I'm sick

It started last Thursday with a sore throat and a raspy voice. Teaching aggravated the situation. By Friday morning I felt a fever coming on. I laid low Friday night. I had a pretty busy weekend, just checking out the city. My cough got worse and worse. By Monday morning, my voice was gone, I felt like crap and I was coughing up my lungs. My throat was sore from coughing so much too. On Tuesday at work, I was coughing so hard, I threw up. I had to leave my class unattended for about an hour. But there are no sick days at my school, so when I was done, I rinse all the eye makeup off that was running down my face, and got on with the teaching. Why hadn't I been to a doctor yet? Well I remember having something like this in that past and seeing a doctor, and getting the old "its a virus and there's nothing we can do". So I just went with that. On Wednesday I felt less barfy, but the cough was terrible. On Thursday morning, I realized it was time to see a doctor because I was coughing up blood.

There's an international clinic 3 blocks from my house. I went in, registered or whatever and saw the doctor, who spoke english. She asked me a bunch of questions. She asked me about shots or a shot. I haven't had any shots in a while, but later, someone told me that they administer medication in a doctor's office by a shot. Ah yes, I remember now Leesa telling me about her doctor experience. When they gave her whatever shot she got, they spanked her ass before they stuck the needle. That was all I could think about after that, sitting in the doctor's office.

Then I went to a small room and they gave me a breathing mask with steam and put some drops into some reservoir. I breathed that in for about 4 minutes, got my prescription and left.

The prescription was for 2 days. I got 3 little packets of pills for each day, breakfast lunch and dinner. Each packet had 4 pills in them. I got 3 packets of cough syrup (individual doses are in little packets, so cute!) for each day and then some other pills to take right before bed. It was a lot of medication.

I have to go back on Monday morning. I don't know what I have but I guess the closest thing would be a lung infection. It doesn't help that all my students are sick, as are half the teachers I work with. I feel better, however the mornings are the worst. I wake up a few times in the night from coughing. I feel sorry for my neighbour.