Falling ill is now always suspicious

I fell ill with a sinus infection last Wednesday. It's going around like wildfire here; almost epidemic style. The hospital had a brash of upper respiratory infections and the nursing home was even on quarantine for a week or so. I work in healthcare so I'm exposed to all of these bugs and caught it. Of course I'm thinking to myself well is this the beginning of the rest of my life? Will I forever be catching every bug that flies through simply because I have HIV? 

My last CD4 was 495 which is only five points below normal and I've heard of people having counts much lower and already I'm getting sick. It was a bit disheartening because I'm on meds as well. I've been on Atripla for almost a month now. And yet still getting stick.

Then I thought to myself, well maybe I was just one of the unfortunate ones that caught the bug and that's that. It certainly doesn't help that I'm a smoker. I know that.  Needless to say, I'm starting to feel better and I'm on antibiotics. That's all I can do. I was out of commission for a day. That's not horrible. It's important for me to stay positive in this fight because when I start to wallow in self-pity I have a tendency to get stuck there. Thankfully I have a lot of positive support around me and online. These are just some of my ramblings today, I guess such is life with a chronic condition that attacks the immune system.