Tuesday, October 7, 2008
Mind the Mump (s)
I am no hypochondriac nor am I particularly squeamish around people who have red noses, drip with snot and germs or have puffy eyes. I have grown up with a lot of siblings and therefore seen my fair share of illnesses on the battlefront between virus and immune cell. When I heard mumps were making their way through the Rhodent population I didn’t feel alarmed. As well as being unfazed about sicknesses, they are unfazed by me and as a result I never seem to get too ill. It is apparent that I am a lucky freak of nature. However, my friends went absolutely batty. One went for a Vitamin B shot right in the derriere. Another braced herself for the virus by freaking out then eating a lot of junk food repeatedly saying: “Oh well, I better eat now because I’m going to get mumps soon.” It looked to me that my friends seemed quite sick already but mentally. Unfortunately a girl in our blog group did get mumps. She is still at home in Cape Town and I have heard that mumps is something no one wants to wish on their worst enemy. While I feel sorry for her, it was unfortunate that she is in my res which drove my friends round the bend with their mumps anxiety. Luckily it has seemed to die down and now we will have to wait for the next epidemic to battle.
Labels: batty, hypochondriac, mumps, virus