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2007-01-01

Happy Date-When-I-Screw-Up-My-Cheques-For-The-Next-Two-Months

Filed under: General — 19day @ 01:26:50

So it’s 2007, hurrah *waves flag*

Resolutions, the same as they have always been, lose mass and/or alternately find partner who isn’t concerned with my mass. Both are equally improbable as in 2006.

As I wrote in my holidaymas entry, I’m still sick. Under the advisement of my mother, I struggled into the walk-in clinic that’s relatively close to me. I as yet haven’t obtained a local doctor.

It was mostly an excersize in futility as I was waiting there for 2 hours, sucking up all the other ailments around me, and then got invited into to an office which doubles as another waiting room. I’d just call it a Personal Waiting Room rather than a doctors office, because when you wait in there 20 minutes, but the doctor only looks at you for 5, then I think the majority function should rule when deciding it’s name.

And of course, as it’s been for the last couple of times where I had a terrible strep-throat feeling, they say they can see nothing wrong at all. So of course the constant pain I’m in and having been unable to sleep for 3-4 days at this point (can no longer remember how long I’ve been awake at this junction) must just be in my head or something… like my gall-bladder pain was until someone spotted the real problem.

He was unwilling to just give me a general antibody prescription, and so I asked for something to manage the pain. I got a gargle which works maybe slightly better than the Chloraseptic spray I’ve been using, but at least I don’t swollow the gargle. That spray really upsets one’s stomach when you end up having to go 5000% over the daily limited dosage. I also got some pain killer drug called Tramacet which I’m allowed to take 1-2 pills every 8 hours. It’s not that I’m adverse to pain medication, I wanted it, but I also wanted something to deal with the root of the problem since I’m not sure this will go away on it’s own.

So I took 2 pills, gargled, had something to drink, and eventually did finally fall asleep. I woke up about 6 hours later. My throat was a bit sore, so I got up and opted to just gargle again so I could more quickly sleep. Now I don’t know if my body just wanted me to sleep at this point, or if I was having an adverse reaction to the pills, but I felt *awful* when I got to the bathroom. I felt incredibly lightheaded, dizzy, and was afraid I was going to throw up. But I managed to quickly gargle and stumbled back to the bed, and realized I was covered in sweat and the bed was soaked (er… from sweat) but I just decided to sleep again.

Now I’m awake again. It’s been 12 hours since the first time I fell asleep, so that’s not bad, I still have to catch up through I think, after missing so much sleep. I decided to just take a single pill now that it’s past the 8 hour dosage period, just in case it is the pills causing the side-effects. I don’t care ultimately, just as long as I can sleep. Unfortunately, this will be useless for work tomorrow, since being dizzy and nauseous won’t really help my productivity, unless we manufacture vomit.

One thing that might suggest I don’t have a strep throat after all is that when I woke up now and went to the bathroom, my throat was actually pretty sore again, but then I started coughing. I tend to check the colour of my phlegm… sensitive people/sana’a may wish to stop reading at this point…. anyway, earlier on in my sickness it was pretty much white and bloody, which is how it always goes with me. During the past couple of days, I didn’t really have much phlegm but I coughed up little bits of it regularly and whenever I looked it just looked whitish. But now that I’ve been able to sleep, a lot built up, so I coughed, with apologies, a large amount up. And the colour is sort of in-between the ones to look out for. It’s sort of a yellowy-greenish, but much darker than I would have expected, I don’t understand that. As it’s more yellowy than green, I will assume my body is fighting the infection. Which still could be strep, but from the first statement in this paragraph, it’s because my throat hurt less after I coughed all that crap up. I don’t recall having that effect with strep, so maybe I just have a really really really bad cold.

In any case, it’s been the suckiest week of my life (in recent memory)

I guess I’ll try to avoid a repeat in 2007. I’m dizzy again, back to bed I guess.

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