Learning to write in the tropics

 Today I dreamt of creating my own meme. There is something almost cathartic about them and my current situation definitely seems meme appropriate. As a medical historian, I have fairly good knowledge of what diseases were eradicated with vaccines, which weren’t but are no longer so latent, and which are still merely roaming the earth. Or so I thought…..turns scarlet fever, the disease that caused Beth’s heart to weaken in Little Women, and so it stayed in my mind as something from that period and like several from that time period, it was no longer ‘around’. To my surprise, the daughter of some friends may have had a mild case after an outbreak of it in her nursery. So one week later, after an encounter with said child, I found myself with a bad sore throat, I am prone to laryngitis so I didn’t connect it to the child and her possible scarlet fever-induced rash. I don’t actually have scarlet fever but, predictably, laryngitis but for a day or so before going to the GP it crossed my mi