Kevinitis. That's what I have.

In Canada, I was as healthy as I could be. But since the beginning of this year, I've been sick a large percentage of the time here. I find Taiwanese doctors sketchy, but mainly because I feel like the medication I'm taking isn't getting me back to 100% each time I take them. Since February, I've been diagnosed with having a flu (Feb), cold (April), mild bronchitis (the second opinion was that it was just the latter lingering stages of the cold), asthma attack, and now laryngitis. Why does everything sound worse when you add -itis to the end of it? Really, just an inflammation of some body part, but add the -itis and it feels like near-death.

I'm not sure what the cause is, why I'm running on this illness treadmill. Is it the pollution, the dense population, the fact that viruses run rampant in moist and heated climates, or my diet and nutrition? Yes. I'm sure all of it. I feel like I'm constantly on medication here. Poppin' prescription pills isn't something I like nor that I'm used to. And they seem to prescribe this stuff like candy (well, no one REALLY prescribes candy). So I'm on 4 pills and a cough syrup now.

Took a blood test today (upon my request) -- where the blood extractor bludgeoned the vein in my left arm before he decided he couldn't get any blood out and moved to my right arm. After I saw him pull the needle out, re-angle, and re-insert for the 3rd time, I couldn't watch the 4th, 5th, and 6th times. A few days and I'll get the test report. And I also have a full health check-up via work sometime this month as well.

Be well, be healthy.