TONSALITIS.

 Alas I am a victim of Murphy’s Law.  Everything and anything will go wrong at the worst possible time.

 I think the part that bothers me the most is that the school might be blaming me for getting sick.  They had told me to go to the hostpial a few times and I’m thinking the hospital for a stupid cold?  That’s ridiculous.  Apparently out here hostpial and doctor are one in the same.  They should educate themselves on the difference. 

Honestly they have been really nice and kept telling me how all the teachers were worried about me.  I love my job a lot so it’s just really bad timing for all of this. 

I’ve been having little sniffles and a teeny cough for the past few weeks but just your little common cold.  So does everyone at work.  Kids coughing all over the place and being absent. 

Andrea had advised me that as someone in a new school and espeically in a new country with a whole set of new germs I should really go to the pharmacy and get something.  On Monday I left school early with the intention of doing that but fell asleep.  Tuesday I battled through the day (had a slight fever ) and went home as soon as I finished classes.  I then went directly to the pharmacy and got something to take.  I wanted to see how much better I got with the medicine before I went to the dr.   Before this week it was just little sniffles, sniffles that everyone has!!

 My conscience was in a knot when I finally decided not to go to school yesterday (I had wanted to pull and high school record of no absenses but then I thought if you don’t rest you’re gonna keep being sick).  I figured I’d see what the medicine did for me before going into the dr. 

Last night Andrea advised me that if I were going to school to I should have someone take me to the dr. first and so I went to the dr. around 10 am.  It turns out it’s right down the street from my apt.  It was there I was told that I had tonsalitis and that I was to rest in bed for the next two days.  Oh this sooo doesn’t fit in with my schedule! 

They wanted to do a chest x-ray but they never did ask how deep my cough was.  It actually isn’t very deep at all so the dr. said I could wait and see what the medicine did by Saturday.  Last time I had x-rays and whatnot  I wracked up 3 grand.  (Of course I had quit my job at the very same hopspital ironcially and was out of insurance at the time.  Def. my bad!)  Here they pay half of my health insurance.   

Kudos to Korean doctors though.  I’m not sure if we even made an appt.  They were so efficient with like 4 lines of paperwork so in a sense no paperwork and the dr. actually explained things to me… like you have white stuff on your tonsils from a virus.  If only we could be like that in America!

They (school) still want me to come into work tomorrow to decorate my classroom despite the dr. telling me to stay home.  I’m sure I’ll be ok and I TOTALLY HAVE TO DECORATE IT!  This major Halloween shin-dig is tomorrow and my classroom is screwed if I don’t get it done!  How disappiointed with the kids and parents be. 

Luckily I’ve been bringing home crafts with me to work on, not that I have touched any of it but I think I will today.  I HAVE TO. 

I’m sorry to have to vent but I was just a bit offended about the thought that I brought this upon myself.  I wouldn’t even have considered a doctor if not two days before so it’s not like I put it off till I was hacking up a lung.  I’ve had many coughs in my time and no tonsalitis.  Ok i’m gonna “let sleeping dogs lie” – whichever teacher taught me that phrase back in the day… I just used it!

Mom and everyone who worries, I’m frickin fine.  Just pray I don’t trash Halloween.  Sucks to be sick for one of my favorite holidays on top of it all. 

I do feel a little less guilty bc when I stayed home I was actually sick. I don’t like staying home if I can tough it out.  Kind of like my dad. 

Ok so off to craft hell I go!  Some OJ, ramen noodle soup and plenty of water. 

Aimee

PS I must say it can be kind of annoying to be sick in another country and to communicate your symptoms and whatnot.  I could have sworn Ellie sounded a bit annoyed.  She’s like are you listening?  I’m thinking lady I’m frickin listening.  haha.  I just can’t exactly shout back at you with my crappy voice right now. 

I received an article from my concerned old roomie Jacob this am – though he just probably wants to prove me wrong – that indeed I am going to get blown up out here.  And if I do get blown up I will blame my other roomie Dave because he told me to go for it!  hehe.  Haha just kidding guys! 

Jacob, I am glad that you’re all healed up from your summer accident and playing sports again.  I was happy to help out and now appreciate your “help” – aka concern. I’m not actually worried since these two countries ended the 1950-53 conflict on the peninsula in an armistice and have been hating ever since.  The hating will probably continue but I don’t think I have to worry about decapitation.  I probably face more dangers as a Yankee fan.  haha.

Here is the article:

NKorea threatens to turn SKorea into ‘debris’

Tue Oct 28, 8:28 am ET

AFP – South Korean activists release balloons loaded with propaganda leaflets to float across the border into …

• Slideshow: North Korea

SEOUL (AFP) – North Korea, angry at a leaflet campaign by Seoul groups urging the overthrow of its leader, accused South Korea on Tuesday of planning a pre-emptive strike and threatened to reduce it to “debris” in retaliation.

The North’s military said it would use a “more powerful and advanced” strike of its own if South Korea launched a pre-emptive strike.

“The puppet authorities (Seoul) had better bear in mind that the advanced pre-emptive strike of our own style will reduce everything… to debris, not just setting them on fire,” it said in a statement carried by the state news agency, KCNA.

“It will turn out to be a just war… to build an independent reunified state on it.”

The North’s military described its pre-emptive capability as “beyond imagination, relying on striking means more powerful than a nuclear weapon”.

The 1.1 million-strong military has for years deployed hundreds of conventional missiles targeting the South.

Relations between the two nations have been frosty for months.

But the latest warning, in unusually strong language, was in response to the actions of South Korean activists and defectors , who have launched balloons carrying tens of thousands of leaflets across the heavily fortified border.

On Monday, activists launched more than 40,000 leaflets from a boat near the eastern sea border.

These urged North Koreans to rise up against leader Kim Jong-Il, whom they described as a “murderous” dictator, and repeated claims that he suffers from paralysis following a stroke in mid-August.

Kim’s health is an especially sensitive subject in the hardline communist state, which gives its citizens only official information.

Pyongyang has complained before about South Korean reports that Kim suffered a stroke for which he needed brain surgery.

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso said Tuesday in Tokyo Kim is likely in hospital but is still capable of making decisions.

The military warned it would take “resolute practical action” if the South pursues a “confrontational racket” by spreading leaflets and conducting a smear campaign “with sheer fabrications”.

It did not elaborate on the action. At military talks Monday the North repeated threats to evict South Koreans from the Kaesong joint industrial complex unless Seoul stops the cross-border leaflets.

Tuesday’s statement rejected Seoul’s arguments that it cannot stop such actions in a democracy. It said the leaflet launches were masterminded by the South’s spy agency.

The statement warned of a “total severance” of relations unless the conservative South Korean government respects summit accords reached with previous liberal Seoul governments in 2000 and 2007.

“The warning is not empty words because the North’s military will never tolerate slandering its leader,” Koh Yu-Hwan, a Dongkuk University professor, told AFP.

“North Korea may take strong military action or a limited military clash is always possible,” he said.

The North’s government newspaper Minju Josun said last week the launch of leaflets could trigger accidental border clashes which could develop into a full-scale military confrontation.

North Korea has already cut almost all official contacts with Seoul since President Lee Myung-Bak took office in February and adopted a tougher stance on cross-border ties.

After their first summit in 2000, the two nations agreed to halt government-level propaganda, a feature of the Cold War era.

But Seoul-based private groups have continued their leaflet drops, despite pleas from the South Korean government and from factory operators in Kaesong to stop the practice.

Unification ministry spokesman Kim Ho-Nyoun renewed the plea on Tuesday but but private groups said they would again float about 100,000 leaflets in a week.

The two Koreas have remained technically at war since the 1950-53 conflict on the peninsula ended only in an armistice.

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