I don't mean to bore you with endless posts about what I'm going through at the moment. It's just that somehow, a part of me is hoping that by sharing my predicament with friends, I'll feel a little better.
Just when I claimed that I'm virtually bacteria free, I was told that I have to be admitted in a hospital for observation and treatment. I have been having trouble with my throat since Sunday but was only able to see an ENT specialist today (the ENT doctor that I was supposed to see yesterday was still on vacation). I'm once again voiceless and enduring the pain brought by my tonsils, pharynx, larynx and what have you. We have not yet identified if it's bacterial or viral. All I know is, my heart is at great risk right now (I was diagnosed with a heart ailment almost a decade ago in conjunction with RA which I was diagnosed with in 2000). I wish I could explain what's going on in my life right now but all this is too complicated to me to explain to other people. If you're a medical practitioner and have knowledge about rheumatic diseases, you'd probably have an inkling of what I may be going through at this point. Until I am discharged from the hospital or until I have fully recovered, Practical Vanity will rest in supreme silence and solitude. Your posts about everything beautiful will be missed. Until then...
A beautiful evening to all the beautiful ladies out there!
After a good five weeks (or more) of pulling all-nighters for work, I'm glad to say that I'm finally back. Work has taken up so much of my waking hours, so much that I'm often left with little to no time to rest after working for long hours. Those past weeks have been some of the most tiresome and stressful weeks that I've ever drowned myself into since I started working three years ago and I am so glad that it's all over (fingers crossed). I don't ever want to go home at 2 or 3 in the morning especially when my beloved is not around to pick me up from work. It's extremely horrifying to be out at that time of the night especially when you're going home alone. Thank God I have a coworker who's ever so thoughtful to even bother driving me home everyday for two weeks when he lives in another city far away from mine. If it weren't for him, I wouldn't know what would've already happened to me.
Another thing that I'm really thankful for is my health. Just a week ago while I was on my way to work, I ran a temperature and lost my voice to what my sister (she's a doctor) calls as tonsillopharyngitis --- inflammation of the tonsils and pharynx in layman's terms. My body temperature quickly shot up to 39degrees, which unfortunately, I had to endure until I got home that night. Because my tonsils and pharynx were inflamed and swollen, I wasn't able to speak for an entire week. I tried and struggled to speak on some days but it only made matters worse. So in the end, I had no choice but to type/write everything that I had and wanted to say lest I never get my voice back. Also, my appetite dropped a huge notch because swallowing anything, even my own saliva, was pure torture. After an entire week of gulping countless nyquils and dayquils (the only medicines that bring my temperature down quicker than any other), and co-amoxiclav(my sister prescribed this after she found out that I was self-medicating with erythromycin for one day) and puffing seretide (I also had asthma), I'm glad to announce that I'm virtually bacteria-free(doesn't sound good, eh?). Those streptococci bacteria got me really really bad this time. Now that the swelling and inflammation have already gone down, I will be making plans to see an EENT specialist to have my tonsils finally removed. This is something I should've done ages ago but kept putting it off because I'm a scaredy-cat. I know that it's a really quick and easy procedure but I have never gone under the knife and I'm hella scared to. However, I guess it's time I put my brave face on and get this done and over with. We'll see how it goes when I finally get it done.
Beginning this month, I should have a wee bit of extra time to do some other things that are in no way related to work. Hence, I should be able to have a few posts up here and there, especially the ones that have been in my drafts folder since February. There's gonna be quite a handful to expect from Practical Vanity this month so stay tuned for all that.
Meanwhile, I'd like to thank all of you for your continued support to me and to my blog even in my absence. I appreciate all the sweet and thoughtful messages I received while I was away. To my new followers, welcome to Practical Vanity, and I hope that you'd keep coming back for product reviews, FOTDs, and what not.
I'm sorry I rambled too much. I just... eh... really love details. When I tell a story, I make sure to include all the details to it. I'm sure you all can relate to me; this is a female characteristic anyway, and we're all females! Now I seriously have to stop.
Thank you so much for reading the whole thing (if you did. if you didn't, no biggie) and for keeping up with me. I should get back to blogging shortly.
