Wednesday, August 01, 2007

The Importance of Making Appointments!

[No .. this is NOT the promised extravagant 100th post .. I decided to scrap that since the readership never reaches more than two people]

Approximately four hours is how long I waited at the medical centre to get checked up by a practitioner. Of course, let's not blame the busy doctors (five of them on duty in fact) or the receptionists parked on their behind all day long organizing (!) patients to their rightful doctors- I blame myself. How stupid would I have to be to think that I could ever see a doctor without an appointment (which I usually make anyway- so why not this time?).

Turns out that the boils on my feet contracted from Bangladesh (more specifically from Middle Badda) which resemble genital herpes are viral, hence it's merely an waiting game 'till the boils dry up by themselves.

Four hours and I'm back home with having missed breakfast, a three hour lab (where attendance counts to at least 10% of the course), no treatment and a firm believer (and an 'advocator') of appointments. I did however manage to get a doctor's certificate for the past three days for missed classes which could possibly save me from tiny mark deductions.

I have only one thing to say- I miss Dhaka.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

i know...and i'll miss it too :(

i had become an advocate while sitting on a desk writhing inside in pain while waiting for opthalmologist to see me..a wait lasting for a few hours