| Get well soon, pengyou. I had a fever when one of my "wisdom teeth" was taken out, wasn't an infection-- just a "stress response" to the surgery. Oddly enough, when I was in Beijing recently, I also got a nasty fever, 38.6 degrees, after a long day at work and a brutal ride home. Wo xia ban shihou, I swear-- where I was walking and when I got on the train, ALMOST EVERYBODY was smoking like crazy, and they were smoking those awful cigarettes you often find in China with that rotten odor. I hate cigarette smoke in general, and now I was surrounded by people smoking like crazy. When I got home, I vomited, and then at night the fever came-- the doctor said it was probably extreme stress and, frankly, the inability to even breathe. I always thought a fever was due to infection, but apparently not. If I could make one request before I return to China (and I may not return, considering how unpleasant that experience was)-- please, please start up a serious anti-smoking campaign the way we have in California. Even if you don't do it for your own health in China, please do it for us expatriates, because you're making us sick in China with all that awful secondhand smoke!!! We don't want to come back because the air is too unpleasant to breathe, and you're losing business. Why do you all smoke so much? Don't you know how dangerous and unhealthy it is? Why don't you mount a serious anti-smoking campaign? Besides being healthier, anti-smoking is a big, profitable industry-- in the US, people make billions from nicotine gum and patches, and therapeutic techniques to stop smoking, so you in China could get incredibly rich from helping people to stop smoking. Just, however you do it-- don't smoke so much! It makes the air extremely unpleasant and hard to breathe! |
Got Fever - 38.4 C