So I was able to take the day off work and sleep. I actually woke up that morning with a gross wet cough.. called into work and sounded really hoarse, so I'm really glad I didn't go. My current condition right now is still coughing, but that's probably because I'm currently in a house with three dogs. XD The first day I got here to Kelowna I found I was breathing heavily and dry coughing a lot. I suppose that's normal since I'm used to only have one dog around me, but I was with my sister's and my brother's dogs as well. Since then, I've been okay and only coughing a few times here and there. Every morning I always have a coughing fit for a bit because my mouth and throat are extremely dry... I need to drink water every morning. I hope I get to be 100% soon. There's been a lot of stuff on my mind lately so I really need to cool off and get better.
Not sure if I mentioned this before, but I had shingles in the past when I was 12. When it happened, I was experiencing intense pain and had to go to the doctor to get anti viral pills... but at the time my doctor had to make a few phone calls to give me a treatment. After taking the pills, the pain stopped and the shingles faded with a slight scar. Occasionally I get itchy in that area so I scratch around it. Now I have a rash that is red and whenever I go swimming I always put a bandaid on it. Also, when I wear clothes I have to wear a tank top at least so that if I go and try on clothes on stores, the wetness of the rash won't transfer... since it transfers onto my clothes so I need to wash them frequently. It swelled up this week and my mom freaked out at it today. She insisted I go to emergency to get it looked at and get some medicine right away. She's afraid it'll get worse and end up having to cut the skin off O_O.
My sister took me around Kelowna to find a walk-in clinic. Every clinic we went to was closed, except one, but it was like half an hour until closing, so they weren't taking anymore patients. There was a pharmacy nearby so I went in there and asked the pharmacist if she could recommend anything. My bf helped me explain to her that it's just scratching and now there's a rash. The pharmacist recommend to wipe the area clean 3 times daily and put on polysporin and a bandage on to avoid infection. She said it'll probably take about 7 days to heal. I bought the store-brand and applied it right after. Apparently it's healing so far, so that's a good sign. Tomorrow I'm going to still try to go to the doctor though and see if there's anything else I need to do to ensure that the rash goes away.
My sister mentioned that stress can cause it to swell like that... and honestly I think that's one of the major reasons why it itches so much. I've actually been under a lot of stress lately from work. Freelancing takes up a lot of time and focus.. and it can get really stressful especially with organizing payments... I think payments was one of the most stressful parts of it since I initially thought it would be paid immediately, but that just isn't the case with some companies. I'm also pretty stressed out from my part-time job too sometimes. Recently our manager went on vacation so we had a co-worker take her position during the month. One Saturday we didn't do closing correctly and I was the one who left the task undone since I thought the task didn't need to be done because it was left exactly how it was the night before. She sort of bitched at us saying that we closed like shit... I got really offended because I felt like it was mostly my fault since I'm sort of a perfectionist... lol. So I went and said that I thought the task was already done, but she told me that it needed to be done since someone used the machine. I told her she didn't have to give attitude and she told me that I didn't need to make any excuses and just do the task all the time for closing no matter what... I asked her what else I could do and she said I could just stop making excuses and just apologize and close everything next time. I didn't want to argue anymore so I just apologized. Not only does work stress me out but lately my co-workers have been going out all the time. I get invited but I haven't gone to anything since I was trying to save up for my freelancing fees and for this vacation. Also, most of the stuff my co-workers do involves drinking... and well I'm not that kind of person who's into drinking. I rather go out and have a bite to eat for dinner, or go bowling or laser tag or something else. However, I think my stress will go away if I be more social, so I'm going to accept their invites more often... that is, if they still invite me.
I need to hangout with my friends more too. The school semester is coming up soon and also many of my friends have graduated already, so I need to spend this summer with them before we go back to school and before they go onto full-time work. I really wanted to hangout more with my friends this summer, but we've all been pretty busy with work and school. I also need to exercise daily and be more positive. I definitely need to clean my room/house more and smile lots too... I never used to be super stressed before, but when I did get stressed it would be pretty high. However I would cool down pretty fast... but since university started I've been stressed lots and my hormone levels are all over the place. There's just to much stuff to get stressed about :S T_T Need to go back to my stress-free days :)
I'm also pretty angry right now since my ears have been plugged for a few days... being in higher altitudes and driving up along the mountain does this. I've tried to plug my nose and blow to pop my ears, it works for a bit but my left ear currently is still plugged. I've tried yawning but my yawns aren't strong enough, I've tried swallowing too but that's not working well either. Eh... at least I'm not editing anything right now, otherwise it would be a challenge. o.o
I forgot what else I wanted to blog about here but I think this post is long enough for today... haha. I'm listening to some music and eating nacho chips with salsa. This is relaxing so far. :)
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