My first time getting hospitalized
I moved back home to Korea after living in California for the past 5 years, and recently started a part time job as an English teacher. Working with kids, in a country with poor air quality and cold winters, means you're more susceptible to contracting sicknesses. People in the US always talks about how bad the smog is in Los Angeles, but they really don't know how good they have it compared to those in East Asia. Spring season in Korea is known as the season of "yellow dust" - it's apparently nearly impossible to go around without wearing a mask. I'm not really looking forward to it, haha. Anyway, the flu season has been pretty bad here, and I caught a cold within the first two weeks of work. I was hoping that the cold was light and would go away soon, but my coughing kept getting worse. Nearly 5 hospital visits later, I was diagnosed with allergy-induced asthma. Took an X-ray of my lungs, got a spirometry, and was prescribed medicines to treat it. My sym...
