I am typing this at home when am supposedly at the office already taking calls and doing my job but instead am stuck at home facing my PC waiting ever patiently for the drug to kick in. Asthma attacks are increasingly becoming very familiar and tiresome. My alarm has been set at 12 midnight to give me enough time to prepare for work and not be late for my 1:30AM shift but today like those days where I had what I call an episode I was awakened by the drowning feeling and was gasping for air at 11PM … an hour earlier than scheduled.
The meds still hasn’t kicked in and am forced to call the office stating my condition and how unwell I am *sigh* my asthma is accompanied by a sharp pain on my back, I’ll be forced to take some kind of pain reliever to make this go away. Though I’ve come to terms that I’ll prolly be living my life alone but being sick and alone at the same time is just not good … not good at all.
When I started gaining weight I was frantic coz am scared of having to buy new jeans I don’t seem to fit in them anymore. But right now am slowing losing weight not that am on a diet but because I’ve been sick on and off. My asthma attacks are becoming erratic and what used to a be a monthly episode now happens to just occur any day of the week. I remembered mom saying that I shouldn’t worry about gaining weight because eventually I’d lose them, no one in the family is big. I mean literally she has been thin all her life and so is everyone in the family. You see being asthmatic is in our family tree and that I’ll lose whatever fat I have.
Quite true actually I was big during my teenage years and as I grow older I seem to be trimming down. Eventually. I was absent again from work earlier … another case of asthma *sigh*.
Moi: Is there vgh (voluntary go home) for TR (my LOB)?
DM: not for you yet
Moi: lol
That was the chat I’ve had with the DM on duty, he’s so used to me asking VGH everyday it became a habit for him to say none for you yet … I usually ask around 7AM and they’re usually granted around 8AM or 8:30AM, my shift ends at 10:30AM. So I was on VGH at around 8:30AM and headed straight to the lounge to sleep. I’ve been feeling wonky since Sunday, runny nose, cough, off and on fever and asthma. The nurse is so used to seeing me go to the clinic to use the nebulizer that we became fast friends lol.
I slept in the lounge from 8:30 AM to 1PM *sigh* and when I woke up I went straight to Biopath and to see the quack. She advised me to go on rest for 3 days as I had what she called viral infection, it’d be better if I stay at home.
Good luck to me and to my pay.
