Well, I got sick around Easter. Missed a week of school, and thought I got better... The following month was riddled with sore throats and I just thought they were nothing. I was wrong. Saturday, fearing it would get worse again and that I would miss finals week, I went to Doctors on Duty. The news (drum roll please) not so hot! "Um you have mono, well we aren't positive, but you've nailed all the symptoms." She gives me a blood test, the MA screws up the first needle stick and ends up having to stick me twice, but who cares... I've been stuck several times now, and have seen people get stuck more times, 2 aint too bad.
So I ask the Dr. before I leave, can I go to class, and she hands me a sick note. "Nope, not for at least a week she says." I told her finals were coming up, well, paper season really, but that I needed to be in class. "Just get incompletes, they don't affect your transcript once you do whatever it is your missing, my husband went to CSUMB, so I know how it works..." Before I stepped out, I told her that for the last few days i had had the worst stomachs ever, like a burning, gnawing, pain that moves across the top two quadrants and up the esophagus. She didn't seem to pay much attention to it, and said "go get some rest, here are some steroids to make your glands stop swelling and give you some energy."
Well as much as the steroids helped my glands, the following night I couldn't sleep
every time I got comfortable my stomach would hurt. So I had made a doctors appointment on campus on Friday too, but they told me to come in on Monday. I did. About 10 minutes after I get there, they open the doors and I see the Dr. this lady seemed really detached, i mean she was almost not there. I told her what the last Dr. said and told her why I was there and she says "We're gonna take more blood" You have an ulcer, if it's not an ulcer its something worse. (WAY TO GO DOC! THATS EXACTLY WHAT I WANT TO HEAR) Well, she was a no BS lady which was kinda cool, i just wasn't expecting it. She asks "Are you under any stress right now?" The inner me is screaming at her "NO, ITS FINALS SEASON AND I CAN'T GO TO CLASS, WTF DO YOU THINK?" I proceeded to tell her that yes, I was stressed out. Yes this was not a good time for me, and yes, I want to throw my hands up and just go home and give up for now. (I can't drive too far right now though, because I'll fall asleep....) So I'm stuck here, and just about done with my classes for the semester.
Then she says... You know mono can lead to Hepatitis right... (THATS A NEW ONE TO ME LADIES AND GENTS). Anyways, I get stuck again, they take my blood and she gives me a prescription to this miracle pill called protonix, I slept, so she hit that nail on the head. Now we wait until Friday to get the lab results back from both Dr.'s on Duty.
Are you ready for the icing on the cake? Yesterday I started a paper at 9:00 am ish, takes me all day to write a page, because I fell asleep a few times and the freaking AIM thing, people bugging me and stuff. About 1:00am i am on the 4th page and ready to go to bed. I saved it, and turned off the computer, but before it turned off it asked if I wanted to save, so I said sure, not realizing it was saving the old version of the paper. So i freak out, yell some obscenities and the computer genius I am remembered that Win XP has a feature which can restore it back in time, so I try that, I go back in time to 20 minutes before I turned the computer off... (I missed reading the prompt that talked about how everything that was saved, would not be altered). So it restarts back to like 12:40 or whatever and it didn't work. It saved over the last save and I had to stay up in order to get back to where i had left off...Man, that really sucked. But I finished it finally... Again, let me just reiterate how bad it sucked... IT REALLY SUCKED. There's nothing like kicking someone when they're already down is there?
Wednesday, May 9, 2007
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