If I have symptoms -- any symptoms at all -- I like to use WebMD's Symptom Checker to figure out what horrible ill[nesse]s may have befalled me.
For one thing, clicking on the body parts and scrolling through every possible thing that could be wrong with each one is just fun. As a self-described hypochondriac, I naturally begin to imagine that, yes, yes, I do think that could possibly be a bald spot on my head.
But doctors hate self-diagnosers, right? I can imagine the sighs and rolled eyes when they see lists of diseases procured from the WebMD Syptom Checker.
Today's symptoms are dizziness and a slightly nauseated feeling. That's all. No headache. No fever. No vomiting. I don't want to go to the clinic on our grounds, or even a hospital, because doctors here do only two things: 1) neglect to listen to what you're telling them and 2) prescribe an antibiotic, along with three or four other medications.
WebMD suggests 20 possible conditions, including Meniere's disease, acute kidney failure, Botox injection, and esophagitis.
What should I do now?
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Sunday, March 7, 2010
Thursday, February 4, 2010
quarantine
Classes were canceled yesterday, today, and tomorrow due to H1N1. And foot and mouth disease. Foot. And. Mouth. One of my P.4 students had it!
When I found out, I busted out the antibacterial foam and doused my desk, phone, writing utensils, and anything else that I may have possibly touched after touching something my students may have possibly touched.
We've had to come to work while the students wallow in their germs and play video games for three days.
On Wednesday, we purged the office of ancient stacks of papers, crusty notebooks, and general clutter. We even dusted! With the seven of us working, we finished up around 11:30 and spent the next five hours reading, asking trivia questions, and joking around.
There was a possibility, we were told on Tuesday, that we wouldn't have to come at all Thursday and Friday. The odds were against us, I guess. Yesterday at 4:00, the Thai teachers all gave us a cheery, "See you tomorrow."
To spite them, we decided to have a movie day in the computer lab on Thursday. We watched three hours of the TV show Glee, took a lunch break, and then watched another two and a half hours.
Tomorrow: same song, second verse.
When I found out, I busted out the antibacterial foam and doused my desk, phone, writing utensils, and anything else that I may have possibly touched after touching something my students may have possibly touched.
We've had to come to work while the students wallow in their germs and play video games for three days.
On Wednesday, we purged the office of ancient stacks of papers, crusty notebooks, and general clutter. We even dusted! With the seven of us working, we finished up around 11:30 and spent the next five hours reading, asking trivia questions, and joking around.
There was a possibility, we were told on Tuesday, that we wouldn't have to come at all Thursday and Friday. The odds were against us, I guess. Yesterday at 4:00, the Thai teachers all gave us a cheery, "See you tomorrow."
To spite them, we decided to have a movie day in the computer lab on Thursday. We watched three hours of the TV show Glee, took a lunch break, and then watched another two and a half hours.
Tomorrow: same song, second verse.
Sunday, June 21, 2009
christ church
I think Mariela and I will stick with Christ Church. She's figured out the right buses to ride so that we don't get stuck walking for an hour in the heat to get home every week.
Since our first Sunday morning there, we've learned that you shouldn't always wait for a free bus. They don't come frequently enough, and the next level of bus only costs 6.50, which is about 20 cents. We took non-air con bus 77 home today, and we were the only farangs on the thing. I really enjoy riding the bus, actually. It makes me feel less like an outsider and more like someone who lives here.
I think I've adjusted.
Tonight, I sat on my balcony toward dusk reading The Brothers Karamazov and eating rambutan. It was breezy and cool and I looked up at the sky and out over the trees and rusty corrugated metal rooftops below and sighed. Contentment is certainly a good feeling.
Sometimes I forget I'm here, though. Yesterday I stayed in bed because I have a cold. I must confess that I spent nearly the entire day looking at wedding Web sites. With Mariela talking about getting her dress made here, it's impossible not to catch wedding fever.
Anyway, last night I was lying in bed, thinking about wedding dresses. I got the urge to go to my mom's closet and put on my huge, white, poofy gown from floorshow my senior year of high school, and then I remembered that I was in Thailand.
Since our first Sunday morning there, we've learned that you shouldn't always wait for a free bus. They don't come frequently enough, and the next level of bus only costs 6.50, which is about 20 cents. We took non-air con bus 77 home today, and we were the only farangs on the thing. I really enjoy riding the bus, actually. It makes me feel less like an outsider and more like someone who lives here.
I think I've adjusted.
Tonight, I sat on my balcony toward dusk reading The Brothers Karamazov and eating rambutan. It was breezy and cool and I looked up at the sky and out over the trees and rusty corrugated metal rooftops below and sighed. Contentment is certainly a good feeling.
Sometimes I forget I'm here, though. Yesterday I stayed in bed because I have a cold. I must confess that I spent nearly the entire day looking at wedding Web sites. With Mariela talking about getting her dress made here, it's impossible not to catch wedding fever.
Anyway, last night I was lying in bed, thinking about wedding dresses. I got the urge to go to my mom's closet and put on my huge, white, poofy gown from floorshow my senior year of high school, and then I remembered that I was in Thailand.
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