Whooping Cough?
If you’ve been wondering where I’ve been these last few weeks, I’ll tell you. I have whooping cough. Now who knew that in 2007 (after having gotten vaccinated for it) I could still get it? I’ve been hacking for weeks. It’s the pits really. The symptoms are suppressed with medicine and I plod on with life. I went on the family holiday we had booked and resigned myself to having to be sick.
What really struck me though was my husband’s comment on hearing my ‘exciting’ news.
“Well at least you won’t die from it like my Aunt did”. His comment really hit a nerve. It’s amazing how we take it for granted that we’ll get better when we are sick. I don’t think that many of us put it in perspective how only a generation ago we would have died of the common ailments that are easily treated today.
4 Mar
