The weather in Ho Chi Minh City has been wonderful this week – cool, breezy, partly cloudy with occasional rain showers. The air even feels refreshing especially compared to the sealed airconditioned atmosphere we’re used to being in. I’ve had the balcony doors wide open to clear the space. If this continues, it’ll be no problem taking my mother-in-law shopping next week at all the non-airconditioned, sheltered but not enclosed markets except…I’m still feeling sick.

The cold that struck us all down early last week has mostly passed. Marv and Stephen are both fine now but I’m still trying to shake the last vestiges of a phlegmy cough and stuffed up nose. I’m wondering if my continued raw nasal passages are from allergies instead. The fresh air must be carrying pollen or some other allergens.

The strangest thing is that I’ve never seen my part-time helper sick. Occasionally, she might seem a little puffy around the eyes or I might catch a whiff of Eagle medicated oil. But other than that, she’s never called in sick, blown her nose in my presence, cough, or shown any other cold symptoms.

Maybe I’m sick from laziness, not allergies.

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