Mexico Medical Student |

I am so sick it’s not funny. I have been running a 101-deg fever, and coughing lung cookies thanks to the little petri dishes at the kindergarten we had to visit this week as part of our community medicine rotation. What sucks is that I am sick yet again, losing a weekend yet again, impacting my studies yet again, and raising my stress levels as always — something that I’m sure all these sicknesses are thriving on with my lowered immunity.

It’s like I take one step forward and two steps back. Last weekend when I had my GI infection really bad, I was wondering about PMC between the wound in my leg and my running to the bathroom every 15 minutes how I was going to complete the week, get the credit, and not postpone my move by another week having to make it up. Of course, Monday was also the anatomy final, so I was compromised there too. But by Tuesday/Wednesday, I thought, “Wow, I think I’ll finish this and everything will be better.” Then *bam* in bed 18hrs/day with cold/flu. Now I worry about schedules and timing, but this time it’s biochem.

I have never EVER been this sick in my life, and I am not any less healthy or fit or whatever now than I have been in the recent past. I think it’s the stress combined with the new environment, and the catch-22 is that the more stress I have with life/school, the more susceptible I am to get sick, which make it much easier to get sick, etc. etc.

I just want this semester to end already.