Antibióticos son buenos

So, I am most definitely still sick and getting worse here. I still have whatever it is I got in Oregon, which doesn't seem to respond to vitamin C, allergy medicine, sleep, or ibuprofen. The nurse for the orchestra gave me some antibiotics today. Maybe that will work? Oh, and the whole orchestra got inoculated for yellow fever today, too. Everyone is walking around with sore arms. The vaccine is required for entering Brazil. Speaking of Brazil, there are a lot of long faces today because of their defeat at the World Cup. A therapeutic soccer game is underway now in front of the hotel.
Rehearsals started today. Since we need four flutes for the Mahler, all of us get time off occasionally because they will rehearse a piece we're not playing in. I'm not playing in the Brahms symphony, which is a little disappointing, but I guess that's what happens when you play your audition tired, sick, and relatively unprepared.
Really, I'm kind of relieved that I don't have anything seriously important to do. I would be really stressed out right now. Instead, I can just sit back and enjoy playing and traveling. We also rehearsed Shostakovich 9 and Chavez's 2nd Symphony today.