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Ha ha haaaa... Ah I do so love my luck. So, you know how I've been coughing lately... Well. Last night, I literally could NOT BREATHE when I was trying to sleep. Like, at all. I'd try to breathe, and I would just end up hacking, trying to clear up my lungs... So I call Cowell, the health center, and make an appointment. Later, I go into Cowell and I'm like, I've had this cough for a while, I think because I'm allergic to my cat, and it might be bronchitis. I just want you to check it out. So the doctor's like, okay, let me listen to your chest. She holds the stethoscope and says breathe in. So I do, and it wheezes like normal, and she's like, oh God. So she does that all over my chest and back, all the while saying oh God, poor baby, etc. etc. So I'm like, great, I'm dying of the black lung or something. Then she's like, okay, I have to get you on treatment RIGHTNOW. Then she brings in these charts and says, here are normal bronchial tubes in your lung (they are fully open and beautiful and pink, etc. etc.), here are bronchial tubes when someone has bronchitis, etc. etc. She gets to the last one and is like, and here are YOUR tubes. They are completely closed, with just barely enough space for some nasty-looking green mucus to drip out of the cross-section. So that was lovely. Anyway, then she made me put this thing which was hooked up to this giant oxygen tank into my mouth and breathe; supposedly it was oxygen with medication in it to make my tubes open up. Soooo I was on that for a while. Then she comes back in, and was like, well, I was going to put you on two inhalers, but one wouldn't be strong enough, so I'm going to have to give you pills instead. So she gave me pills, an inhaler, cough medicine, and nasal spray. The best part was, she was explaining the side effects for the prednisone I had to take. Some were like, you may feel hungry, you could get lightheaded. I'm thinking, this doesn't sound too bad. Then, Oh, also, this is very rare, I've only seen it once before, but there also could be some extreme paranoia and anxiety. Great. That would be awesome. So yeah, that was a great part of my day. Oh well.
The first day back wasn't too bad. My Hist. 84 prof seems really cool. She's this hilarious ultra-feminist woman, but she is really chill, and seems funny and nice. And she seems to love history. Seeing as I'm a huge history nerd, I am pretty sure I will enjoy that class. My stats class seems like it will be boring, but my prof in that class seems really cool as well. I had a class right after his last quarter, so I always talked to him, but I never knew who he was. He's super nice, and funny. It should be interesting. My research methods class mostly consisted of the prof trying to decide who to keep in the class; she felt bad turning away add-ins. I was like, just do it! They're not enrolled, don't feel bad. But still, she felt "traumatized" by the experience, and "was frazzled, and unable to get her mind together" for the 15 whole minutes that were left of the class after the whole debacle. That was pretty much my day. I hope everyone had as great a day as me :) Hopefully tonight I will actually be able to breathe, 'cause the doctor told me if I have problems again, I need to go to the emergency room. I'm supposed to go in and see her again tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. I have to go do some reading for Women's History now. I have an insane amount already. Oh well... Arrivederci
The first day back wasn't too bad. My Hist. 84 prof seems really cool. She's this hilarious ultra-feminist woman, but she is really chill, and seems funny and nice. And she seems to love history. Seeing as I'm a huge history nerd, I am pretty sure I will enjoy that class. My stats class seems like it will be boring, but my prof in that class seems really cool as well. I had a class right after his last quarter, so I always talked to him, but I never knew who he was. He's super nice, and funny. It should be interesting. My research methods class mostly consisted of the prof trying to decide who to keep in the class; she felt bad turning away add-ins. I was like, just do it! They're not enrolled, don't feel bad. But still, she felt "traumatized" by the experience, and "was frazzled, and unable to get her mind together" for the 15 whole minutes that were left of the class after the whole debacle. That was pretty much my day. I hope everyone had as great a day as me :) Hopefully tonight I will actually be able to breathe, 'cause the doctor told me if I have problems again, I need to go to the emergency room. I'm supposed to go in and see her again tomorrow, so we'll see how that goes. I have to go do some reading for Women's History now. I have an insane amount already. Oh well... Arrivederci