I’ve been staying at home since yesterday, and by the looks of it I won’t be going back to work until Monday.
Yesterday whilst taking a bath to get ready for work, I felt a weird growth on my cheek near the ear, where the sideburns are. Instead of heading to the office, I went to the hospital. My doctor told me that it appears to be parotitis, a common symptom for mumps.
So I’m homebound for the rest of the week, not unless I want to risk the fertility of all those single guys in the office who have yet to have children. 
5 responses so far ↓
1 Prudence // Jun 19, 2008 at 9:53 am
Ang tanda mo na, ngayon ka pa lang nagka-mumps. Hihi.
At manakot daw ba ng ibang bachelors about orchitis. Ahahaha.
Don’t worry too much about it. Subsequent sterility from orchitis is actually rare. I think one should even be more aware of the possibility of encephalitis, which occurs relatively more frequently than orchitis. And males are more affected than females O_0
http://www.emedicine.com/ped/TOPIC1503.HTM
2 Jon Limjap // Jun 19, 2008 at 10:52 am
prudence,
Oo nga eh! Ewan ko ba kung saan ko nakuha ito.
Anyway, I’m hoping the antivirals work already. The lump was beginning to get painful this morning.
3 cocoy // Jun 21, 2008 at 5:05 am
hey man, get well soon!
4 BlogusVox // Jun 22, 2008 at 7:53 pm
Maybe its a virus you got from your computer hehehe. I got sick last week and just went back to work the other day. Ikaw naman ngayon.
Get well soon.
5 Bubu // Jul 2, 2008 at 12:58 pm
Ummm… I wonder why I first read it as “patriotitis”.
Hope you get better!
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