Veggie love.

Just over a month ago I contracted what I think was sinusitis. It was terrible. It took a long time to develop; for awhile it was just the suspicion of illness. But once it did, it was two straight weeks of sinus pain, stuffiness, achiness, etc. Finally when I found out what I thought it was, thanks to Wikipedia, I tried steaming myself, and very quickly my sinuses drained. I still had a stuffy nose for another week, but the congestion and pain was gone.

Well, yesterday I woke up, to my horror and surprise, which a slight twinge of sickness again. Now, that's not so surprising, because some of my advisors recently got sick again, and I'm around them all the time. But it did suck. Anyway, by the time I started moving around, it had gone, but this morning, it struck me again. This time it's a little worse: my body feels quite tired.

So, it may or may not be relevant, but last Saturday I was playing games at Bagels and Beans with this local "Meet in Eindhoven" group, and so I didn't end up buying my usual supply of fruit and vegetables from the Saturday market. This entire week I've had I think one piece of fruit, a little bit of spinach, and a tomato or two. Normally I have at least two fruits a day, and plenty of vegetables. (Note that I, like normal humans, consider tomatoes to be vegetables. Thank you.)

It's worth considering whether this may have some link to my new illness, because senior year, at Northwestern, I think I had 10 or so pieces of fruit the entire year (unfortunately not an exaggeration!), and almost nothing in the way of vegetables. And that year, as some of you may remember, I got sick probably every three weeks. My immune system was nonexistent.

Is there a link? Who knows, but it's certainly an incentive to get out of the house today and go to the market.

+j

PS. This post is dedicated to Marc Gelfo.