Sunday, May 24, 2009

I am Allergic?!

Yes, I am allergic to something I haven't been aware of for the past 14 years. I'm allergic to something that is technically still unconfirmed. It can't be confirmed unless they run tests on my blood and since I don't want any of my blood to be taken, it wouldn't matter whether or not it was confirmed. My dad told me that he was allergic to something known as 'alcohol'. Well, alcohol comes in many forms, so I don't know if its a specific alcohol, or all alcohols in general, he just said 'alcohol', period.

So there it is, I might be genetically allergic to alcohol. And it might have been the doings of the punch I drank during Dr Immanuel's Session break time. The mysterious doings I would say. Come to think of it, I was already feeling weird before eating anything, but that was probably just because the air-con was super cold and I was freezing. Coming outside the room was just a massive change in temperature and made my body feel weird, which is perfectly normal.

It was a packed lunch, so I started off by eating the Bee Hoon, melted chocolate Eclair and the other funny thing I have no clue about (it sorta tasted sour). Anyway, I felt thirsty after eating dry Bee Hoon, so I went to get the punch. I took a sip, put it back on my chair, and continued eating. I started to feel abit itchy, but thought nothing of it, since it was only abit.

It was only natural that when you feel itchy or hot, you drink more right? So that's what I did, and the itch got worse and worse. I was so itchy that I gulped the whole drink down and threw it in the bin just in time for coming back to the session. I didn't finish the rest of the lunch though, I was too itchy to notice. But once I got back, I started tingling all over. Much like the Fungal Infection, but only worse. It wasn't just the armpit and the groin area, but literally everywhere.

I was shocked, and basically didn't know what to do. Well, I knew one thing I shouldn't do and that was to scratch everywhere, because that wouldn't solve the problem but just complicate things. I thought it was some kind of super serious fungal infection, because I had one of those before just two weeks ago. And so Ern Xu told me that I should zao because there were some form of spots forming on my face as well, and I could feel it.

I decided to zao, without so much as a word to everyone else, except to Naishad, "Look at my face!" I didn't know what else to say, but he simply replied, "I know, I know." And then ushered me out as if he thought it was contagious, lol. But then it meant that it must have been quite obvious, so I began covering my face with my hands, which were also starting to get all bumpy and zombie-like.

I borrowed a friend's phone at the SR Block to call my Dad. He noticed it too at first sight, so I thought it was pretty bad. At the SR Block steps later on, I asked Hua Yang who was also there and we could see it from 3 metres away. Both of my arms looked zombified, which was quite cool and horrifying at the same time. If I didn't feel so itchy and hot all over, then I probably would have thought it to be cool.

But it was itchy and hot all over, so I thought that I was going to die. Like some kind of zombie infestation were it starts eating up your skin and your meat and so on, like leprosy or something. So with these thoughts of utter doom in my head, the only thing I could do was pray, right? And so I did. I felt quite bad, because I only prayed when I thought it was like a life-and-death situation, I probably should pray more often.

But coming back to the story, my Dad picked up around 15 minutes later, and I saw that half of my left hand seemed back to normal. The other half was still zombified though, and I was still feeling itchy all over. We went straight to our family clinic and got the diagnosis of an allergic reaction. Great. That sucks, I thought i would never be allergic to anything. But I guess everyone has his weaknesses.

Dr Lee gave me an injection on my right buttcheek, which was kind of awkward because of several reasons. Number one, I've never got injected on my butt before, like seriously. It was the first time I heard that the injection was stronger and doing it on my arm would mean superb amounts of pain. Well, when it was done, there wasn't much pain. The doctor said it was because all the fat was stored up in that area. Another revelation: I have fats! OMG.

Number two reason, I don't usually undress in front of females. I really don't. They discourage you from doing it in school, otherwise why else would they ban changing in the class room? But anyway, here am I doing it in front of the doctor, who was even holding it still so that the injection would go in properly. Ok, so that was not the first time someone as touched my butt. I realize that many times including the time of my birth, there must have been an instance when my parents were changing my diapers that my bare butt was touched, so that's okay. But it was the first time that someone touched my butt WITH my permission.

Yeah, so other than it being awkward, it was also awesome. Because it actually worked. Dr Lee put some sleeping drug inside it so when I got back home, the first thing I did was...? Sleep? No, haha. You got fooled. I went to bathe before hitting the sack. Lol, I mean come on, you can't sleep in your school uniform can you? And the cool thing is that the moment I woke up, there was no more itchyness, no more heat radiating off my body, no more spots, and no more thoughts about impending doom.

Yup, I was back to normal. I still got an MC for the following friday, so I took the day off anyway and rested at home. And by rest I mean drinking lots of water and playing a selection of computer games. Oh and great tomorrow is like the Chinese Gong Han Test. Going to get like 12/20, again. I've gotten that mark for countless practice Gong Hans already.

Not only that, I discovered Physics practical is also on for the last week of school, and that Social Studies project is due next week. OMG, taking MCs may not be such a good idea after all. I also missed the RLP form deadline, missed the collection of my Raffles Bandana, and of course didn't get my latest practice Gong Han back. Oh well...
kaizersabre performed alchemy @ 10:31 PM