Illness # 3

We can now add some kind of funky skin rash to my list of minor illnesses I've had since I got here. I was playing basketball with Nils and Marco today and I started to feel as if I had a sunburn on the back of my neck. I didn't think much of it until it started to sting a little more, and then the sensation spread to the soft part of my shoulders near the neck. I had Nils take a look at it and he said "That's not a sunburn. It's on your shoulders and back too." Coincidentally, there was a chemist (pharmacy) immediately beside the basketball court. I went in and consulted the pharmacist. He suggested it may be a chemical burn or an infection. I told him I had been sick last week but that the symptoms were almost completely gone. He said that when we are sick with a virus and continue to do sport or go to the gym, as I did, it may get rid of the common symptoms faster by relocalising the infection in the skin through our sweat. In other words, I chased the infection out of my system but some of it stayed in my skin. He said I should consult a doctor or dermatologist, and that's what I'll do tomorrow. I would post some pictures, but I'm sure nobody wants to see that and it doesn't really show up in photos. Until next post...