a random weekend

The sharp pain in her throat made the rest of the day so uncomfortable. The concentration lacked at her art class, she had an argument over what to order for dinner at a restaurant and she just went to sleep in pain, receiving a million offline msgs n MSN, from people laughing to themselves about her incident.

The following day, after having found a parking lot in the busy a private hospital she made her way to her appointment with an ENT specialist. That changed her first perception, that not only government hospitals were crowded but private ones too.

After having waited for her Dr to finish his ‘case’ which means surgery in the medical term, she finally got to see him. But only to have her nose numbed so that he could stick a tube through it cause he could not see what was causing the prickliness in her throat. So a good 5 songs later on her ipod, she’s there trying to choke on the tube which was ticking her not so numb throat. And guess what she gets sent to X-ray because apparently that tube was not smart enough. Sigh.

Off she goes to the X-ray department located at the other end of the building to find like half the hospital waiting there to either get and X-ray, MRI or pick up their ‘films’ which are the results. She wanted to suggest they stick up a number taking system instead of calling out for names, but oh well maybe those people just enjoy doing that.

About six people later, she finally gets called, mind you that was a good half an hour, so she gets like two junior doctors. An Indian and Malay, they must be the jolliest dR’s she’s met in a long time. Lol. Anyway so after having the Indian dude repeat the same 5 instructions 10 times and getting rid of all the metal in her body she goes for her X-ray. Two X-rays later, they found the cause and sent her up to the Dr again.

And he goes, he can’t just take it out like that it needs a operation. So she’s like ok, one tiny thing, and what harm can it do. She signs herself in for a bed two hours after and checks herself in.

When the time comes, she’s asked to dress down and change into a blue gown. They ask her 10 million questions and even take a blood test, now she’s becoming nervous. Then they wheeled her down to the theatre in the bed, she’s started to shiver slightly, but we aren’t sure if it was due to the cold or nervousness. Down at the theatre a cheerful DR introduces himself as the anaesthetic. She freaks out. 10 minutes later she’s in the operation theatre, with all those ER stuff around and all that, plus they started her ECG and she totally had a panic attack just as they put her to sleep so that they could operate on her.

When she woke up she found herself in her room again with a bad sore throat and massive dizziness, but at least it was all over. She vowed to herself to look for fish bones before she ate a fish as she did not one stuck down her throat ever again.

And that was the lovely weekend before school and work again