lavanderblues

Wednesday, September 28, 2005

wow last night was an interesting night.

basically, i hurt my back on mon when chiara was teaching me how to dive from the starting blocks into the pool (to no fault of chiara's of course). somehow when i impacted the water, my back was arched. then i sorta went into shock and hit the pool floor subsequently. thought it was no biggie hehe... but at night when i was at the airport seeing liang si off, my back started to hurt abit.

tues morning - difficulty in getting up, bending forward etcetc due to pain in lower back, lumbar vertebrae region. but i thought that it couldnt have been much. afterall i could still walk and stuff, just a little pain.

talked to sean (m3) online, and he was telling me how he thought it was a compression fracture. and i was like *@#!@*!#! cos it sounded serious. checked it out online and well it seemed to describe my clinical signs more or less. so i got a bit scared. back injury wad right.. must get it checked, no joke. and well zhen and lawrence suggested that i should go now, (and it was freaking 12midnight on tues night), to skip the queues at the hospital a&e dept. hehe...

sweet zhenzhen was all geared up to mobilise the KE ppl to go down to nuh a&e with me. hee so sweet =) but lawrence (the super boyfriend!) drove down instead to send me.

parked at nuh carpark (cost $2 can...), went in search of the a&e, only to be told that there was a long long queue and standard waiting time wld be 2-3 hrs. #@!@*!#@!! again... why so many ppl like to see doctor at midnight one??? bleah. so we wasted $2. drove to ah instead, the next nearest hospital. haha and well an indication of the crowd there: my queue no. was 0001! hahahhaha...

got served by this HILARIOUS doctor (shant parade his name here to preserve his modesty) with a SUPER FUNNY singsong voice!!! hahahhaa... he made me so amused i forgot to tell him my ribs hurt when i laughed or put pressure on it. hahahaha... he was amazingly bright and chirpy "HELLoooo!!!" when i walked in, and called my name "chin hui LINN~NNN".. dunno how to physically describe the way he practically sang my name out when he came out to call me in. hahahahhahaha... i just spent most of my time trying not to laugh hahahaha... hee hee. totally reminded me of those children's shows where everything is totally exaggerated and happyfied. hahahaha...

so anyway i took an xray. and when i looked at it, couldnt see fracture/slipped disc. WHEW. asked him what he thought it was he said "OH its a MUSCLE problem" ,, what kind of muscle problem "MUSCLE LA!" haha DANG there goes my hopes of getting a free medical lesson hahahah. then again i was determined not to tell him that i was a medical student. u noe when u see doctors who noe u're a medical student, they expect u to noe everything. hahaha... and i obviously dunno anything. so yarh.

so okay i have a muscle problem. official diagnosis is "back pain (unspecified)" wahlau... wth hahahhaa...

got like a million kinds of medicines. muscle relaxant, anti inflammatory etcetc... so the entire fiasco cost me $55. gah. poor liao.

this morning, back much better. instead ribs hurt instead. during anat tutorial, prof gopal and the rest kept making random jokes, and i was trying so hard not to laugh. hahaha every time i laughed it wld be like "HAHAHAH-ouch-HAHAHHA" sighs. hehe... and well to sean's credit, prof thot it might have been a fracture or sthg too.

yeps so im here now. just woke up after taking one of the medicines that has a drowsy effect. the muscle relaxant i think. haha.. yay.

hope i recover in time for ifg on sat. and sighs. i want to play!!!! =( can't dance nor play now. gah.

lin~*
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