Sometimes I feel like I'm living in a nation of hypochondriacs. Every time I so much as sniffle people ask me if I'm okay and suggest that I should see a doctor. It seems like when people get sick here they are much more likely to take extra time off to recover out of a fear of staying sick - I'm talking of the middle class and above here, the lower classes are actually more likely to come to work when they are sick out of fear of losing their job because they need the money. But I digress.
When I arrived pretty much no one in the office could believe that I was actually working with a broken foot. Now I will admit that I was a bit crazy, but I couldn't imagine sitting at home all day doing nothing just waiting for it to heal, I would have been bored out of my mind. If I had been back home I would have found a way to work; at least working from home.
Also, two people in the office have gone to the doctor because they weren't feeling well and were told to take a few days off because of their blood pressure. Concerns about blood pressure seem to be really big here. Could you imagine calling in sick because of high blood pressure?
I guess when you live in a country with lots of wacky diseases and stuff (one woman in the office had typhoid this September and spent 2 weeks in the hospital) that it kind of makes sense to be a bit paranoid.
I saw a mosquito in my apartment yesterday and completely freaked out; I have a fear of getting bitten and catching a disease; so I guess I'm paranoid but in a different way. It is the first one I've seen inside so far but I stocked up on mosquito stuff today - OFF has this thing you can plug into your wall, kind of like those candles that keep mosquitoes away, so I bought two and they are doing their thing right now killing the bugs.
So far I'm healthy (knock on wood) and my blood pressure seems to be just fine.
Final note: congrats to Nelly and Rob on the birth of their baby boy :)
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