By now, my master’s thesis should have been submitted for 4 days already... well, it isn’t. On Saturday the 26th of May, I started feeling sick and by Sunday it was evident that I had a tonsillitis (which is not all too unusual since I have that about twice per year). Usually, antibiotics and some pain killers against the sore throat help and the whole thing is done within 2-3 days. This time, however, it wasn’t. After seeing a doctor on Monday (everything was closed since it’s some christian holiday here, so I had to visit the emergency services), I started taking the antibiotics and quickly went through all the painkillers I still had.
Story continues....
Since I was supposed to submit my thesis on Thursday, I went to the university on Wednesday to submit an application for extending the deadline by two weeks. The standardized attestation by the emergency doctor wasn’t accepted by the department in university (they insist on their own forms for that - forms that ask very weird questions to the doctor), so I had to go through the city to have the doctor sign the special university attestation form. With that, I went back to university and submitted the application. However, the people actually responsible weren’t there (the public holiday triggered a one-week break from lectures), so I had no definitive information if the application would be accepted.
By Thursday, the medical situation hadn’t improved
at all, so I revisited the doctor who referred me to a specialized
department in a local hospital. An assistant physician there looked at my tonsils, gave me an
additional prescription for painkillers and a different type of
antibiotics and sent me home with a recommendation to return the next
day.
On Friday, I yanked myself back to the hospital (still with a
fever and just a bit food and sleep deprived). This time, I remembered
that I actually have decent health insurance and had a senior physician
examine me. He looked into my throat, shook his head and had me
admitted. Turned out there was an abscess behind one tonsil that
severely complicated the healing process. In any other case, my tonsils
would have been removed on the spot, but that would’ve meant a week of
hospitalization. Since I have a thesis to complete, I ruled that out
and opted only for the most necessary measures.
Since I hadn’t
brought anything, I had to stumble home, get my stuff and then get back
to hospital. The otolaryngology department was full to the last bed, so
they put me in the ICU. There I was, not having done a thing on my
thesis for a week, in a bleak room with a guy who really didn’t sound
like he’d enjoy breathing at the moment.
As usual for that kind of sickness, I got IVs with antibiotics and on Saturday morning, they put me to sleep to cut that abscess open. The following night, a doctor stood in front of me and went, “we need your bed, we’re transferring you somewhere else.” And off I went into a 4-bed-room (my insurance even pays 2-bed-rooms and that is what I signed up for upon admission). Lemme tell you, sleeping is a challenge in a room where 2 out of 4 people cannot breathe with their nose...
I got a senior physicial to release me Mid-Sunday and went home, taking with me a stack of antibiotics. Now I’m at the desk for the second day and trying to gain some ground on the business stuff and continue the thesis. Thankfully, my application for extension of the deadline was accepted without any fuss.
Couldn’t all this have happened just a week later? Grmpf.
hay vindication stood
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