Allergies and Bad Timing

Recently, my allergies have been getting worse. I've been getting monster headaches and I can't really study or even see clearly. Finals week is coming up and I really don't want to mess it up.

Despite my allergies to beef and potatoes, it was actually egg that sent me to the hospital...

Ok, that time was also bad. It was requirements week, a week before finals and I was rushed to the hospital. I wasn't able to take the Operations Management finals that day. Thankfully, I knew my teacher's number and was able to tell him. Our paper in that class was nearing the deadline so I asked my mom to bring my laptop to the hospital.

Can you imagine me, with a dextrose stuck in my right hand, and an oxygen tube in my nose (really uncomfortable... feels like I have a booger up my nose and it itches). I occasionally have to breathe through a nebulizer (you breathe into it using your mouth) while typing away, doing our paper on coated-lenses. Sometimes, blood would appear on the tube of the dextrose because I've been stressing my hand because of too much typing. Ok, no more gory scenes.

The nurses were asking me why I have my laptop when I should be resting. I told them school doesn't wait for anyone. We have a deadline and being in the hospital is no excuse. They asked me where I am studying so I told them I'm from Ateneo.

"Ah, high school ka? Hindi naman kabigat yung load namin dati."

I smiled at them warmly and told them I'm already in college.

They didn't seem to understand so they said, "Wow, hindi ka kasi mukhang kolehiyana e."

Yeah, it made my nose itch some more.

So starting today, I've been taking larger doses of antihistamine and bringing painkillers to school. Pain's distracting especially when I'm studying so I'll just hope my liver can cope with morphine-like medicine.

I wish this sem would end sooner.

But then again, it's like speeding up college... which is something I would not want to happen... haha, prolong the agony.