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Family Visit, Week One

My parents and brother finally made a visit back to Taiwan to come see me. They haven’t been back in nine years, and to them, Taipei has changed so much. We’ve been eating a lot this past week with me taking them out for the good places I know and with our scores of relatives [ READ MORE ]

Illnesses Galore

I get sick about every two weeks here in Taiwan. I’ve probably been to a doctor more times in the past year than in my entire life in the States. My biggest moments were probably the ten-day hospital stay due to a bacteria infection and getting H1N1 aka swine flu, which I caught from my [ READ MORE ]

Flu Schmoo

  • October 15th, 2009
  • Posted in medical

I’m sick with flu-like symptoms. Is it the piggy flu? I don’t know. What I do know is that it makes me want to stay in bed all day, which is exactly what I have been doing. I’ve had many students miss class with H1N1, but we’ve been taking precautions about it. Anytime a kid [ READ MORE ]

Outside World

I’m home! I was discharged yesterday around noon. I paid my bill (which was $7000NT/$210USD for a 10-day hospital stay is not too shabby), got my meds, and bounced. I hauled all of my stuff into a cab, went home, took a nice long hot shower, shaved, threw some non-sweats clothes on, and went to [ READ MORE ]

Day 8

The doctor came by and said that the antibiotics have greatly reduced the amount of bacteria in me, but it’s not entirely gone so that means that I still have to be on antibiotics for few more days. I thought I was going to be able to get out today. He said that we’ll do [ READ MORE ]