To take or not to take medicine...

I've been sitting around for the past half hour wondering if people die of colds. I've ignored my cold for 4 days now and i'm beginning to fear it might be too late. Perhaps I should drop this and write my will now. I'm not sure why I get sick so often... it just happens! I eat healthily, I exercise, I take care of myself - I guess the only thing to blame is the airconditioning.

Here in Hk you step out onto the street and its 95% humid and almost 30degrees - you immediately break into a sweat - carefully applied makeup begins to melt away, your nicely styled hair begins to frizz up, the clothes on your back that just seconds ago smelt of clean are now absorbing the sweat oozing out of your skin. Charming! You then step indoors and you break through this invisible wall where hot air meets freezing air - the airconditioning is blasting and you can almost hear your skin go *tssssss*. No wonder I'm sick.

A friend of mine is always preaching me about our body's capabilities of healing itself without the need of medication. I believe this is true but I always take medicines. This time round i decided to test this theory. I started feeling unwell thursday evening... ''oh it's just a cold'' i said to myself. Scratchy throat...runny nose...no medicine. Saturday rolls around and cold is still there. I cough up a green slime ball. No medicine. Sunday i'm having coffee with Lilly and i can hardly hear her talk from across the table. My ears are blocked. No medicine. Monday I wake up with no voice and I can barely talk to my boss to tell her i'm too sick to go to work. 3hours ago I concluded that I love me and i'm not a masochist and pay a visit to Dr. Fok Lai who tells me I have a throat infection, gives me medicine and the routine advice of ''no chilli, no spicy, no candy''! Yes Sir!

So do you seriously think i'm gonna sit around staring at my medicines while my infection eats away at my insides!
I think not!