The Quest for a Mile

The dern cold turned into a sinus infection. I get one or two of these a year. Darn it! But I called in today sick, and I've gotten the doctor to phone me in some antibiotics, and I've got a sweet husband who is doing all he can to help me out around the house and to make me feel better.

But, while I've been wallowing around struggling to breathe through my nose, I've been wondering about infections. Did you know that when you look up "infection" in the dictionary (or on-line at www.m-w.com, since I am a nerd), the VERY FIRST definition of "infection" is: " the act or result of affecting injuriously." (Go ahead. Look it up.)

So, could bad thinking/bad thoughts/depression be, literally, an infection of the mind?

Could excess weight be considered an infection of the body?

Perhaps I have been infected for a long time, but instead of turning to anyone for help, I just sat and saturated in my own infections. And, you know, if infections are left untreated, anybody knows that they will eventually consume you, even until the point of death.

Scary. Thank goodness for jogging, and blogging, and medicine!

And now, I must go back to bed. Too much profound thinking in a mucousy head is dangerous, too.

Posted in: infection on Monday, August 31, 2009 at at 1:24 PM