So ironic. I honestly cannot believe the amount of times I have come down with something this year as a clinical student. Maybe it is to do with picking stuff up at hospitals, or perhaps it is due to my increase in trips to the dodgy takeaway places this year. Either way, I am not doing too well at the moment and it is SOOOOO FRUSTRATING.
I have had this minor cough for a few weeks, then on Monday morning I woke up ready for uni but I couldn’t speak. My throat was so swollen ( I actually cried because I couldn’t talk…that’s bad.). Had a look inside my mouth and saw some white bits at the back. Now I am no “top in the year” student but I did realise that those spots probably shouldn’t be there. I took myself down to the GP and was handed a prescription of penicillin for tonsillitis. Great.
Doctor: “What are your plans for the rest of the week?”
Me: “I am on attachment at Hillingdon Hospital, it is my last week of haematology…”
I watched how the doctor started typing on his computer a note saying “…I have advised her that she should avoid contact with haematology patients who may be immunocompromised. I have advised her to take time off for the next 5 days to recover”. OH DEAR.
I mean, I know it is the right thing that I am not infecting any patients in the hospital but being bedridden and ill is the most boring thing in the world. I thought I would enjoy this week off but nothing happens in the daytime at home. It is so boring!!!! I don’t even have the energy to get on with stuff at home.
Being ill at University is a big annoyance. It means I can’t go in to things like the scheduled exam preparation, go out with my friends (so much fomo), and get on with my extra-curricular stuff.
I have spent hours over the past few days on google trying to cure myself in weird and wonderful ways. I have looked into all textbooks assessing every symptom I have hoping there is a magical cure. There is none.
Being ill as a medical student is so hard- you have bits of knowledge about what you are taking and what is going on but not enough to just fix yourself instantaneously. The waiting game is real, and I just want to get back to normal student life again. Sigh.
I will be accepting sympathy all week long. And any cures. Any anything that breaks this boredom.
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