Good and Bad

The good part of having whooping cough:

• Everyone is all impressed with your exotic disease. People keep asking if you'll be diagnosed with scurvy next.
  
  
• You can one-up everyone else in your office who is sick. "Well, I see your influenza and raise you WHOOPING COUGH."
  
  
• Fun puns all around! "Can I get a whoop, whoop?" "Don't piss me off, lest I open a can of WHOOPING COUGH on your ass." "Well if it's a WHOOPIN' you're wanting, you've come to the right place!"
  
  
• Dropping two pounds because the antibiotics make you completely uninterested in food.

The bad part of having whooping cough:

• Actually having whooping cough, which, for the record, sucks.
  
  
• People who back away from you and hide under their shirts all, "OhmyGOD, are you CONTAGIOUS?" and then having to launch into the whole explanation about how you were, but aren't anymore.
  
  
• Feeling as though your entire lifeforce has been zapped from your body.
  
  
• Missing out on cool activities since you've been convalescing.

The Best News: I think I'm finally Whooping Cough free! Well, mostly. I still have a residual cough. But I'm done with antibiotics and I feel pretty normal. This concludes the Whooping Cough Blog of '08, may I never mention having whooping cough here again.