Hello! Guess who’s back and ready to update this blog finally? ME!
Charr!
Anyways folks, a lot had happened — well duh, of course a lot had happened! Imagine I haven’t updated/write anything for the past two months (or more?) — so uhm, I was supposed to post a blog about a certain someone who does not listen to what I am saying and giving out suggestion/advice that I do not need but meh~ my anger subsided so I saved it as a draft instead. And that certain someone by the way, is my boyfriend. LOL! I made a rant post just because I wasn’t able to tell him the whole story and he kinda cut me off as soon as I started. Pssh! Enough about that petty disagreements. Now let’s discuss what have I been up to.
I’ve been completing the requirements sent to me by the college. However, weeks ago, I got held up (again) by one of the requirements. I thought I only have to wait for the child/adult abuse registry check but it turned out that I have to stress my arse off for a vaccine. Guess what kind of vaccine it is? Varicella. Yep, the vaccine for chickenpox. Apparently when my blood test result came out, I am susceptible of chickenpox which is not a surprise mind you, because I’ve never had chicken pox. My mum — mostly the elders — told me not to get close to my cousins or friends who had chickenpox when I was a child. It kinda pissed me off now that I am an adult because I never knew it’ll held me back. To be fair tho I never thought that I will continue nursing and it isn’t one of the requirements before in the Philippines. The process before I finally got a vaccine is uhm, pain in the butt.
I had my blood works done. Two weeks after, I called the clinic for an appointment and to see the result and for our family doctor to fill out my sheet. The appointment I booked was a week after I called — so I waited for three weeks in total. Then, when I got in the clinic our doctor told me that he didn’t get the result and that he didn’t have any record of my blood works done. And I’m like wtf — did I dreamed about it then? LOL. So he told me to ask the ladies in the front desk or go to the hospital and check for the result. I could’ve just asked the ladies in the front desk but I went the extra mile and went to the hospital and told the lady in the front desk about the situation. Lo and behold she told me that the result was sent in the clinic already and that I should ask the ladies/clerk in the clinic to phone them so they can forward the result. At this point, I was about to lose my shit. Well, actually I think I already lost it. I went back to the clinic, told them about the situation again — they told me to wait and the doctor will see me shortly (they must not be busy that day because I didn’t wait too long). With the result on his desk, he checked it and then surprise he ordered the wrong test on one of the blood works I needed which is Hep B. Instead of ordering a test regarding the antibody of Hep B, he ticked the wrong one which is antigen. Amazeballs, right? In confusion, he asked me whether it was him who ordered it because if it’s him why did he ordered it wrong. LOL I was sitting there and internally laughing and screaming: WHO ELSE AM I GOING TO ASK TO GET A DOCTOR’S ORDER FROM?
After clearing up the confusion, he gave me another order for blood test for Hep B. As for the antibodies for varicella virus, I was negative — meaning I had to get the vaccine. He told me to go to the health unit because he said they might give me a vaccine for free. Apparently, the public nurse I always see for my adult stuff had already made it clear that they don’t give varicella vaccine for free unless you were born between the years 1995-2005. And apparently I didn’t tell that to our family doctor which could have saved me another appointment from him. So I went back again the day after to get a prescription — the appointment was 11 but as suspected and as always, I waited for another hour and a half before I could meet him. He was apologetic though — he was like: “You’ve waited that long for a prescription?” and gave me advice that if ever I needed a prescription or a shot I could just ask the clerks/ladies in the front desk if I can see him without making an appointment. And to be honest, he’s got a point. Why would I wait for almost two hours for a prescription or a shot if it’ll only take a minute, right?
There, finally I got my prescription. Now another dilemma arise, who can administer the vaccine to me? I called the health unit and the public nurse told me that they cannot administer a vaccine that they do not carry. I asked the clerk in the hospital and she said that yes, I can bring the vaccine and let the nurse administer it to me. I didn’t want to go back to our family doctor because it felt like I’ve seen him enough for a year already LOL. I was having second thoughts whether the pharmacy in town will be able to administer it, I even researched online whether pharmacists can administer shots or not. I chose the latter. There was a fee though, but meh, I do not want to wait for 30 mins or more. And besides, I kind of did myself a favor by not driving to one place to another.
Wheew! I just need to wait for another six weeks for that last dose of the varicella vaccine. Other than that I think I am almost clear.
To me that week had been the busiest week of this year — as of now. Hehe. Well, I guess I have to update another time because this post is almost a novel. Write to you later!
Ciao!
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