Bronchitis - again!
I am just now getting over another bout of bronchitis. Second time in a year - what’s up with that? Why are my lungs so fragile?
I’m not a smoker (well, besides the occasional cigar), I try to eat healthy, and I take my vitamins. Once upon a time I used to exercise fairly regularly, but that’s another entry altogether.
I suppose I just have a weak pulmonary system. Well, a weak immune system in general. Every spring and every fall, my seasonal allergies make me contemplate jumping off the nearest bridge. I’ve had allergies for as long as I can remember, even before I knew that’s what it was. I remember always having to go the doctor as a child - always being sick. It wasn’t until I was an adult that I realized that I wasn’t sick and that what the family doctor was prescribing was simply a prescription-strength antihistamine.
My mother told me a story once about my name. I was two and on my deathbed. We were in a refugee camp on the Thai-Cambodia border. People told her there was something wrong with my lungs. I assume now that it was pneumonia since it was quite common back then. My parents took me to the village’s doctor, a shaman, who said my spirit was conflicted because I had been given the wrong name at birth. He renamed me and it’s what my parents call me to this day (not Vuthy). My mother said I quickly recovered after I was renamed.
However, as an adult I’m still having issues with lung and sinus problems. Maybe I should start using my shaman-given name instead of Vuthy?! The universe is so mysterious in her own ways…
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