Saturday, February 20, 2010

I used to be healthy... Sniff! Sob! Sigh! Part 2

It was a surreal moment. I could feel myself suppressing laughter as he pushed the tip of my nose up to peer into my nostrils with the aid of the torchlight.

I had to make a visit to the doctor again this afternoon due to what I can only refer to as side effects of the flu that attacked me over three weeks ago, not to mention the few social invitations I had to decline, including one for tea just this afternoon with two friends I haven't seen in awhile and probably will not see in a long time because they are both being relocated out of the country!

The thing is, far from getting better in time as Leona Lewis emphasizes in her song that goes with the same title, the everlasting cough seems to have hurt my ribs to the point that tears freely poured out just the other day when I had run out of my supply of fisherman's friend and started having a fitful, uncontrollable coughing marathon (I've also been taking the cough medicine prescribed by the doctor and several traditional recipes courtesy of the mom), and to make matters worse, the pain seems to have spread even further to my external obliques and possibly even my glutes that sitting down is very, very painful. Standing up and sleeping is kind of alright, but walking seems a bit of an issue too. So my visit to the doctor was basically to obtain some pain killers so that I can live life like a normal person (I was hoping for an injection), and instead of that I had my nostrils scrutinized. One of my colleagues seems to be facing the exact same issues as me, but he was warded the other day because he started coughing blood. Turns out, his coughing of blood was not tuberculosis or cancer as suspected, but merely an internal injury caused by his consistent coughing! (Plus there was something about him being very, very thin and not having enough fatty tissues to protect himself from said internal injuries)

Back to the visit to the doctor... as I was explaining my history, he actually had the gall to tell me that I walked just fine, so my pain couldn't be that bad! (Of course I walked alright, it was a muscular ache, not a broken bone!), and he had that skeptical look in his face... probably thinking that I was some sort of junkie or something. Why don't doctors ever take pain seriously? (It happened once back in late 2005/early 2006 and I have quit going to that particular doctor for that very reason) Nevertheless, he gave me some medication, including some medicine for flu, (but why???), painkiller, cough medicine (again?), and some antibiotics... I took the painkiller about two hours ago, and seeing that I can actually sit down and type this out, looks like it is working indeed... we'll see how the rest of it goes though...

12 comments:

  1. Guess he thought you were a drug seeker. Hope the meds help and you feel better soon.

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  2. I guess you have to find a doctor bf so that you can get the painkillers easily and foc..;) Take care of your health. It is a wicked weather now anyway.

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  3. For me fisherman's friend does more harm than good .I recovered much faster once I stopped taking it.Take care and get well soon.

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  4. Hope u get better soon babe

    Think positively!

    *hugs*

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  5. sorry you're unwell, hope you wake up better tomorrow

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  6. here you go

    If:
    2 + 3 = 10
    7 + 2 = 63
    6 + 5 = 66
    8 + 4 = 96

    Then: 9 + 7 = ???


    Yes Terra that brain exercise thing seemed interesting... It seems as though 144 is the correct answer according to most people but i got 149 using logic:

    If you add all the numbers to the left you will get
    5=10
    9=63
    11=66
    12=96

    and you wanna find out what 9+7 equals. Well we already know from above that 9=63, so we just needs to find out what 7= and then just add them up.

    You get 7 by subtracting 12(=96) from 5(=10), which will then equal 86. So 7=86.

    So in conclucion 9(63)+7(86)=149.

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  7. SAW: LOL, yeah... that's what I thought too.

    Vivek: Haha... I don't really like doctors that much, having one as a bf will be very hypocritical!

    Jai: I see... I take FF because that's the only thing that doesn't make me fall asleep.

    Saby: Thanks...

    nursemyra: I feel better already...

    V: I see... thanks for your explanation... It is very interesting indeed.

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  8. You to with the illness and the doctor stuff.

    So the doc thought you were trying to score pain killers right? unbelievable.

    And I too had that whole never ending cough thing! I thought I was going to die. My entire body hurt from it.

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  9. The mathematical question is about guessing the pattern.

    If we accept the suggested pattern of
    9+7= 9+(12-5)=(63)+(96-10)
    16 =149
    than
    5= (11-9)+(12-9)=(66-63)+(66-3) 5=33

    which is not compatible with the answer given

    5=10

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  10. Ricardo: Yeah... and to think that I only visit the doctor once or twice a year!

    And yeah, you do feel like you're gonna die.

    Jai: Yes, I agree with you on that one... I know for a fact that I was searching for a pattern when I was doing it... and even when I tried working backwards with 149, I could never get the answer, which is why I asked V to explain how he derived his answer, which he did...

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  11. o dear ! hope you are feeling brighter now after the visit to the doc's . Take care yeah !

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  12. I'm better now... thanks :)

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