As I’ve related here before, I have the immune system to beat all immune systems.
When the local cold virus mutates all I get is some nasal stuffiness (mostly in the
mornings) for a few days. I am pretty well convinced I fought off the flu yesterday
(woke up feeling a tad achy with sensitive skin, minor headache, felt a little feverish,
woke up this morning feeling fine with sweaty skin, which usually indicates a broken
fever). An immunologist somewhere would undoubtedly love to get his hands on me-
so how would I go about doing that and volunteering? BTW my mother’s side of the
family tends to be very long-lived and youthful for their ages, and on the latter score
at least I’m no exception.
So you want someone to see if they can overcome your system and give you a really nasty infection?
Hot damn! Come on over! I’m serving up HIV, Hep C, MRSA, and a few garden varieties of community-acquired pneumonia.
I’m not sure why you think sweaty skin must mean a ‘broken fever’, though. Lotsa reasons for breaking a sweat.
Contact your local teaching hospital or medical school, and ask about volunteering for medical experimentation.
Or go to this site: So You Wanna – Learn to do just about anything…
Or google: “medical experimentation” volunteer
A Mad Scientist will come around shortly to escort you to a small cage in the basement of his creepy lair.
I think we’ve already been visited by one!
eyes Qadgop suspiciously
“Broken” means the fever is over, right? Because one day last week, I found myself absolutely drenched in ill sweat (among other unpleasent symptoms) at about 10:00 AM, and as of 4:30 PM, I was still running a fever, as measured by the NP at the student health center.
(feeling much better now, in case you’re wondering)
Is that really unusual? I am around plenty of germ-ridden people, yet I haven’t been sick since high school (I am 23). Not counting the ill effects of too much alcohol consumption, of course.