Post by ChinaGurl on Feb 26, 2005 17:59:41 GMT 7
Chinese medicine, and the doctors that dispense it.
I just went downstairs to my Chinese doctor to show him some lesions on my gums and he said it's an infection, and then he yelled at me because my cold isn't better yet. I said, "I know, but it's not too bad." He said, "I KNOW."
Then he proceeded to dispense what looked like one of everything. I have to take 1 roxithromyecin, 2 small white pills, 2 small yellow pills, and 8 big yellow pills three times a day for the next 2 days.
Before I went down, I wrote down the Chinese for Herpes so I could show it to him and ask if that's what it is. You know, it's not uncommon for people to get Herpes Simplex 1 inside their mouths (as I learned this evening on the internet). When I showed him, he said, "WHO TOLD YOU THIS IS WHAT IT IS?" "No one," I replied, sheepishly. "I was just afraid that that's what it might be."
Now that I think of it, I did have that trademark tingling on that side of my mouth the other day... you know, the tingling that comes on before you get a cold sore (aka HS1).
As he gave me my medicine, he said, "Don't smoke." "Ok," I agreed. "DID YOU HEAR ME?" he asked. "Don't worry, I want to quit anyway," I said, threw my 8 yuan on the counter and left.
I figure he hates me. I mean, I never follow his instructions. I'm very vocal about hating having needles and drips. I don't mind suffering through a cold rather than wasting 3 hours a day to have 'medicine' course through my veins.
It's probably only a matter of time before he slips something laced with pennicillin into my green paper packet of pills.
I just went downstairs to my Chinese doctor to show him some lesions on my gums and he said it's an infection, and then he yelled at me because my cold isn't better yet. I said, "I know, but it's not too bad." He said, "I KNOW."
Then he proceeded to dispense what looked like one of everything. I have to take 1 roxithromyecin, 2 small white pills, 2 small yellow pills, and 8 big yellow pills three times a day for the next 2 days.
Before I went down, I wrote down the Chinese for Herpes so I could show it to him and ask if that's what it is. You know, it's not uncommon for people to get Herpes Simplex 1 inside their mouths (as I learned this evening on the internet). When I showed him, he said, "WHO TOLD YOU THIS IS WHAT IT IS?" "No one," I replied, sheepishly. "I was just afraid that that's what it might be."
Now that I think of it, I did have that trademark tingling on that side of my mouth the other day... you know, the tingling that comes on before you get a cold sore (aka HS1).
As he gave me my medicine, he said, "Don't smoke." "Ok," I agreed. "DID YOU HEAR ME?" he asked. "Don't worry, I want to quit anyway," I said, threw my 8 yuan on the counter and left.
I figure he hates me. I mean, I never follow his instructions. I'm very vocal about hating having needles and drips. I don't mind suffering through a cold rather than wasting 3 hours a day to have 'medicine' course through my veins.
It's probably only a matter of time before he slips something laced with pennicillin into my green paper packet of pills.