Illness
Some weaknesses you can compensate for; others, you just accept and try to make the best with.
A weakness that I've had all my life is my poor health. I'm not even speaking of fitness here, as that has not always been a weakness. I'm talking about my very poor resistance to illness.
I have almost died several times because of grievous illness. The first time was shortly after I was born, maybe three or four weeks after; I contracted a serious case of bronchitis that necessitated a hospital stay. For my parents, who had lost an infant to a miscarriage (he would have been my older brother, and they named him Mario), my bout with bronchitis was a very big scare indeed. Their relief that I survived it probably counts as one of their biggest collective joys.
In my teens I survived hemorrhagic fever and Hepatitis A. Both times I had very serious manifestations of the disease which, my doctors said, may have possibly killed me.
Throughout my life, I've been quite susceptible to going down with colds and flu and other "minor" ailments. I've observed that I'm more vulnerable than most people to such things. That is the penalty of living with a naturally weak immune system.
If there is one facet in my physical make-up that I wish I could change, certainly it's my immune system. It is almost like a handicap. It's a difficult burden to bear, but all I can do is try to artificially improve it through ingesting big doses of Vitamin C daily.
At least there is a remedy, albeit one that is no panacea. But it's better than nothing at all.
:: Posted by txtmstrjoe AT 7/28/2008 12:52:28 PM
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