…oh, sorry, that’s someone else.
I’m heading to the student health clinic in an hour. I honestly can’t believe that I got an appt. today, much less a convenient one.
My throat started aching a little bit a few days ago. I assumed it was just my year-round seasonal allergies that are, of course, a bit worse in spring. Beautiful things flowering, me stopping to smell the flowers (literally), starting running again, sleeping with the windows open, actually spending some time in my dusty apt., and so on. But it has been getting worse and today it really hurts and is constricting making it hard to swallow.
I called about 10:50 AM and got an appt. for 12:15 PM. Quite unbelievable really. Then again it is the last day of finals and people are more worried about leaving town or graduating than they are about going to the clinic I imagine. Have to work at 2 PM so the timing is great!
So here’s hoping it’s just allergies….
Update: The Wiz says my throat looks OK, but she did a complete culture anyway as there are several things going around. I get to call the clinic tomorrow AM to find out the results. In the meantime, the lozenges she gave me help a little. And according to her we’re having a nasty spring allergy-wise this year. Here’s hoping…but it still hurts.
Update 2: My results never got posted to the phone message so I had to call the Dial-A-Nurse. After discussing my new symptoms she decided I needed to come to the Acute Care Clinic today and get seen again. This doctor decided I have an infection in my right ear (rare for people in my age group, he says) and gave me an antibiotic.
So I hope I haven’t been infecting people with something they haven’t diagnosed yet, and I hope I’m healthy enough come Monday to start my 2-week class; that is, that I don’t get worse.
