15 April 2004 @ 05:40 pm
ho hum  
This episode better be worth it. I forgot Angel had a new ep last night so I'm now on the download hunt a day late. It's going to take 33 hours and 45 minutes at this rate. Wow. All I can say is - it better be worth it!

Had a doctors appointment this afternoon to see why I'm still so run down after being ill last week. I ran into the surgery dead on ten to which was when my appointment was for - got all these dirty looks from the receptionists but then have to sit for ten minutes waiting for the doctor who was running late. I finally get into the surgery, tell her what was up and she basically says to me I'm still fighting the bug, to keep my fluids up and come back in a week if I'm not better. And then shows me the door.

I was in the room for around two minutes. I didn't even get to take my jacket off. I know the NHS are pretty streched and all but I don't go to the doctors unless there's a very good reason. I'm not just feeling "run down" and wasting her time. I am physically shattered, not sleeping and can't work out why.

I still don't know why that is and I'm still shattered.
 
 
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[identity profile] liz-marcs.livejournal.com on April 15th, 2004 09:54 am (UTC)
Here's an interesting idea...
This sounds like something I had at university. I was not feeling great, a littl run-down, but I couldn't freaking sleep (I was running on two, three hours tops).

I couldn't get attention from the university doctors (flu, I was told), so when I went home, my parts took me to their primary care physician.

Turns out I had mono. Yup. Mono where you can't sleep and exhibit flu-like symptoms. *shrug*

Worth asking, anyway.

Feel better.
[identity profile] whiskyinmind.livejournal.com on April 15th, 2004 10:23 am (UTC)
Re: Here's an interesting idea...
That is really interesting, I'd heard of mono but not really known much about it until about five minutes ago. After you mentioned it I went and did a bit of reading up on it. It does fit quite a lot of my symptoms - and I'm also mangaging to get by on the two or three hours sleep thing.

I work in a university so I think I'll head to their helath service tomorrow and see if they can do a blood test for me. It's weird I'm doing it the opposite way from you - my own doctor's no help so I'm going to the uni one!

Thanks!