sick

First, I must say that this is indeed a very bad time to be sick and NOT go to school. Especially, on a friday, with basketball SA [not that i care. i wouldn't have taken pe even if i went to sch], english SA and physics EOI, and CIP.

I will have to take the english sa and physics eoi after school or something. and take cip on another day.

questions i have in mind now.
- anyone else absent? [i seriously doubt so. why be absent on a day that is so...impt!!!!!]
- how long are the eng sa and the physics eoi? [so i can set a time with ms linn and mr. tan respectively. obviously not very nice.]
- anyone is taking cip on another day from our class?
- any homework? [only for history i guess, since it's the only exam-free lesson. only good thing about friday is that it's mostly exams and u noe u are not missing much lessons.]
- as for pe, who hasn't taken the basketball sa? im sure there's some ppl who are sick or something. and with mr. chee's favourite lectures, i believe not many people are assessed in the end.

All right. to real business. basically now i am sniffing and coughing like mad -partially due to the cold rainy weather- and also having weird temperatures that fluctuate up and down whenever my medication takes effect and it's time for yet another dose of it.

Let's go back to thursday night. it's been another normal night for me, with my fever and cough -yes it is normal for the past at least 10 days- and i couldn't really concentrate on studying for physics. so i studied for a while, and fiddled with rs, and then went to sleep, thinking i will study more physics b4 school the next day. i OBVIOUSLY have to go. or else i will miss two tests. i will NEVER miss them for anything.

of course, except for parents. just so happens that on thursday i feel worse than usual, and my temperature soared to 39.2 degrees celsius. it's fine for me, i can simply go to sleep and wake up the next day and go school lah, but NO. to my mum it's as though i am being fried in the oven.

she start to fret. i tell her i had fever about 11 days ago, on my birthday 17th july, yes and it continued for a while and i recovered from it for a few days b4 having it again somewhere on the day b4. and im fine, really a sleep will be fine. and i was so sleepy, since i was sick and needed rest and all. mind you i took plenty of nap earlier on that day, and skipped french -for the FIRST TIME!!!!!- bcos i wanted to go home and sleep. -sobs-

apparently my fever always escalates whenever i take naps. yes and i feel all feverish and i wanted to sleep. but no my mum refused to let me sleep. at approximately 10.30pm, at which i should have been at dreamland because of my sick state, she places a cold pad on my forehead. and it's juz like putting ice on ur head. and it's so cold that after a minute or so i push it off.

it makes my whole head ACHE with coldddddness, freezing cold, and also numbbbbb. it's horrible. then my mum refused to turn off the lights, bcos she claims that she shall call my father who is out for dinner to bring me to the hospital. she went on and on nagging about how long my fever and sickness has been going on, and it will fryyyyyyy my brain alive, and demand that i shall NOT go to school -to which i wince in fear and argue that there are tests!-.

and my mum pounces on it and goes AHA! ok she didn't but she says all the more i should rest and not fry my brain further or something like that. i was so upset and just wanted to sleeppppp. couldn't they leave a poor sick one to rest! and after several more doses of head-numbing and aching cold pads, with the lights still on, i couldn't sleep. and finally my mum got rid of the cold pads and used my face-towel.

it's much better, cooling but not too cold. basically my mum got me to change into some clothes and started packing my water bottle and a jacket in case i felt cold and stuff like that. oh and my previous medications. she is practically positive that i have some unknown germ in my lungs and stomach that is causing this unceasing fever and cough, as well as a full stomach everytime i eat something.

yes i feel extremely full when i eat anything. and feel like vomiting, esp after coughing very hard. and slightly breathless and my lungs are practically bursting. -dies- and my father decides it's pneumonia, while my mum thinks it's dengue fever. though i don't have the rashes. i have plenty of mosquito bites though. i have very sweet and attractive blood.

basically at around 11 plus i get sent off in my father's car to NUH, and eventually to children's emergency. i had to wear this mask. by then my temperature has dropped to 37.4, which is what i predicted would happen had they left me sleeping in my comfortable bed at homeee. they should have at least sent me on saturday, with all the tests overrrrrrrr!

my mum was nagging about how it will become worse and i will have to be admitted to hospital, and get showered in COLD FREEZING WATER. and how bad it will be. she loves exaggerating. she was exaggerating to my dad about how my eyes fall upwards and my face is very pale and my lips are very red. =.="

and i went to the fever facility, where i took my weight and it's 43.5kg! i guess it's bad bcos it means that my muscles are losing weight. nvm but they took my blood pressure and stuff like that, then left me trying to sleep in that uncomfortable chair.

it's straight-backed, so i can't get comfortable lying down. so i leaned to one side, and the other, but the mask is very annoying, and it's extremely hot breathing up ur spectacles all the time due to the mask. it's just like the mask is trapping all the heat around my mouth and nose. GAH.

anyway i tried to sleep, and spent a longg time there, watching some other little girl sleeping on a nice comfortable bed, with her mother patting her and her father reading some book by the side. my parents were walking around the place and standing around my booth. yes there are like booths with a wall separating different booths, and mine is no. 11. yah and there's this biohazard bin and a cleaner came around in a mask and gloves and tongs picking up litter and throwing them away into a yellow bag. and stuff like that.

basically the nurses there are pretty nice, and they are rather friendly. but i waited, and waited, and waited in that stifling mask and the air-con that is not very nice and the chair that is uncomfortable, until around 1am. finally a doctor came. it's a female! i don't like male ones anyway. she's doctor ng and very nice. and she asked me and my parents about my condition, and we juz told her lah, and showed her my medication and stuff like that.

then she checked my heartbeat and lungs and breathing and stuff like that, and asked me about my coughing and my fever and about how i feel very full after eating just a little food. although i was very hungry b4 eating, the sighting of food and eating it makes me feel bloateddd. and water, too.

anyway, she asked me to take a blood test and a x-ray to check for any germs or viruses that is in me. yah so eventually i am given this cup that says "SPECIMEN" on it and my mum says it's to take my urine sample. =.="

i never took urine samples b4 and i am disgusted with the idea. bcos i didn't want to dirty myself or my fingers with my urine, but it couldn't be helped. just so happens i felt urgent. it turned out fine, and i didn't dirty myself. -beams- success! then had to change into some weird robe and took the x-ray. then after going back to sleep -or trying to go back to sleep- i had to take the blood test. i was happy bcos it's what i have been waiting for!

i am familiar with blood tests and are not afraid of them, and so im happy. and the nurse was nice and treated me as though im a kid afraid of injections -heh im not- and she took the injection, and i was looking at it. it was sooooo cool. i didn't feel scared. weird. i used to feel scared. and it was painful, but i didn't wince either. and then she pulled the needle out of my flesh, and put this cotton over it and asked me to hold it, and i did. it felt better than the initial injection, which hurts the most. and then she put the plaster over it. and she was shaking my blood sample, probably to get it mixed or something. heehee.

something like using the microtubes and stuff in bio.

and while i was stoning on the chair i was thinking about physics stuff. gamma rays are shortest and the whole order to radiowaves. to think of it, i have to find mr. tan to do the eoi. i hateeeee making up for stuff. esp alone. bcos i don't like to. humph.

anyway, by that time it's around 2plus, and i went to my car to sleep, it's more comfortable bcos i could lie flat on the back seats, and waited for the x-ray and blood test results. eventually my father got my medicine, and the results, and a MC that declares me unfit for 5 days, until tuesday. and since it's alrd 3am when i reached home, it seems quite impossible for me to go to school on friday.

once i reached home i plopped onto bed and went to sleep. of course not b4 my mum giving my medicine. then i had a heavenly sleep that is dreamless until 8am my mum woke me up for another dose of medication, and at 9am again. it's sooo irritating when i want to sleep. but my poor mum and dad, they slept later than me but woke earlier than me. and my dad called the school or something. i couldn't be bothered. sleep was best.

for almost the whole day i slept. although there were homework i could do. but basically i was too tired. or it was simply comfortable lying like that. and i just fell asleep. haha and i read my book at night. and then went to sleep. although i felt very hungry. sleep is the best bcos u don't feel hungry. my parents give me food in small portions so i won't feel too bloated and full. and now i feel hungry all the time until i get to eat food.

sigh. i think flu is catching up with me. i hope i can go to school on monday and recover by then, but my mc is until tuesday...