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I have been down with flu for the second time in two months.

I have visited the doctor's clinic last week complaining that I have a burning throat and a slightly runny nose, and he told me I had common flu (upper respiratory tract infection to be accurate), he gave me some meds and off I went.

I finished my meds (almost) and was coughing really badly over last weekend.  I dragged myself to the doctor's clinic again yesterday.  This time, there was a different doctor.

Doc: Your airway is quite constricted, do you / your family have a history of asthma, maybe when you were a child?

me: No...  None of us in my family used to have asthma...

Doc: Oh, that's better...  [more questions about how crappy I felt] You have infections in your airway, and your airway is quite constricted.  I will give you some meds to help you with that.  You also need antibiotics this time to rid your infections.  Remember to finish the whole course of meds. [blah blah blah]

me: Err...  I have infections in my airway?  So...  Just infections, not bronchitis...?

Doc: Oh, no, you do have bronchitis, you just started to have it.  Not too bad...  [what? bronchitis is not bad enough?] People who have serious bronchitis will have trouble breathing....  You don't have pneumonia...yet... (quite light-heartedly)

me: -_-"'

So, here I am with bronchitis, coughing so badly that my head aches, keeping me up all night coughing and making me feel like crap.  Glad that the meds are starting to work and I am feeling a little better now.  Need to go back to work tomorrow...