Today I was somewhere in between. My coworkers all said "Go to the hospital". So I obeyed. Actually Jongsoo offered to take me, so I went without much worry.
In Korea, I guess "hospital" can also be like "clinic"? I'm not sure.. but basically doctors have offices in hospitals or somesuch. We walked into the building with a green cross on it, handed the receptionist my papers, and there was no wait (lucky, i guess) and I met this doctor was very funny and personable albeit mostly in Korean. He did understand all the big important words I needed him to understand such as "allergy" and "penicillin" and etc. I have a list of allergies a mile long, and after handing him the paper, I realized I need to add a few more. Jongsoo translated what I needed to know, and pretty much told the doctor to avoid giving me antibiotics.
Apparently the doctor said my throat is very swollen and to any normal Korean person, he'd give antibiotics. Haha. Yeah. That's life. Instead I'm on.... tylenol er, and 4 other pills.. I'm not sure what they are, but I'm told they're not antibiotics. None of them are large enough to be, nor do they resemble antibiotics. I assume it's stuff like decongestant or cough suppressant. One dose and I do feel a bit better.
Oh yes. I also got a shot. A butt shot (it's the hip, really). No, it didn't hurt.
Right now I'm drinking this traditional herbal medicine one of my coworkers gave me. It's not half bad and tastes of spices... ginger, ginseng? things like that.
But I'm procrastinating on this lesson plan. So back to work!
Feel better deary! The flu is making its rounds again here as well!
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