Alyeris

Winter here in the Southern hemisphere and boy are there a lot of colds going around. I quit medicine after completing my intern year, but they are so short of staff right now that they asked me to come in to fill the gaps at the local hospital. Not being involved with any projects at work I agreed, and...

... I'm down with the cold for the third time this winter. Zeepers.

I'm not even the worst off actually. One of my colleagues is on his fifth round of sick leave, and the average sick leave rate of staff at the hospital is about 15-25 per cent right now. If you throw in the 30 per cent increase over the last year in people coming in to the ER and after-hours clinics, you should understand why even someone like me got begged to come in and help.

I'm told that the latest strain of the flu that I caught is a variant of the swine flu that was making headlines a few years back. Very nice isn't it? Stomach cramps from coughing are not to be laughed at either. Seeing as flu season still has three weeks left to run, I have the opportunity to add to my list of maladies too. I wonder what strain I'm going to catch next.

:EDIT: Playing Slender in bed while I get over this. Boy, this game is freaky.