I've been sick for last (nearly) 3 weeks. Ken and Alek managed to pick it up from me starting on Friday. Now just about the time I thought I was getting over it, it seems to be coming back, a bit worse this time. I started coughing again last night. Every time I get a lingering sickness, I start breaking out in those awful boils/skin bumps that I've had off and on for nearly 2 years now. It happens every time I stay sick for longer than a week. I know that it has something to do with my kidneys but I don't know how to prevent it from happening. I think its my body trying to cleanse the toxins as well as the germs/sickness out of my body & it gets overloaded because my kidneys can't handle it. They HURT LIKE HELL and get swollen up pretty badly. I get them all over my body (arms, legs, stomach, back, butt... I've even had one on my shoulder and on the top of my knee, once.) Usually I'll only get 2 - 5 at at time... this time I've only had 2. The worst one was right on my very upper leg/lower butt so it's been painful to sit for the last week. The only thing my nephrologist ever does for the boils is pump me full of IV or oral anti-biotics to kill the infection & bacteria. I hate those drugs, even though they take care of the problem. Thinking how my body is slowly getting resistant to antibiotics over time just kills me. I take them so often, it seems. There are just some days, that no matter how positive I am, I just hate my body for not working. The side effects are downright annoying and they cramp my lifestyle.