Ignorence is Bliss???? (Part II)
Woah~ Not to sound like I'm bragging (which I actually am XP) but I just read Part I again (with a clear drug free head) and I think it was pretty good post considering I was still all drugged up and not thinking straight, hence, the weird third person narrative thingy going on. However, I've decided to just continue with that style just cos it'll probably annoy the heck outta all of you XP
So yes, to continue the story, back at her class, Intan was being her not so normal hyper self and being friendly, mucking about and talking to her friends about her ass injection when one of her friends suddenly mentioned that her right eye was red. "Oh not again" she thought. She usually gets these random allergic reactions where one of her eyes would turn red and she'll proceed to start having a sneezing fit and then a runny nose. Okay, they're not really random. She only gets them when she comes into contact with dust and cats. She calls them random because there have been one or two occasions where she just suddenly had them where she was sure that there were no cats or dusts in the area. Hmmm.....apparently she hasn't really figured out ALL the things she's allergic to. Anyways, even before her friend mentioned it, she more or less kinda knew that something was up cos her right eye had been feeling itchy as hell but she (as usual) decided to ignore the feeling and go about her usual business. Then of course the sneezing fit came *sigh* (Intan really wasn't in the mood to deal with one of her allergic reaction episodes. What she wanted was for the day to end as soon as possible so she could go home,go online and spazz about DBSK some more and sleep.)
But then her friend didn't just stop there, after a while she said that the eye wasn't just red but also swollen. Basically, it was beginning to look like I no longer had an eye. Right, now that sent alarm bells ringing in Intan's little head. So she decided to look for a mirror and low and behold, not only was her right eye giving Quasimodo a run for his money but her whole freaking damn face looked a little bit swollen (I used "a little" here cos it was gonna get worse...) Right, this calls for one thing she thought....MUM!!!!
So Intan quickly called up her mum and told her (in polite and calm terms) that she should listen to her beloved daughter and flip off the client she was talking to. Her mother of course proceeded to hang up the phone on her (-_-;;)
Note: Intan has a habit of being overly dramatic when it comes to conversations with her family. Her psychiatrist (should she actually see one) would say that Intan suffers from a case of "attention seeking disorder" centered around her family members and this disorder is commonly mistaken by them as "annoying little brat syndrome".
Anyway, after sulking about for a good 5 minutes, her mother called her back (yay!!). She then proceeded to tell her about what happened including the injection (Actually she just put that in to say that her ass had just been touched by a stranger. Mwuahahah!!) she received from the doctor. When your mother is from the medical background and deals with a lot of clients, she's quite good at obtaining and dissecting every little detail from you to come up with some amazing conclusion as to why her daughter's eye was all swollen up. And what was the conclusion you might ask?
"Intan, I want you to get in the car right now with a friend and go straight back to that clinic cos I think you're having an allergic reaction to the painkiller they gave you" (only with more words and harsher tones being used). Intan of course, being thankful for the painkiller which basically killed off all her pain receptors, said "Mum, it's cool, I think that it's just one of my allergic episode thing..." So the rest of the conversation shouldn't be retold cos it includes a lot of panicking on the mother's part and a lot of rolling eyes on the daughter's part. Yeah well, apparently Intan didn't know that an allergic reaction like this could actually cause death til her mother actually screamed it out in the phone to her (Just so you know, Intan could actually feel the telepathic slap her mother gave her upside the head for not getting in the car right then and there, to head to the clinic....-_-;;)
Okay. So now that she was starting to understand that her mother wasn't just being overly paranoid, she proceeded to get in her car and head back to the clinic (Do you know how weird it is to drive with only one eye open??) This occurred a little over 2 hours after her initial injection. So yes, it was no wonder her mother was pretty hysterical over the phone.
Upon arriving at the clinic, she went straight to the registration counter,(bypassing a poor random sick boy who was probably pissed that she had just cut the line but she gave him a glare with her swollen, red eye/face and therefore good little random boy backed down), showed the nurse her eye and told them that this was an allergic reaction from one their medications, which of course prompted the people there to go into panic mode (Intan loves making a scene at clinics/hospitals XP).
Fortunately for her or for them (whichever you feel sorry for the most) the doctor who tended to Intan before suddenly passed by, so Intan quickly motioned to her, then to her swollen face. The doctor took one look at Intan's face and quickly brought Intan to the medical room and then proceeded to tell her that she was having an allergic reaction to the pain killer given.......
From the look on Intan's face, she reckons that the doctor knew that what she had just told Intan was not only redundant, but it could of possibly been in contention for the Understatement of the Year Award. Thus, the doctor quickly proceeded to get up and take her personally, through the secret back doorways that all clinics and hospitals have (Really, for those of you who didn't know, they have their own secret walkways, which is why you hardly see them walking outside the hallways. This would explain the strange situation where one minute the doc is in and the next he's out to lunch, when the fuck he went out and how, you had no idea considering you were waiting for him right outside his door) and straight to the sick bay area.
In the sick bay area, she was quickly put on a bed, covered in nice blankets and told to wait for a minute where a nurse would tend to her as soon as possible, then had the curtains shut on her. After a couple of minutes of wondering whether they were just going to let her die there, a nurse came in, took out a needle and smiled.
"Like wtf??? Another one?!" Intan thought. Fortunately, much to Intan's relief, the nurse took Intan's arm and rolled up the sleeves. You can tell that for a minute there, she thought by the time this ordeal would finish, she would have mooned the entire clinical staff.
Just before injecting the needle, the nurse quietly told Intan that the anti-allergic medicine would make her a little bit sleepy.......
To make the story short, I woke up on Monday.
The days between that were a blur. I do remember my parents picking me up from the clinic and I do remember eating dinner and more pills. Everytime I ate, there were pills to swallow. Basically, it was a combination of painkillers + anti-allergic ones (which made me sleepy and therefore I slept constantly).
So yes, the moral of this story is that:
1) Take proper care of your back even if you don't have any subsisting injuries.
2) Don't ignore the pain till you can't stand it anymore. It's better that you do something about it then, instead of waiting till the last minute then ask for an injection like moi.
3) Get your ass to a clinic as soon as possible if you think that there's something wrong going on once you've taken any form of medication.
4) Be aware of what medication you are taking just in case you might be allergic to it.
5) Once you find out that you're allergic to it, REMEMBER the name!!
6) Oh and listen to your mother cos she's usually always right.
Note: The painkiller that I was allergic to was Voltaren which is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It's generic name is Diclofenac and is also marketed as the Flector patch, Voltarol, Diclon, Dicloflex Difen, Difene, Cataflam, Pennsaid, Rhumalgan, Modifenac, Abitren, Olfen, Voveran, Arthrotec, Dedolor, Deflamat and Zolterol.
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So yes, to continue the story, back at her class, Intan was being her not so normal hyper self and being friendly, mucking about and talking to her friends about her ass injection when one of her friends suddenly mentioned that her right eye was red. "Oh not again" she thought. She usually gets these random allergic reactions where one of her eyes would turn red and she'll proceed to start having a sneezing fit and then a runny nose. Okay, they're not really random. She only gets them when she comes into contact with dust and cats. She calls them random because there have been one or two occasions where she just suddenly had them where she was sure that there were no cats or dusts in the area. Hmmm.....apparently she hasn't really figured out ALL the things she's allergic to. Anyways, even before her friend mentioned it, she more or less kinda knew that something was up cos her right eye had been feeling itchy as hell but she (as usual) decided to ignore the feeling and go about her usual business. Then of course the sneezing fit came *sigh* (Intan really wasn't in the mood to deal with one of her allergic reaction episodes. What she wanted was for the day to end as soon as possible so she could go home,
But then her friend didn't just stop there, after a while she said that the eye wasn't just red but also swollen. Basically, it was beginning to look like I no longer had an eye. Right, now that sent alarm bells ringing in Intan's little head. So she decided to look for a mirror and low and behold, not only was her right eye giving Quasimodo a run for his money but her whole freaking damn face looked a little bit swollen (I used "a little" here cos it was gonna get worse...) Right, this calls for one thing she thought....MUM!!!!
So Intan quickly called up her mum and told her (in polite and calm terms) that she should listen to her beloved daughter and flip off the client she was talking to. Her mother of course proceeded to hang up the phone on her (-_-;;)
Note: Intan has a habit of being overly dramatic when it comes to conversations with her family. Her psychiatrist (should she actually see one) would say that Intan suffers from a case of "attention seeking disorder" centered around her family members and this disorder is commonly mistaken by them as "annoying little brat syndrome".
Anyway, after sulking about for a good 5 minutes, her mother called her back (yay!!). She then proceeded to tell her about what happened including the injection (Actually she just put that in to say that her ass had just been touched by a stranger. Mwuahahah!!) she received from the doctor. When your mother is from the medical background and deals with a lot of clients, she's quite good at obtaining and dissecting every little detail from you to come up with some amazing conclusion as to why her daughter's eye was all swollen up. And what was the conclusion you might ask?
"Intan, I want you to get in the car right now with a friend and go straight back to that clinic cos I think you're having an allergic reaction to the painkiller they gave you" (only with more words and harsher tones being used). Intan of course, being thankful for the painkiller which basically killed off all her pain receptors, said "Mum, it's cool, I think that it's just one of my allergic episode thing..." So the rest of the conversation shouldn't be retold cos it includes a lot of panicking on the mother's part and a lot of rolling eyes on the daughter's part. Yeah well, apparently Intan didn't know that an allergic reaction like this could actually cause death til her mother actually screamed it out in the phone to her (Just so you know, Intan could actually feel the telepathic slap her mother gave her upside the head for not getting in the car right then and there, to head to the clinic....-_-;;)
Okay. So now that she was starting to understand that her mother wasn't just being overly paranoid, she proceeded to get in her car and head back to the clinic (Do you know how weird it is to drive with only one eye open??) This occurred a little over 2 hours after her initial injection. So yes, it was no wonder her mother was pretty hysterical over the phone.
Upon arriving at the clinic, she went straight to the registration counter,(bypassing a poor random sick boy who was probably pissed that she had just cut the line but she gave him a glare with her swollen, red eye/face and therefore good little random boy backed down), showed the nurse her eye and told them that this was an allergic reaction from one their medications, which of course prompted the people there to go into panic mode (Intan loves making a scene at clinics/hospitals XP).
Fortunately for her or for them (whichever you feel sorry for the most) the doctor who tended to Intan before suddenly passed by, so Intan quickly motioned to her, then to her swollen face. The doctor took one look at Intan's face and quickly brought Intan to the medical room and then proceeded to tell her that she was having an allergic reaction to the pain killer given.......
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YOU THINK DOC???????????????????????
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YOU THINK DOC???????????????????????
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From the look on Intan's face, she reckons that the doctor knew that what she had just told Intan was not only redundant, but it could of possibly been in contention for the Understatement of the Year Award. Thus, the doctor quickly proceeded to get up and take her personally, through the secret back doorways that all clinics and hospitals have (Really, for those of you who didn't know, they have their own secret walkways, which is why you hardly see them walking outside the hallways. This would explain the strange situation where one minute the doc is in and the next he's out to lunch, when the fuck he went out and how, you had no idea considering you were waiting for him right outside his door) and straight to the sick bay area.
In the sick bay area, she was quickly put on a bed, covered in nice blankets and told to wait for a minute where a nurse would tend to her as soon as possible, then had the curtains shut on her. After a couple of minutes of wondering whether they were just going to let her die there, a nurse came in, took out a needle and smiled.
"Like wtf??? Another one?!" Intan thought. Fortunately, much to Intan's relief, the nurse took Intan's arm and rolled up the sleeves. You can tell that for a minute there, she thought by the time this ordeal would finish, she would have mooned the entire clinical staff.
Just before injecting the needle, the nurse quietly told Intan that the anti-allergic medicine would make her a little bit sleepy.......
To make the story short, I woke up on Monday.
The days between that were a blur. I do remember my parents picking me up from the clinic and I do remember eating dinner and more pills. Everytime I ate, there were pills to swallow. Basically, it was a combination of painkillers + anti-allergic ones (which made me sleepy and therefore I slept constantly).
So yes, the moral of this story is that:
1) Take proper care of your back even if you don't have any subsisting injuries.
2) Don't ignore the pain till you can't stand it anymore. It's better that you do something about it then, instead of waiting till the last minute then ask for an injection like moi.
3) Get your ass to a clinic as soon as possible if you think that there's something wrong going on once you've taken any form of medication.
4) Be aware of what medication you are taking just in case you might be allergic to it.
5) Once you find out that you're allergic to it, REMEMBER the name!!
6) Oh and listen to your mother cos she's usually always right.
Note: The painkiller that I was allergic to was Voltaren which is a non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug (NSAID). It's generic name is Diclofenac and is also marketed as the Flector patch, Voltarol, Diclon, Dicloflex Difen, Difene, Cataflam, Pennsaid, Rhumalgan, Modifenac, Abitren, Olfen, Voveran, Arthrotec, Dedolor, Deflamat and Zolterol.
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