Sarah's Sickly Adventures

After five days of not feeling well I decided enough was enough and forced my friend Jesse to take me to the doctors this morning. Sounds easy enough ehh… well it wasn’t. Aside from feeling like I might die at any moment (no one said I wasn’t over dramatic) the easy 15 minute walk there turned into a 45 minute hike. I bet your wondering how, well I will indulge you- As you all probably know by now I am not exactly known for my fantastic sense of direction. (I actually had to get a GPS just to get around East Cobb, and I’ve been living there for 10 years. Even worse if Jason wants to surprise by taking me somewhere all he has to do is drive left out of his neighborhood for ten minutes and I wont know where I am…) So it came as a shock to me when Noah, one of my staff members, told me that it was a fairly easy walk with only two right turns. Still I was hesitant so I dragged Jesse out of bed to take me there (plus I hate the doctors and I needed someone to fight them off if they even thought about using a needle on me).

We left at 7 am so we could get there early and he/we, if I thought I was feeling better, could make it to class by 9am. We walked out of beit nativ and we came to the intersection where we were supposed to turn. Easy enough- minus the fact that the street names were Raman and Ramad (very easy to get mixed up at 6:45am when Noah is telling you how to get there and you don’t feel well). We took what we thought was the right street and just started walking. As we kept going farther down we realized that we should have turned by now and that we were lost. Good thing we made a dead end at a school where people spoke English and could give us directions. After much hard work and many hills we made it to the doctors at 7:50. Nothing to fun happened there (as expected) except for running into Shosh, another staff member, who had taken another nativer to the clinic… obviously the unnecessary morning hike could have all been avoided if we had just known she was going. Very long story short the Dr told me I have a viral infection and early signs of a sinus infection so he gave me some meds and told me to come back on Friday if I didn’t feel better. Oh and the walk home took less than 15mins when I went back with Shosh….
The rest of the day I slept and lounged around my room, only leaving for meals and to help Jesse with his laundry (an apparently equal trade for taking me to the doctors). I also finally saw the movie American Beauty and now can ‘be a member of society’ as my friend Gabe tells me…

Oh and Jason- that makes post number four…. See I can keep a blog