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Article: Affair with my throat
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- The Press
- Article date:
- August 22, 2009
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I've always wanted to be a medical anomaly and now my big day has
arrived.
I am impenetrable to swine flu. My neighbours had a family-wide
case and I was exposed to them during every stage of their
infection. I breathed their air, I touched their surfaces.
I had heard tales of such pain and delirium - the father had
given way to fever-fuelled hallucinations that his world was
inhabited by large isosceles triangles and twice he believed his six-
month old baby had spoken to him.
At one point I was surrounded by three of their germ-ridden
children who coughed on me simultaneously at close range. It was
germ warfare but I survived. I was feeling very smug. In fact, I was
right in the middle ...