So, for about three weeks I’ve been fighting this ugly cough that just won’t leave me alone. I’ve given up trying to see the doctor (at least for something so minor as this), because what usually happens is that they love to give you IVs, which in other places in the world are only given when you are seriously sick. I prefer the No-IV-route, so I had a friend of mine go and get me some medicine back when I was so sick a couple weeks ago. (Funny how without showing up with the patient here, they’ll give your friends plenty of medicine that will take care of whatever is bugging you.) Well, I started taking the pills my friend got me when I was still in bed all the time, and all they do is put you to sleep. So when I started feeling like getting up again, I stopped taking this medicine, because I didn’t want to sleep all day. I wanted to be up and able to get active again. But I guess can’t just have it all. It’s either or. Take medicine and spend your days sleeping while hoping to get well; or don’t take the pills, which means that you won’t get better quickly, but at least you don’t waste your time away sleeping all day long. I opted for the second one. Wrong choice?