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So I woke up twice in the morning to puke my guts out coz of those irritating dry coughs that make me heave. Finally gave up on sleep and woke up at 9.30am and self-medicate with dad's cough syrup. Worked for a while and felt pleasantly buzzed and sleepy by mid-afternoon and most of the evening.
Mom came home and at the mention of wanting to get coconuts to help with my sore throat, she felt my forehead, did the mom thing and nagged at me to go see a doctor. Since, y'know, I'm going to Malaysia tomorrow and they'll never let me get pass the customs with my 37.6 Celsius fever and my hacking my pharynx out. So I did the daughter thing and stalled as long as I could, popped some Panadol Extra and told her they're just gonna prescribe paracetamol for my fever anyway. Still, mom-thing >>> daughter-thing and at the urging of my mom, dad and grandma, I went to see the family doctor (who--during my last visit earlier this year--commented that I haven't been to his clinic in "quite a while". That is doctor-speak for "years". What can I say, effective self-medication and a baka-fortitude keeps me away from docs.)
I ended up in the clinic at 8.30pm, the last patient of the night. Damn there's a lot of sick people today. And lo! Paracetamol for fever. Gee... Another few buncha pills for sore throat, stuffed nose and cough. =__= I could've told her that and saved myself 1.5 hours of waiting... No wait, I did. =_____________="
When I exited the back door of the clinic coz I'm the last person and all, mom and dad were in front of the clinic. Mom was freaking out and saying (screaming) how I didn't take my phone out with me and how they can't find me and all that. I was like, I'm charging my phone so I took James' and she turned her arrowhead to the bro. "That boy! I went in and asked him to call me if you called me and he didn't think to mention that you've got his phone?!?!!?" Lol...
She's got my grandma all worried and my aunt wanting to push out her bike and do the neighborhood patrol. Dad quietly mentioned how she'd almost called the cops to file for missing persons. Like they'll bother with someone missing for 1.5hrs. They don't even bother about people missing for 23 hours. =__=" Gee...
So what does this teach us kids?
$27 can buy you 4 types of drugs (including paracetamol for fever), 1.5 hours of precious wasted time and a truckload of worry from 3 different matriarchal heads.
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Haha I'd stick to polyclinics, you'll spend at most 20bucks on paracets and cough syrups.
