Falling apart

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Last week when walking around the city I came across these mannequins on the sidewalk, they were out for bulk trash pickup, but when I saw them my first thought was these would make for a cool photo with a title of falling apart.

Little did I know a few days later I would have a chest Infection/Bronchitis and feeling like I am falling apart.

But gives me a post for tonight.

I know the antibiotics will kick this infection and clear my chest and throat, how do I know you may ask, well that's easy I have had Pneumonia and Bronchitis a few times over the years so know the routine.

Now I couple of asked how come I am unlucky enough to get chest infections so many times, and I thought I would touch on that in this post.

I have been truly lucky to have had the opportunity to travel a lot through my job over the years, having been to over 60 Countries, now some of these countries I have been to, places many may want to visit, but quite a few were places people probably may not have on their wish list of countries to visit.

Unfortunately in some of the countries when visiting after war or conflict the conditions are not great and there is a risk of picking up things and I have had both Malaria and Tuberculosis.

I was fully treated of the TB, which was a long treatment I was on the meds for over a year and is a story on its own, but in short each morning for seven months I had a person from the health department to deliver and watch to make sure I took my medications, once the seven months were over I was so Happy to be done with the meds and the visits, but then they discovered I had a resistance to one of the meds so I was only off them for a week, before I got called in again and was back on the meds for another 6 Months.

But the end result was I was cleared of the TB, but it did a fair bit of damage to my lungs and making me more susceptible to infections.

I have been asked if I had known when I started in this work and hearing some of my stories and the dangerous situations I have bene in, would I do it again. and I have to say yes I would do it all again, sure I have been in some scary situations, and have the health issues, but I have also had so many amazing experiences that I would never give up.