Sickness strikes again

Just as I finished killing off my bacterial infection with antibiotics that caused me to miss 2 days of work last week, today I start feeling really crap again at school. I even had to go lay down in the nurse's room for 2 hours. Unfortunately they didn't give me any painkillers at school (I was told by my teacher, "We don't take painkillers in Japan", but what I think she really wanted to say was she probably wasn't allowed to give me any) so I had to tough it out. Luckily I was due to visit the doctor today anyways so he could do yet another blood test to make sure we'd killed off the bacterial infection from before, so now I could tell him about my new symptoms (yay). Good news is, my bacterial infection is under control. Bad news is, I now have a viral infection (i.e. the flu). I felt so crap from severe body aches & chills that I could hardly bike myself home. Man what is it with me this year? I'm like a sickness magnet!

On 2nd thought, it really isn't just me though... a favorite topic of ALTs is how we get sick all the time here & no one really knows why...