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quick real life update
Hello, DW! My first lecture tomorrow is at 12am, so I decided to write a quick update on my health and other stuff.
I went to the doctor today and got a blood test. I'm feeling definitely better than I did last week, since I'm able to eat now thanks to the medicine. The doctor says I should keep taking the medicine until next time I see her, which will be next Wednesday. The medicine doesn't have major side effects, although it does make me sleepy whenever I take it - but I'd rather feel sleepy for a bit than not be able to eat anything at all.
So yeah, today I did yet another blood test. Tbh, I could have told the doctor I had a blood test in Italy already, but I figured, what the hell, let's have another one just to be sure - maybe they'll find something that my doctor didn't find in Italy. It was just a blood test anyway, it's not like I was in major pain or anything.
I'm sort of facepalming at my doctor back in Italy now, though. See, since I'm a student here in Scotland, whenever I go to the doctor I don't pay a thing, which is pretty amazing in my opinion - so not only do I not pay for the visits, but I didn't pay to get my blood test, either. Back in Italy, however? I paid 50 euro. Fifty. Five. Zero. Just to give you an idea, with 50 euro I can buy two weeks' worth of food here in the UK. Two weeks.
It wouldn't bother me so much if at least the doctor made me do some useful tests; but no, they were completely useless. I had one thing that I really wanted to get tested - I caught a bacteria back during last winter, I took medicines for it, and I wanted to check if I still had it - that was the only test that was important to me. Did the doctor get my blood tested for that bacteria? Nope. It was just a general check-up. Which, again, I would be ok with, if I hadn't had a general check-up during Christmas which showed that, except for that bacteria, there was nothing wrong with me. And unless I change my lifestyle completely from how it is now, those values are not exactly going to do a super drastic change.
So yeah, bottom line is, I spent 50 euro on a general check-up which I had already done some months back and the only thing that I actually wanted to get tested for, I did not get tested for. Two weeks worth of food literally thrown out the window.
I mean, what the heck is wrong with my doctor? She knows I'm not living at home anymore - she should know that money is the biggest concern when you live in another country and you're on your own. She knew I had this bacteria back in winter. Why the heck did she not get my blood tested for it?! It was the only thing that I was interested in; I couldn't care less about my general check-up. All the times I've had blood tests, even when years passed between them, they were always the same - they all showed that I had no allergies and that I'm perfectly normal. I know I'm perfectly normal, except for this freaking bacteria - I don't need to spend 50 freaking euro to get a confirmation that my body is doing ok!! I can see that with my own eyes, and for free!
But that's not all. My dad told the doctor about the nausea and how I couldn't eat to see what the doctor had to say or if she had any advice. And what did the doctor say? She said I'm nauseous because I'm ~worried~ about something. Yes. I feel physically sick whenever I eat because I'm worried. To which I can say only two things: 1) ok, that might be a plausible explanation, but you're a doctor, not a psychiatrist. I want a medical explanation when I go to the doctor, not something I can get off the internet myself in 10 minutes by doing a research on google; and 2) I'll be honest, I do worry. I admit I worry too much. I've been worried plenty of times in my life, but right now? I can tell you for sure I'm not worried. What should I even be worried about? Exams? I just started uni and they're in December. Essays? Not really, I plan to start working and organising them between this week and next week and I have plenty of time to hand them in. Boyfriend? Nope, I just had a lovely weekend at Andrew's house and if everything goes well, he's coming back on Wednesday to spend time with me again. So what the hell should I be worried about?? The only thing I'm slightly worried about right now tbh is the illness itself, but that's because I know I have an illness - if I didn't have it, I wouldn't be worrying about it! But ever since I've been able to eat, then I won't even worry about it, as long as I take the medicine.
So yeah, tl;dr my doctor back in Italy made me facepalm pretty hard. She's not even a bad doctor, on the contrary, I always considered her to be pretty good, but in this case... I think I'll be sticking with the Scottish doctor, thank you very much. At least she gives me medicines so I can eat and survive the day! Telling me I'm ~worried~ still won't make me magically eat, I'm afraid.
As for the weekend, it was pretty sweet. I stayed at Andrew's house, relaxed myself totally, played Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands (I'm addicted to this game again after months - I'm getting pretty good at mining, too! My current goal is to learn how to cook wonderful stones and yeah, it's going to take awhiiiiiiiiiiiile. But I like challenges, lol!) and watched Leverage (that's right - I got Andrew addicted to Leverage! He bought me the DVDs of seasons 1 and 2 for my birthday and he really likes it. :D Now, if only his mom would stop calling it "the American Hustle"... it's not Hustle, ok? It's Leverage and it's freaking awesome! lol). It was a pretty good weekend overall. ♥
Andrew also spent the night in my room. He tried to sleep on the floor, since my bed is small for two people (but the room itself is pretty big), but because he had brought the wrong sleeping bag that wouldn't fit him, he didn't really sleep much (and the little sleep he got, well, it wasn't exactly amazing). I had to wake up early to go to the doctor, so I told him to stay in my room and get some proper sleep in my bed instead. He really wanted to go to the doctor with me, so I wouldn't be alone, but I knew he was very tired and needed to sleep some more. In the end, he admitted that he was grateful that I let him sleep, because he was exhausted, lol. I just think it would have been stupid and selfish to tell him to come with me, especially knowing he hadn't slept much. I'd rather he got more sleep and felt better later (which he did), than have him come with me wherever I go, even if I know it's just going to have a bad effect on him.
He was originally going to stay until Wednesday, but he went home tonight instead, so he can sleep better in his bed. Hopefully he'll get the train on Wednesday so he can come and see me, but even if he doesn't, I won't be too bothered about it, since I'm going back to his house this weekend.
Well... that's about it! It's a rather small entry, but I just wanted to give you guys a quick update. Until next time! :D
I went to the doctor today and got a blood test. I'm feeling definitely better than I did last week, since I'm able to eat now thanks to the medicine. The doctor says I should keep taking the medicine until next time I see her, which will be next Wednesday. The medicine doesn't have major side effects, although it does make me sleepy whenever I take it - but I'd rather feel sleepy for a bit than not be able to eat anything at all.
So yeah, today I did yet another blood test. Tbh, I could have told the doctor I had a blood test in Italy already, but I figured, what the hell, let's have another one just to be sure - maybe they'll find something that my doctor didn't find in Italy. It was just a blood test anyway, it's not like I was in major pain or anything.
I'm sort of facepalming at my doctor back in Italy now, though. See, since I'm a student here in Scotland, whenever I go to the doctor I don't pay a thing, which is pretty amazing in my opinion - so not only do I not pay for the visits, but I didn't pay to get my blood test, either. Back in Italy, however? I paid 50 euro. Fifty. Five. Zero. Just to give you an idea, with 50 euro I can buy two weeks' worth of food here in the UK. Two weeks.
It wouldn't bother me so much if at least the doctor made me do some useful tests; but no, they were completely useless. I had one thing that I really wanted to get tested - I caught a bacteria back during last winter, I took medicines for it, and I wanted to check if I still had it - that was the only test that was important to me. Did the doctor get my blood tested for that bacteria? Nope. It was just a general check-up. Which, again, I would be ok with, if I hadn't had a general check-up during Christmas which showed that, except for that bacteria, there was nothing wrong with me. And unless I change my lifestyle completely from how it is now, those values are not exactly going to do a super drastic change.
So yeah, bottom line is, I spent 50 euro on a general check-up which I had already done some months back and the only thing that I actually wanted to get tested for, I did not get tested for. Two weeks worth of food literally thrown out the window.
I mean, what the heck is wrong with my doctor? She knows I'm not living at home anymore - she should know that money is the biggest concern when you live in another country and you're on your own. She knew I had this bacteria back in winter. Why the heck did she not get my blood tested for it?! It was the only thing that I was interested in; I couldn't care less about my general check-up. All the times I've had blood tests, even when years passed between them, they were always the same - they all showed that I had no allergies and that I'm perfectly normal. I know I'm perfectly normal, except for this freaking bacteria - I don't need to spend 50 freaking euro to get a confirmation that my body is doing ok!! I can see that with my own eyes, and for free!
But that's not all. My dad told the doctor about the nausea and how I couldn't eat to see what the doctor had to say or if she had any advice. And what did the doctor say? She said I'm nauseous because I'm ~worried~ about something. Yes. I feel physically sick whenever I eat because I'm worried. To which I can say only two things: 1) ok, that might be a plausible explanation, but you're a doctor, not a psychiatrist. I want a medical explanation when I go to the doctor, not something I can get off the internet myself in 10 minutes by doing a research on google; and 2) I'll be honest, I do worry. I admit I worry too much. I've been worried plenty of times in my life, but right now? I can tell you for sure I'm not worried. What should I even be worried about? Exams? I just started uni and they're in December. Essays? Not really, I plan to start working and organising them between this week and next week and I have plenty of time to hand them in. Boyfriend? Nope, I just had a lovely weekend at Andrew's house and if everything goes well, he's coming back on Wednesday to spend time with me again. So what the hell should I be worried about?? The only thing I'm slightly worried about right now tbh is the illness itself, but that's because I know I have an illness - if I didn't have it, I wouldn't be worrying about it! But ever since I've been able to eat, then I won't even worry about it, as long as I take the medicine.
So yeah, tl;dr my doctor back in Italy made me facepalm pretty hard. She's not even a bad doctor, on the contrary, I always considered her to be pretty good, but in this case... I think I'll be sticking with the Scottish doctor, thank you very much. At least she gives me medicines so I can eat and survive the day! Telling me I'm ~worried~ still won't make me magically eat, I'm afraid.
As for the weekend, it was pretty sweet. I stayed at Andrew's house, relaxed myself totally, played Harvest Moon: Sunshine Islands (I'm addicted to this game again after months - I'm getting pretty good at mining, too! My current goal is to learn how to cook wonderful stones and yeah, it's going to take awhiiiiiiiiiiiile. But I like challenges, lol!) and watched Leverage (that's right - I got Andrew addicted to Leverage! He bought me the DVDs of seasons 1 and 2 for my birthday and he really likes it. :D Now, if only his mom would stop calling it "the American Hustle"... it's not Hustle, ok? It's Leverage and it's freaking awesome! lol). It was a pretty good weekend overall. ♥
Andrew also spent the night in my room. He tried to sleep on the floor, since my bed is small for two people (but the room itself is pretty big), but because he had brought the wrong sleeping bag that wouldn't fit him, he didn't really sleep much (and the little sleep he got, well, it wasn't exactly amazing). I had to wake up early to go to the doctor, so I told him to stay in my room and get some proper sleep in my bed instead. He really wanted to go to the doctor with me, so I wouldn't be alone, but I knew he was very tired and needed to sleep some more. In the end, he admitted that he was grateful that I let him sleep, because he was exhausted, lol. I just think it would have been stupid and selfish to tell him to come with me, especially knowing he hadn't slept much. I'd rather he got more sleep and felt better later (which he did), than have him come with me wherever I go, even if I know it's just going to have a bad effect on him.
He was originally going to stay until Wednesday, but he went home tonight instead, so he can sleep better in his bed. Hopefully he'll get the train on Wednesday so he can come and see me, but even if he doesn't, I won't be too bothered about it, since I'm going back to his house this weekend.
Well... that's about it! It's a rather small entry, but I just wanted to give you guys a quick update. Until next time! :D
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The way I see it, if you like old school Harvest Moon, or even the GBA games, then you'll like DSCute too. It's basically that, but for the DS. The only thing that puts me off in that game is the fact that you have an empty field on your farm and you basically have to decide where you'd like to build barns, etc. and where you'd like to plant crops and trees. Lots of people like this feature, but I can't bring myself to like it because I'm a perfectionist and even my imaginary farm in a DS game has to be perfect, lol. But that's just me. (I like SI because everything has its place - the trees can be planted on their own island, barn & coop are not on the field where you plant crops, the greenhouse has its own little island along with the rice paddies, etc.)
I really like SI because it has new characters, there's a lot of stuff to do (I like the plot of having to raise islands, which is done by collecting sun stones in many different ways), I like the wonderful stones system (which is basically an upgrade of tools but better - you can even multiply the materials or ores you get by 5 times if you put 5 orange wonderfuls on your hammer or axe, for example, and that is really useful) and the weather system (which most players don't like... but personally I love the fact that I can just water my crops 2-3 times and then I just have to wait for them to get enough sun points to get to the next stage). It's not an easy game, there are lots of challenges (from making friends with the Harvest Sprites, to growing S-rank crops in order to win festivals and get wonderful stones, from getting ores, materials and money to upgrade the farm, to getting sun stones to raise islands etc.) and even if you're in Year 5 in the game, there will still be stuff to do! (I am approaching Year 6 and I'm improving my mining and cooking skills, so I can get accessories and cook wonderful stones. Although that might just be because I like to play Harvest Moon games slowly, I'm in no rush to get married or finish the game.)
I also played Island of Happiness (which I like to refer to as the "beta" version of SI) and Grand Bazaar for the DS. IoH was okay, but I definitely prefer SI over it. GB is also ok, but it's quite different from usual HM games (if you do a bit of research or watch some videos, you'll see why). I tried playing it, but I just wouldn't get "addicted" to it, like I usually do with HM games. I haven't tried A Tale of Two Towns for DS, so I can't talk about it, although the whole premise of having to choose between having only animals or only crops in your farm kind of puts me off - I want both of them! Don't make me choose! lol.
I wrote kind of a long comment, but anyway, tl;dr, Sunshine Islands is very worth picking up, in my opinion. :D If you have doubts, you could try watching a few walkthroughs/gameplay videos of it on youtube and see if you like the look of it!
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Harvest Moon is the best ♡ I'm waiting for a new Animal Crossing too!
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Yup, Harvest Moon is one of the most addictive and fun games I've ever played! Animal Crossing is good too, although I can end up not playing a game for months sometimes and I just couldn't enjoy AC as much because of this. When I came back to it, I always felt like I'd missed a lot of stuff and I hated that, haha.
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Cmq sono contenta di sapere che ora riesci a mangiare di nuovo senza sentirti nauseata! Spero che presto tu riesca a farlo anche senza l'aiuto dei medicinali!=)
Oh my...XD Mia cugina è una fan sfegatata degli Harvest Moon!Penso che li abbia addirittura tutti quanti,sia per Wii,DS e GameBoy!
Io li ho provati ma temo di no avere abbastanza pazienza!XD
Cmq sono contenta di sentirti e sapere che stai bene!=D *HUGS*
Ora vado a rispondere agli altri post che mi sono persa!XD
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Grazie! Lo spero presto anch'io! Devo aspettare solo una settimana adesso per gli ultimi risultati e poi il dottore mi darà delle medicine per combattere qualunque cosa ho!
Ahahah! XD Effettivamente bisogna avere un po' di pazienza con Harvest Moon, specialmente all'inizio del gioco e soprattutto se è la prima volta che giochi ad Harvest Moon! Però una volta "ingranato", si diventa quasi dipendenti da HM, o almeno, questo è quello che è successo a me! XD
E io sono contenta di sentire te! ♥ Spero che tutto stia andando bene sia al lavoro che in famiglia! :D
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Almeno te l'avessero detto subito ti saresti risparmiata una mattinata in ospedale (che non è proprio un posto piacevole) e tanti inutili esami...
Ottimo!Poi,mi raccomando,se vuoi e puoi,facci sapere i risultati!!>,< *hugs*
Temo che la pazienza non sia il mio forte quando gioco...penso che opterò per altri giochi!XD
Awh!Ma che cariiiiiiiiiina che sei! *abbracci ancora ed ancora* ♥♥♥
Sì,grazie!Qui tutto bene e nessuno di noi si può lamentare,grazie per l'interessamento!=3= ♥
PS: Ho l'intera prima stagione di Leverage e a costo di chiudere fuori di casa i miei per avere libero il lettore DVD,me la guarderò!;D
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Sicuro, ti terrò aggiornata! ♥ *hugs*
Aw, ma dai, è normale che mi interessi sapere come stai! ♥ Sono contenta di sapere che va tutto bene! :D
Ohhh, perfetto!! *___* Tra l'altro Andrew mi ha regalato le prime due stagioni in DVD per il mio compleanno e adesso quando sono a casa sua ci mettiamo a vedere Leverage non-stop... e a lui piace molto! XD E mi sa che ho fatto diventare la sua famiglia dipendente da Leverage, perché la madre e la sorella lo guardano anche quando io non ci sono! XD
Spero tanto che piaccia anche a te! ♥