Today is a sick day.

We are either experiencing severe allergies, which is totally possible, or we have colds.  With less than six days of my trip left, I may be forced to save some things I had planned to do for someday in the future.  But who knows, maybe we will be well tomorrow.

One of the great things about having a chemist around is that he knows about the different ingredients in medicine.  I’d be lost without the classic packaging and titles like Claritin or Mucinex D.  So Brandon is off to the pharmacy to pick up some medicine with the same ingredients as the ones we use back home.  I wonder if this is when the dried seahorses or bats or hud hud birds would come in handy.  I’ll go with science first.

This just in, I looked around a bit online and discovered this about those seahorses:

“They are being hunted since 342 BC and it is now the hottest recipe for traditional medicines of China, Korea and Thailand as an aphrodisiac, a drug against bronchial asthma and whooping caugh [sic],” Sreepada told AFP.

…”Demand appears to be greater than supply. The trade is rapidly growing and the populations of seahorses are being over-exploited with many places approaching the danger of extinction,” it said in a classified document made available to AFP.

I do have some sort of bronchial woes and a cough… but NEVER would I crunch down some dusty old seahorse.  YUCK.  I’m sure I’d end up sicker.