The Curse

Honesty is an important quality. To be honest this is not a blog post. It’s just a filler because my other blog post, well, it’s taking a while. I meant to put it up ages ago but as soon as you read it you will know why or how I kept working on it. So yes, it already was a very time consuming blog post, but then I also turned sick on top of all of it. Since Sunday I felt very nauseous but it was still alright. I went to the longest running play in Australia, called the Ship That Never Was, and made a new friend there. His name is David and he is an actor in the play as well as a tour guide on the boat. I can’t make out wether he is 50 or 8 years old but time will show his true amount of wrinkles.

Monday was horrible. During my breakfast shift I felt incredibly sick, then spent six hours on the couch in pain until Dee said I can’t be off and have to go in anyway. I therefore worked for two and a half more hours. Tuesday I was off in the morning and went to the doctors. Before beginning of February the surgery was only open twice a week but now there is a general doctor in town five days a week! And he has become my favorite doctor of all time. His name is Oswell and he is black and that already is a bonus. After all the cool doctors in movies and shows are always black, that’s just how it is. He has a very calm voice and an interesting life too! He always gets sent to different little cities and sometimes, they are so small that he is the only doctor in town and when there is any sort of problem it’s him who has to take care of it. Sometimes he said he worries about taking too long of a shower in case someone has a heart attack and he needs to revive them. To me that sounds quite stressful. 

Anyhow, Oswell suggested I probably ate something wrong and that it would leave by itself. It didn’t though and after I almost fainted at work on Thursday I made another appointment and had a longer talk with him. His diagnose: I did eat something wrong which upset my stomach. The reason my symptoms kept getting worse or less and kept changing from nausea to cramps to lightheadedness was because I seem to suffer from stress and anxiety. He prescribed a strong anti acid and a tablet against nausea and lightheadedness and advised me not to worry. This is always easier said than done, especially when I don’t know what I am worrying about exactly!

So, this has been my week and I hope it will clear up a little this weekend. Below you will find out what I look like when I am not majorly stressed or anxious.

Your Skipper.