quelquefois

To the fellow who searched

neon yellow post nasal drip

and found my website, I’m sorry you’re dealing with that. Perhaps you have an infection? Good luck.

Best wishes,
Chang

Today I had an appointment at a Western hospital in Beijing. Although I am many hundreds of USD poorer (hopefully only temporarily until insurance pays me back), I finally know what the fuck is wrong with my body. I have sinusitis and bronchitis, and the sinusitis’ post-nasal drip is causing my phlegm. I will take antibiotics and antihistamines. Now, China, was it that hard?

On my way home from the hospital, I found Jenny Lou’s, a western grocery store with inflated prices (haha, kind of like Whole Foods, but dirtier). I thought it would be appropriate to make myself feel better about spending a lot of money by spending more money. So I bought alcohol (rum), cheese (halloumi, cottage), cereal (panda peanut butter puffs), and four loaves of bread (vegetable, pretzel, whole grain, banana). I also went into the local organic supermarket (yeah, I didn’t think they existed in China, either) and found avocados.

Oh, and I come online and find that access to the NYTimes has been restored. Life is complete.

To never want to speak to (or look at) a person again because:

a) this person cannot speak Chinese to save her life,
b) this person infected me with her vicious cough (that I just spent TEN MONTHS trying to get rid of) from not covering her mouth and letting her nasty germs float all over the hotel room,
c) I’m a bitch?

I haven’t been around because my computer died over a week ago and no one in China seems to be competent enough to fix it. I’m hoping to get this resolved soon (I’m pretty sure it’s a hard drive problem again…ugh).
The past five days I’ve been in Shanghai and Hangzhou. It was fun…up until I got food poisoning, vomited a LOT, and had to go to the hospital. The Chinese hospital…eughh. That pretty much destroyed my mini-vacation. I’m still feeling pretty shitty, but hopefully continue to get better throughout the week.
I miss you all, and I hope to hear from you guys soon. xoxoxxx