March 19^th, 2005

Bloody hell! I am sick again! This makes number four (not counting the on-going bronchitis) in eight weeks! I don't know what more I can do about it. It has to be the airplane air. I just can't think of anything else that it could be.

My doctor is Chinese, but he treats us Caucasian folks in the Great White Way, and his Chinese ex-patriots in more traditional Chinese methods. I am tempted—nay, I am so desperate that I actually want him—to try something more -er- Chinese with me. I doubt he could make it any worse, and maybe it would help.

I don't think it is an exaggeration to point out that it is a commonly-held belief that Chinese medicine is millenia ahead of Western medicine when it comes to problems with the respiratory system. I personally sit on the fence about whether that is true or not, but I am willing to use my body as a testing ground for it. I just hope that the medicine will work on big white dudes like me, and not just on Chinese people.

So, there are two big "ifs" in my mind, then:

• Whether or not Chinese medicine is more effective when it comes to ailments of the respiratory system, and

• Whether or not Chinese medicine in general works for us white folks.

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I don't know why, but I am suddenly reminded of what a Chinese friend of mine calls the Internet: "The Whole White World". :-)

Find that very funny, I do ...

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