the nurse is KILLING ME!!

omg the school nurse is fricking impatient and thinks im a fool. since my voice was hoarse, my nose was runny and my head hurt, i went to the school clinic to ask if i had a fever during activity period, before lunch. since i had a sore throat i decided not to talk louder than i usually do. apparently, the nurse has some hearing issues because she was all, "what? you're gonna have to speak up, i cant hear you."

so, despite my aching throat, i tried to speak clearer using my own voice, but it came out all raspy. the clinic rolled her eyes and said, "you know, i cant write anything down if you don't speak loud enough." wtf?? she rolled her fricking eyes. thats gotta be illegal for school nurses.

i yelled a raspy, "sorry; sore throat!!" to get the message across and the clinic goes, "you cant be rude like that to an adult. say that again but a bit less rudely." i dont think she has a memory of what just happened because by now, my throat stung from overuse-while-sore disease.

fricking school clinics.

so then i said "I. HAVE. A. SORE. THROAT. A. HEADACHE. AND. A. RUNNY. NOSE." with deliberate slow speed and excess lip movement. now the clinic looked kind of irritated and said, "well then go lay down over there and see if the headache goes away. and i dont have any cough drops."

but i had taken an aspirin* this morning so i had no idea why my head was acting up now.

so i gently laid my aching head onto the clinic pillow, and later two other guys came to the clinic room. one of them had a bad cough and the other had a mild headache. the cough dude got a cup of water from the nurse and the headache dude got an ice pack from the cooler with the nurse's permission.

and the whole time i was like, "wtf?"

then the nurse was like, "are you all better now? can you go back to class?"
since i didnt know whether my class was at lunch or activity, i mumbled, "i dunno where i should go."
apparently, i was talking quietly again, so the nurse held up one hand to silence me and said, "didn't i say to speak clearer? or if it's too hard for you, just say yes or no."
i sighed and said, "yes."
"then go ahead to your classroom."

i figured a lot of time had passed, so i went to the cafeteria and my team was there. i sat next to my guy and girl friends, and they were like, "where were you? the table felt so empty!!"

i appreciated their welcome but i slumped my shoulders because i saw that the door to the lunch food was closed and so was the snack line. i said jokingly, "aagh! now i dont get any food for my headache?"

i guess one of my guy friends thought i was being serious. or maybe he knew i was really hungry. so he gave me an unopened banana muffin, saying, "hey, you can have this."
i looked at him in surprise and said, "hey really? thanks, man."

curse my guy talk.

so my stomach was saved and i managed to stay up on my feet without falling after school. no thanks to the clinic.

but now im at home and i feel really sick now. i dont have a fever but i have all the symptoms of a cold. i wanna stay at home from school tomorrow. do you think my parents will let me?



*an aspirin a day keeps the doctor away