As an addendum to my previous post, I would like to say that I am fully recovered from the swine flu. Unfortunately, as soon as I rid myself of the swine flu, I found that I had contracted another wonderfully pleasant ailment—acute tonsillitis. You may imagine just how flabbergasted I was to have gotten over one disease only to come down with another. My exchange with the physician, in a mixture of English and Chinese, went something like this:
Me: Acute Tonsillitis?!
Doctor: Yes!
Me: Wonderful. (Note that this was said steeped in sarcasm.)
Doctor: Wonderful?
Me: I mean… terrible! Very bad! (Native Chinese speakers have no concept of sarcasm because the language is inflectionless; Americans tend to forget this on a regular basis.)
Doctor: Okay!
Me: But… acute tonsillitis? Why?
Doctor: Because you are sick man!
I can only conclude that he meant that my immune system was weaker than usual, dealing as it had been with the swine flu. I would also like to state for the record that I am not, in fact, a sick man.
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