stupid ear :-X
My ear is broken. I shall explain...
This past weekend I had finished eating Dairy Queen (for the first time in literally months, so I was really excited) and all of us a sudden the room started spinning and I got sick and threw it all up. I thought the staff at DQ had poisoned me. I should have known that was not the case.
SO...anyhow, a few days later (today), I am sitting in pre-lab getting ready for a slideshow about the derivatives of carboxylic acids to begin and the room starts spinning again! I felt like i was strapped to one of those giant spin the wheel for a prize things and someone was turning me and turning me. So I go up to my TA Marvin (a crazy california grad student), and I say
Me- "Marvin...the room is spinning and I think i'm going to throw up"
Marvin- "What, *serious look* do you do drugs? Are you high?"
Me- pointing to pig tails, please, look at me, i've never done drugs in my life!
Marvin- ok, go to the health center and sign up for make-up lab
I go to Beutel and they take me to "imminent care" which is their mini ER or whatever. I get seen before anyone else and after his exam he says..umm, well, i'm not seeing anything bad, let me send you down for some lab work. I go down to the lab and this crazy lady uses a giant needle (i volunteer at the hospital and they use way smaller ones for good veins like mine :-/) to take out two vials of blood, then they do some weird tests that take for-ev-er (they literally had three people go after me and had their results done before I got mine). Something about a blood clotting something or another test. At this point i'm thinking that i'm dying and that i only have moments to live and that i should write a note to everyone on my body with a permanent marker, when lo and behold the lab tech gives me a slip to take to my Dr.
Paranoid, I go back upstairs to find the doctor and they tell me he's gone to SBISA (one of the dining halls) for lunch and that he'll be back "soon". Yeah right. So another 20 mins later he comes back and tells me that I have fluid and pressure something or another in my ear causing VERTIGO, by far the worst feeling i've ever felt. Then he gives me a prescription and tells me to go to the pharmacy.
I go to the pharmacy and give them my script and sit there and wait. They call my name to go into a 2 x 3 booth and they say "brandie anderson to booth one"...oh, btw, this "waiting area" is like 8 x 9 at the most. So I laugh to myself at their stupidity and how ridiculous having a mic system in such a small area is and go in the booth and she shows me the pills. Holy freakin cow. One of them is HUUUGEmongous. It's an 800 mg of Ibuprofen for "anti-inflammatory purposes". Hrm...maybe it will make me skinnier for weigh in on Thursday *hopes*.
Theeeennnnn, I go to pay, and the crazy dr didn't tell me that the lab tests cost money. rat bastard. I ended up paying like 54 bucks for all of it, totally not expecting that.
Whoa...starting to write like Erica here ;-)...I better go before this turns into a novel ;-) ;-)
Love ya,
Branderson
Oh, P.S. Tonight I got four-wayed by some friends from back in the day and it was really fun to catch up and what not :-D
This past weekend I had finished eating Dairy Queen (for the first time in literally months, so I was really excited) and all of us a sudden the room started spinning and I got sick and threw it all up. I thought the staff at DQ had poisoned me. I should have known that was not the case.
SO...anyhow, a few days later (today), I am sitting in pre-lab getting ready for a slideshow about the derivatives of carboxylic acids to begin and the room starts spinning again! I felt like i was strapped to one of those giant spin the wheel for a prize things and someone was turning me and turning me. So I go up to my TA Marvin (a crazy california grad student), and I say
Me- "Marvin...the room is spinning and I think i'm going to throw up"
Marvin- "What, *serious look* do you do drugs? Are you high?"
Me- pointing to pig tails, please, look at me, i've never done drugs in my life!
Marvin- ok, go to the health center and sign up for make-up lab
I go to Beutel and they take me to "imminent care" which is their mini ER or whatever. I get seen before anyone else and after his exam he says..umm, well, i'm not seeing anything bad, let me send you down for some lab work. I go down to the lab and this crazy lady uses a giant needle (i volunteer at the hospital and they use way smaller ones for good veins like mine :-/) to take out two vials of blood, then they do some weird tests that take for-ev-er (they literally had three people go after me and had their results done before I got mine). Something about a blood clotting something or another test. At this point i'm thinking that i'm dying and that i only have moments to live and that i should write a note to everyone on my body with a permanent marker, when lo and behold the lab tech gives me a slip to take to my Dr.
Paranoid, I go back upstairs to find the doctor and they tell me he's gone to SBISA (one of the dining halls) for lunch and that he'll be back "soon". Yeah right. So another 20 mins later he comes back and tells me that I have fluid and pressure something or another in my ear causing VERTIGO, by far the worst feeling i've ever felt. Then he gives me a prescription and tells me to go to the pharmacy.
I go to the pharmacy and give them my script and sit there and wait. They call my name to go into a 2 x 3 booth and they say "brandie anderson to booth one"...oh, btw, this "waiting area" is like 8 x 9 at the most. So I laugh to myself at their stupidity and how ridiculous having a mic system in such a small area is and go in the booth and she shows me the pills. Holy freakin cow. One of them is HUUUGEmongous. It's an 800 mg of Ibuprofen for "anti-inflammatory purposes". Hrm...maybe it will make me skinnier for weigh in on Thursday *hopes*.
Theeeennnnn, I go to pay, and the crazy dr didn't tell me that the lab tests cost money. rat bastard. I ended up paying like 54 bucks for all of it, totally not expecting that.
Whoa...starting to write like Erica here ;-)...I better go before this turns into a novel ;-) ;-)
Love ya,
Branderson
Oh, P.S. Tonight I got four-wayed by some friends from back in the day and it was really fun to catch up and what not :-D