This Week's Event for Future References

I have Tue-Thu training.

Started having sore throat on Tue. No coughing or flu... just sore throat.

Get's worse on Wed so went to clinic Wed nite. Started coughing and asthma. Also feeling feverish. Given neb and a plastic bag full of medication: cough medicine, gargle solution, antibiotics, something to clear the phlegm, pill for asthma and something for the sore throat.

Thu, my participants said I sounded better. I hesitated a bit when I wanted to take the antibiotics. I could get allergy reactions and Thu class would be a disaster. I took them anyway and pray for the best. Thu class ended up a near disaster anyway coz my laptop crashed. Refused to boot up. Thank God someone from office has a laptop I can borrow. But he has to make a u-turn to office and get his laptop. I really appreciate it.

Thu evening, I started to feel a familiar sensation. An allergic reaction is forming. Only after 3 times taking the antibiotics. At the end of class, I started feeling nauseous. My tummy felt like it's having a major gastric problem. When I reached home, I dozed off for a while. Just for about half an hour when I woke up feeling my eyes swollen. Rushed to the same clinic. Gotten neb and pred injection. Felt much better afterwards. Hubby's not around tonight.

Woke up at 3 badly wheezing. Toss and turn and pour dollops of ginger lotion on chest. Doesn't seem to work. Drag myself to the car at 4 a.m. When to the same clinic but it was closed. Oh oh... not 24 hours. So drove off to the hospital. At this hour, I hope there's a parking spot. Given neb and more medication since I register temperature at 39.5. They were discussing about what to give me since I'm allergic to so many medications. I hope no more allregic reactions after this.

Return home at almost 6 a.m. For breakfast, couldn't bring myself to eat much. Every bite of bread, have to control myself from vomitting. In the end, just took a few bites. Ordered McD porridge in the afternoon. Managed to eat half of the small pack and took the medicines given by hospital. Dozed off for a while and woke up with swollen eyes again. Sigh! Dragged myself to the car at 2p.m. and prayed I could get a parking spot since most would have not returned from Friday prayers yet. Managed to park at the same spot when I came at 4 this morning. Thank God for tender mercies.

This time, after initial check up, I was brought to a bed and given neb. So many people... nurses, attendant, doctors, asking me what happened. So difficult to explain in between wheezing and plastic covering my nose and mouth. My hearing doesn't work properly too. I heard as if the sound is in a cave. When the nurse asked me to move to the side, I turned my body. All this while, when I went to the clinic for allergic reaction, the doctor will jab the butt. Not this time though. They wanted to put me on drip. Apprently my BP was very low. This is my first experience going through something like this. Alhamdulillah I have never been warded my whole life. The earliest I could remember was when I had a fever in primary school. The government clinic put me under observation. I just lie in bed with my parents hovering around me and all felt a sense of relief after a few hours my temperature cooled down. When I had my miscarriage, almost warded too but in the end it was cancelled.

This time, I was given 3 doses of neb and in between they did a heart test, urine test to check if I'm pregnant cause they wanted to take X-Ray, blood samples taken from my other hand. Ouch!!! I was wheeled to the toilet on a wheelchair. I was wheeled to the X-Ray room on my bed. The nurse is very helpful and non-intrusive. She helped me take off my jewelleries and undress. Helped me to dress again after the X-Ray since my left arm is attached to the drip bottle. Two doctors came to ask about my allergies. My allergy card is full with more names. Please pray I don't have to undergo any surgery since I can't take most painkillers and antibiotics.

Hubby returned with the whole clan. Meriah sikit and I did feel a lot better. But that night I tossed and turned till about 3 because of coughing. Despite dose and dose of medication, this time sleep is really a luxury. They left Sat afternoon. I wish they could stay till Sun morning but I'm sure they have other things to take care off.

Left alone, I used iPod hubby gave me to find info on how to restore my laptop to factory setting. Nothing else seems to work. This is the last resort. Hubby helped transfer my latest file to his external hard disk already. I remember I've made backup as well ever since my laptop started to act funny. Probably about a month ago but I wasn't sure of the exact date. Without another laptop, I can't check content of my external hard disk. Thanks for the iPod abang. That is my lifeline to email, FB and internet since my laptop crashed on Thu.

I'm going to install only the important applications. After I did my Windows Update, remove McAfee and install AVG, my laptop shutdown unexpectedly again. Duh! I ran AVG PC Tuneup hoping it would fix whatever errors causing it to shutdown unexpectedly. Hubby already cursed my OS :) Say NO to Vista! In between coughing and holding up my bruised ribcage and diaphragm, I installed all the application I need one by one. After every successful installation, I ran the AVG PC Tuneup. And everytime it found errors. But so far no more unexplained shutdown. I can use the AVG PC Tuneup for free only for 24 hours.

This cough is really killing me. I woke up like every hour doubling up in pain everytime I coughed. At first, I thought not wanting to take the cough syrup. Seems like I excreted more phlegm after taking it. But without the cough syrup, the phlegm seems to be playing in my chest, can't get out causing me to cough even more. So cough syrup it is.

I'm supposed to go to class today. I have to give a presentation worth 30% of my course marks. But I don't think I can stand the coughing and wheezing. It'll be a vey long day. I'm currently blogging while moaning and groaning everytime I coughed. Might as well do something useful since I can't sleep.