cure, but hot tea with honey and lemon juice will make you feel better.
by Casey
on August 31st, 2007 at 9:36 am
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I hope hearing about all of C.R.’s ailments didn’t make you sicker…
by Judy
on August 31st, 2007 at 4:29 pm
