But now that I have my own laptop again, I can update this blog regularly and get back to my writing again. There would be no excuse anymore! :D I can also devote time in making a new header/banner for JMF for our third anniversary this September. And I can spend a lot of time on PEX now.
A lot of things happened to me just last month (only one month after vacation) so I am going to tell it all here. But I am doing it in three parts because I think it would be one very long post.
Since it's summer here, the weather is very hot and dry so as usual my ear infection strikes again. It started very itchy and I had to scratch it with cotton buds, even though I know very well that it would lead to swelling of my ear canal, buzzing or no hearing at all, pain each time I swallow or open my mouth and discharges that caused itchiness inside my ear (so I had to scratch it with a tissue paper again.)
This happened on the last week of July so I was absent from work again and started on Saturday night. I had fever this time so I only slept most of the time while at home on Sunday. On Monday, it's still swelling so I went to the clinic near our place.
While I was inside the doctor's office, I enumerated to her what lead to my ear swelling. So she told me, it's an ear infection. (Of course!) And so she already clicked something on her computer and then I was out after a minute or two. When I went to the pharmacy to get my free medicines, I was told by the pharmacist to go back to the doctor. And so I went!
And the unbelievable thing happened again. The doctor told me that she's changing my diagnosis from ear infection to Mumps!!! And I was like, oh no, not again.
You see, every year I have this ear infection. The first time I had it, I went to KAC clinic and the doctor diagnosed it as mumps also. But I insisted to the doctor that it would be impossible because I already had it when I was young. But the doctor said that it's possible to have mumps again. And he referred me to the Infectious diseases section of the public hospital here. And it was very far. When I arrived in the hospital, they took some blood from me for the test and i waited there for more than an hour (while feeling sick) and the result was negative. OF COURSE! So, the doctor gave me 5 days sick leave then.
When I went home last 2004, I had ear infection while in the Philippines so I referred it to an ENT doctor there and he didn't see anything wrong inside of my ear. Rather, only the ear canal is infected and he said that it's expected if I am living in a dry, humid and hot climate.
So from then on, each time I feel the ear infection coming, I'd just take antibiotics (which were given to us by our nurse friends).
History repeated itself. LOL! I again insisted to the doctor that I already had mumps and that's what happened last time too. But she's adamant that I should go to Alsabah hospital - infectious diseases for the test.
Since I was not feeling very well coz the pain in my ear was strong, I did not go to the hospital at all. Instead, I took Ibuprofen and antibiotics, and spent the next day sleeping. When I woke up, I was sweating profusely. I even removed my pajamas and had to put on the electric fan even though our flat has centralized A/C. Only then I realized that it was my fever breaking out. Then with the continous intake of Ibuprofen and antibiotics, my ear infection was gone.
So I was absent for four days again and I didn't have a sick leave form coz I didn't go to the hospital. Which means, another deduction from next month's salary!
That's the end of part 1.
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