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I don’t like getting sick often.
Back when I was still in school I’ve no problem with getting sick heck I even pretended to have a fever just so I won’t have to go to class but now it’s different. I realized that your health is definitely your insurance so better invest on it. I consider myself fit and healthy though there are just these instances that I’m plague with sickness and it’s unavoidable, I’m not superman after all. It’s been like two week already of being sick and it’s really evident – I’m thinner than before the bones in my wrist is now visible. The first week I got a fever probably because of the rainy nights we’ve been having. So I diligently took my medicine and after that I was cured or so I thought. It wasn’t long that I developed tonsillitis and that’s not all, soon enough little white spots begin to pop out all over my tongue. I was freaked out, I mean WTF man, what the hell is this!? It was very annoying and painful especially when food touches my tongue it was like sipping boiling hot coffee – awww! It was so painful to even chew yet alone swallow food, needless to say my diet was affected. I find it hard to ingest chucky food so I was constantly eating arozcaldo and plenty of water and what not. I asked my ‘nurse’ sister what will happen if I continue with this kind of diet, she said I would be like Palito – thin with bones protruding and the way I see it now it’s not that far of an assumption. My sister even joked around and calls my attention if she’s eating scrumptious looking food – just my luck! A few days followed and it got worse the soreness of my whole mouth has reduced my communication skills to that of a mute person. Well at least mute people know sign language, me I struggle to communicate with pen and paper. It was serious and even though I’m very afraid going on checkups it needed to be done. So my uncle accompanied me to the hospital. It was nerve wrecking, I don’t know why I’m a bit nervous with I’m in hospitals and clinics with doctors and nurses around. It was also very nostalgic, I remembered the time I was confined for pneumonia wherein I was literally on the brink of death if I was even admitted to the hospital a day late. Those were fun times heheh. When we got there, we scanned through corridors for the doctor’s clinic only to find that we would have to wait till 3pm for his arrival. The wait wasn’t really that long and soon enough the doctor came and thankfully we were first on the list. He was not that old as I imagined, in fact he was still young in his late 30’s to 40. He commented if I was really 23 heheh I figured he was just making me feel at ease. As he began to diagnose my condition I can’t help but feel uncomfortable as I surveyed his hip yet sterile clinic - I can’t wait to get out of here. But a few minutes passed and I was asking questions (trying hard to talk) to the doc regarding my condition and what should be done to prevent this to even talks of surgically removing my tonsils… After the checkup we were handed a prescription and let me tell you the drugs are very expensive another reason why we should not get sick (Clusivol – “bawal magkasakit”).
Now that I’m recovering I felt a tad relief and hope I won’t have to go through that again.
So what’s next? Well I need to eat more! I made a promise to myself that as soon as I was feeling better I’ll go food tripp’n and maybe a movie too.
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ayan! ayan!!! be well pao…
Louver 05.24.07 @ 9:22 am