Yup. Had my first (and hopefully last) experience with the British doctors today as I went in for an appointment to get a prescription for what I suspected to be my sinus infection. Since I've been sick all week and barely claiming an ounce of productivity - hence the lack of posting - I figured it was time to see the pro's. Well I called it, sinus infection all the way. I'm on some anti-biotics that, among other things, might turn me yellow and make me barf for 7 days to clear it up. Hopefully none of the particularly nasty side-effects come on, cause that would be bad. Then again, they're always bad, who am I kidding?
Basically I paid a guy ₤30.00 to let me diagnose myself in front of him and scribble on his prescription pad after pushing on my face to see if I had painful swelling in my sinuses and take my pulse with his fingers on my wrist. Same as home really, maybe a little less high-tech. Then I got to hoof it to Boots, the local "chemist" - a Walgreens essentially - and get my script filled. I've been keeping up on homework as best I can, though some of the reading that isn't related to immediate papers has been bumped out of the routine in favour of much needed napping.
I figured out that if I put my computer, with cooling pad under it, on my desk chair it sits just right to be viewed from my bottom bunk bed, so I was really glad I brought some DVDs with me to watch on it. Planet Earth series is great to go to sleep to. A steady diet of Ramen when the hall food isn't appealing has kept me fed (Thanks babe for sending the box of provisions!) and I've been sticking mostly to my room and the libraries between meals so as not to spread my illness and also because I am not particularly social when I am coughing and sneezing and blowing my nose every 3 minutes; incidentally, I've been through three boxes of tissue.
Of course, I am not the only one who is sick. Half of the building has a cold or a flu or something - the locals call it Fresher's Flu, which is basically when all the students share germs and get each other sick, their professors too usually. I just happened to luck into the bonus round of sinus infection since I am prone to them.
Anyway, just thought I'd let you all know I am still alive and will hopefully be getting better and having more to say as the week wears on.
Take your vitamins, eat something before you take the antibiotic, and buy tissue with the lotion in it so your nose doesn't get to red. Tea is good for coughs and sore throats, especially if you have some honey to put in it. Da says you have to get better soon or he will have to come over there!!
ReplyDeleteThanks Mommy :) Yeah these are make you nauseous anti-biotics so I have to take em with food and Tums (lucky I brought some, they have "bicarbonate" over here... sounds icky to me!) and I have been taking my vitamins and doing my best to stay on top of work and nap and all that stuff I'm supposed to do to get better. Give Da my love too, - and feel better yourself ya?
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