39.8
The first thing my mum said when i came home on wed was: poor thingg. acherli any1 who saw me on that dayy would say the same. cos i was miserable and sickly, plus i had like 2 huge plasters on my arm.
basically, on tue night, i was down with high fever, and it continued to rise thruout the night. i also had a super bad headache that didnt allow me to raise my head. ZOMGZ. it was like my worst night ever. i just lay in bed feeling miserable, and waiting for morning to come so that i can report sick. i couldnt even eat breakfast, and took alot of effort to get out of my bed. thanks to all my bunk mates and
yinghao who took care of me thruout the nite and helping me take my temp. even tho the thermometer was like centimetres away from me, i cldnt even get up to measure my own temp. it was THAT bad. i slept at 7pm that night and woke up at 6am the next day, effectively clocking 11hrs of sleep. but i dint get out of bed until 7am to report sick at the medical centre. by then, my temp was 39.8.
the doc recommended me to be IV dripped (the greatest horror of my life, esp since i almost had a bubble entering my blood during an IV drip session in SISPEC). and so i went to the sick bay and prepared to get myself dripped. the medic in charge told me he will go prepare to drip me. after setting up the drip, he was all ready to jab the needle into my vein, when his other fren came and felt like practising his jabbing. and so he took over the needle and jabbed me AND failed. after which, that guy muttered some stuff and just walked off looking pissed and passed th needle back to the first medic, who said he is very experienced. and so he attempted to jab me a 2nd time, AND FAILED again. and he tried a 3rd time. it was quite clear that he missed, but just so not to lose face, he decided to twist and turn the needle about hoping he might by luck get the needle into my vein. of cos, after much effort, he failed.
then he called another of his fren, who claims he had never failed before. i was placing my hopes on tt guy but he missed my vein again. by now i dont have many veins for them to choose frm to drip alr. and then another guy heard tt i had been jabbed 4 times came in, said tt his frens suck, and jabbed me a 5th time. and failed. then the medics were all like damn paisehh and said stuff like: u have an interesting anatomy. haha. zomgz. and then they decided to call their sergeant in. but the sergeant failed too. i was acherli quite pissed with the lot of them cos they were treating it as a challenge liddat. with the nxt-better-player attitude. zomgz. this is not a game loh.
anw, at this point of time that they decided to seek help from the MO, who was quite appalled that i got jabbed 6 times. and asked them to stop jabbing me and gave up on dripping me. instead, i had to be jabbed in my butt, which was alot less painful anyway. and that was how i ended up with 6 jab marks on my arm at the end of the dayy. ):
this terrible incident aside, living in the sick bay is actually a very pleasant experience. u get food delivered straight to u. when u r thirsty, u can ask for water. when u r cold, u can ask for extra blankets. and most importantly, there is a hot shower in the sick bay! :o so i was resting in the sick bay for the whole dayy. slept thru most of the day. the jab was quite effective, cos by noon, my fever dropped by 2 degrees already.
in the evening, i was ready to be discharged cos my temp had stabilised already. when i walked out of the sickbay, i met jonfoo, who was reporting sick for chicken pox. aft collecting my medicine, i went back to join the rest at the vehicle shed. there, i suddenly felt dizzy and had a strong urge to vomit. i rushed to the drain to vomit and my knees felt weak all of a sudden. zomg. it was like so scaryy. ):
so that was my state when i reached home on wed. ): took my medicine and had an early rest. felt alot better on thur and went to sch (: realised i missed sch loads! wanted to meet my
buddies but cldnt find them ): met quite alot of my teachers thoughh. and also
ms goon the chem tutor :P saw
chinghui too but dint get to talk to him. chatted with teachers till noon before going to canteen with
cheekie and
grace for lunch. MISSED canteen food! esp frm my fave stall. haha. ordered black pepper chicken stew *coughs* wonders if 1D ppl still rmb. and guess wad. the stall auntie acherli rmbs me haha.
cheekie told me abt his experience in armour over lunch and told me that he had a similar experience as wad i had experienced the day b4. :P he was warded for high fever too and they poked him like 20 times HAHA. ohh. and i got to see
ethan's pic! we all agreed he doesnt look like
cheekie :/
after lunch, rushed home to get ready for my guard duty. hehs. decided to do sentry this time roundd. chatted with the sergeant while standing at the sentry post. when he heard of my IV drip incident, he said sthg like: never let urself be in a situation where u have to let the medics in this camp jab u. guess i learnt this the hard wayy huh. dint get much sleep dur guard duty and my fever came back, tgt with flu ): bleahh. come to thk of it. mebbe i did predict im going to fall sick. *points to blog title of last week's entry* its all planned de :P
consilio et animis
7/28/2007 08:45:00 PM
