red spots and polka dots
i've got the rashes! food allergy of some sort, i have no idea what defiled thing i ate though, nothing special to note.
4 days outpatient leave is many days. i'll be going to air wing on a thursday night 8pm. i hate it when i start on the wrong foot, or a foot late. it makes me feel uneasy to miss something everyone else is attending. not to mention i will have catching up to do, oh catching up i hate that too. it reminds me, though, of the 5 months i spent brushing up on my academics before it was too late, those 5 months were intense, and i came out feeling oh so proud i made it out alive in one piece, with good grades too heh.
yesterday's encounter with the doctor is one i cannot forget. i got pricked a total of 8 times. the young male doctor was trying to find my thin vein amidst red rashes, he tried 6 times in vain (vein haha, not funny). he switched hands, left to right and back again countless times, and pricking positions. i never knew you could draw blood from the opposite side of the palm and at the side of the wrist. which meant i had to watch and go through 6 cycles of him slapping my skin to make the vein surface, and then poking me, finally shifting the needle about nervously (under my skin) trying to find the elusive vein. i will always remember when i glanced at him, he would shake his head subtly, as if trying to tell me this was another failed attempt. yes and 6 failed attempts it was. until eventually on the 7th, he found blood, but not plenty. so he used that hole to inject the medication. then came the 8th, which he said was the easiest to carry out, but the most painful. i vaguely recall flinching at that point. he told me he was going to draw blood from the underbelly of my wrist, where the vein was most prominent. it was easy alright, and as painful as it was easy.
nonetheless, my rashes are still here and i hope they go away fast. they look horrible, not to mention the itch which sucks totally.
anyway, i have an interview tomorrow! for the SAF Academic Scholarship (Military). i hope i do well too, God-willing :) i'm preparing for it now.
4 days outpatient leave is many days. i'll be going to air wing on a thursday night 8pm. i hate it when i start on the wrong foot, or a foot late. it makes me feel uneasy to miss something everyone else is attending. not to mention i will have catching up to do, oh catching up i hate that too. it reminds me, though, of the 5 months i spent brushing up on my academics before it was too late, those 5 months were intense, and i came out feeling oh so proud i made it out alive in one piece, with good grades too heh.
yesterday's encounter with the doctor is one i cannot forget. i got pricked a total of 8 times. the young male doctor was trying to find my thin vein amidst red rashes, he tried 6 times in vain (vein haha, not funny). he switched hands, left to right and back again countless times, and pricking positions. i never knew you could draw blood from the opposite side of the palm and at the side of the wrist. which meant i had to watch and go through 6 cycles of him slapping my skin to make the vein surface, and then poking me, finally shifting the needle about nervously (under my skin) trying to find the elusive vein. i will always remember when i glanced at him, he would shake his head subtly, as if trying to tell me this was another failed attempt. yes and 6 failed attempts it was. until eventually on the 7th, he found blood, but not plenty. so he used that hole to inject the medication. then came the 8th, which he said was the easiest to carry out, but the most painful. i vaguely recall flinching at that point. he told me he was going to draw blood from the underbelly of my wrist, where the vein was most prominent. it was easy alright, and as painful as it was easy.
nonetheless, my rashes are still here and i hope they go away fast. they look horrible, not to mention the itch which sucks totally.
anyway, i have an interview tomorrow! for the SAF Academic Scholarship (Military). i hope i do well too, God-willing :) i'm preparing for it now.
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