The Germs Attack

Personal Diary Entry

Word of caution: This might bore your pants off as it is just a form of expression one does when she loses her voice and is too sick to talk to anyone. :( Please don't bother to read and waste your time unless you have all the time in the world and nothing better to do than stop by here.

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Hello whoever you are who is reading this, meaning you purposely chose to ignore my warning above. Be prepared to be BORED!

I have sort of admitted defeat to the stupid viral attack on my body. Today, the antibodies went on STRIKE and declared themselves losers to the battle within my body.

So here I am, totally voiceless, with fever, a very swollen throat that kept me awake the whole of last night(due to inability to swallow or breathe properly =.=|||). AND my left ear emits this weird buzzing sound. Anyway, I took ML and went to see a doctor today.

Karen told me via text that she suspects we have the same sickness as we traveled together. I told her I begged to differ as hers make her throw up violently(after consuming some strong antibiotic) and she has loads of phlegm purportedly in her erm...lungs.

Well, somehow with a lot of sign language(pretty impressive herh) I managed to convey my symptoms to the doctor. It went something like this:

Doc: Hello, so what's wrong with you today?
Me: *points at throat and flips hand around few times.
Doc: "Ah, I see you have no voice."
Me: (*thinks it is kind of obvious, mimes around at forehead, chest and nose)
Doc: So let me ask you questions and you just nod k. I think you have in short, a normal flu and fever with blocked nose, chills, coughing and lots of green phlegm. What? No phlegm yet? Well, it will come out and you will feel much better.
What? So you could not breathe properly last night and it kept you awake.

*Does normal procedure of looking at throat,listening to my breathing via the stethoscope, measuring of blood pressure and etc.And I'm done there.

Friends accompanying me mentioned that the amount of medicine I'm to consume looks like Kacang puteh. Five types of med in total to be taken 3 times a day. I might go mad soon!

So fine, I'm taking my medication properly and apparently my buzzing ear is caused by my hardened wax buildup(not a lot) around my ear drum. For those who don't know. Yes, it is impossible for me to clean my ear unless I go for a really strenuous swim coz apparently my wax is the hard and totally dry type, not the soft type that you can clean yourself. Errrr...the solution now is to drop wax solvent 3 times a day(how am I going to do this at work I dunno) and get it cleaned end of this week. OKAY ENOUGH OF DISGUSTING INFO.

I am coughing my lungs out now and the phlegm is still inside. Refuses to budge. And sneezing violently and frequently makes the situation worse. I'm very sleepy after all the "kacang puteh" and I can't talk. This is soo frustrating!

Spent the evening sleeping or texting my colleagues. They all are really nice and "layan" me lorh. Hmmm~ I have this feeling that office atmosphere today will be summed up as "pin drop silence". Coz the only people who ever provoke noise or voluntarily talk all the time are Mum, who is no longer in office(*I nearly put the phrase "no longer around" but thought it ghastly out of place, hahaha ), Karen and me.

Anyway, the thing is, Zoe took my advice very very seriously. And she went out to get disinfectant solution the very minute she got my text. As far as I'm concerned, they have erm...disinfected ALL surfaces in the office except Mr L's table. Hopefully I won't spread my virus to any of them tomorrow.

I am suffering here with a burning throat! But drinking or gurgling with salt solution always makes me want to vomit okay. So don't ask me to do that. To be honest, I thought it very brave and sensible of me yesterday night, coz I actually took the initiative to drink bitter Tea(Wong Lou Kat) WITH added powder and stuff okay. It cost me a freaking RM5 and did it work? Well, the above entry could tell you the answer. I have ALREADY been drinking bitter tea every day since last week to combat this heatiness in my body but I see the situation was out of hand and I was merely fighting a losing battle. :(

But I believe God wanted me to take this opportunity to rest. So I shall be good and go to bed now. Oh, yes, I must add here that I had a very very nice dinner of fresh and yummy buns from the Berry's bakery which has been my favorite bakery since...errr...actually, 2010 only la. Haha. Yes, I am starting to stop crap now so I gotta stop for my own good. Good night to whoever is reading this.