12.04.2004

<sick and stressed>

march and april were such stressful months.

2 hours sleep last thursday, followed by a full 20-hour work day the next day had me feeling like this:

i was terribly sick too.

down with a cough, i went to the sino-japanese hospital , in need of medication and sick leave from work

but when they found that i was running a temperature, they insisted that it's the government policy that i take a blood test just to make sure i'm not a SARS carrier. 'oh it's just a prick on the fingertip'

but no, when i got there, this so-called nurse collected rmb20 from me and took out this big, off-white dirty looking tube (no sanitization, no brand new plastic cover, nothing), to want to take a bag of blood. so i protested and tried to assert my rights as a patitent to reject any form of 'treatment' i was uncomfortable with. but the nurse insisted that if i don't do that, i can't see the doctor. the reason for them to do that is to be 'responsible to the society; and if i can't accept taking a blood test, i can't see a doctor and have to go home

what crap! i questioned her - how's it being responsible if u let a fever patient off without giving treatment, and letting her go on spreading germies to everyone else. i left in a puff. condition fot worse the next day and so i spent a ton on medical at a REAL clinic the next day.

there, the doctor was explaining to me how much $ the government was getting out of these bloodtests.

anyways, i've been telling myself to stop complaining abt china and be nice to everyone.

okay, i will.

maybe tommorrow.