I haven't blogged for the longest time because as usual, I have been busy or sometimes, lazy. Recently, I have been staying in the lab up until 10pm or 1030pm and i reach home at about 11. I will have a presentation next week, not in Japan, but in my country, with my professor. And i am sooo excited about it. needless to say, i want to impress all the people who would be listening to me during that presentation. I dont want to JUST PRESENT. I want to PRESENT.
However, as i have planned to finish my target molecule in three remaining weeks before the presentation day, I got sick last weekend, which made me skip a lab day and thus i could not finish my compound anymore. It feels as if i skipped two days actually, because last tuesday, I didnt do any work. I fixed some documents for my scholarship application and enrollment. Which leaves me with a few more days to start panicking.
No, im not gonna panic. I know its impossible to finish the compound in a few days. For crying out loud, its next week! The best thing i can possibly do now is prepare a very very nice introduction which would capture their imagination, and well not dwell so much with the results. "Its not important for the audience anyway, the more important thing for them is the purpose of the research," as my mouse professor said the other day. (oddly, i call him mouse because whenever i see him i think he looks like one).
so, nuff said about the presentation. I actually wanted to start blogging again last sunday. since my indonesian friend told me to update my blog and that she would check it once in a while. Well, that gives me an encouragement. haha! unfortunately, last sunday, I think I ate fish and some rice for dinner. It didnt taste quite odd. I mean, it tasted a bit strange but i thought its not the "expired taste." It was acceptable.
I finished almost the whole plate of it. After about an hour, I started to feel soooo dizzy. I felt like riding a huge amusement park ride for more than five times. I looked at the time and it was just 830 or 9pm. Perhaps i was feeling sleepy. But how can i feel so sleepy its still too early! I tried to watch a few videos to convince myself that i wasnt nauseous. I also recorded myself singing and acting out some musical pieces from Les Miserables, Miss Saigon, and other songs. But around 930 I think, I really felt I had to throw up. I had to let this out. I tried to hold it in, until i couldnt any longer. I rushed to the toilet and started to vomit the culprit. i felt relieved for a few minutes and i thought it was over. After a few minutes i started to feel nauseous again and i threw up again. This pattern repeated for three times. at about 12 midnight, i though it was over and i started to lie in bed. I thought i let out all the fish and rice i ate. i tried to watch some videos to keep my mind off the dizziness. around 1 i closed my eyes and tried to sleep off the dizziness away. I could not sleep. 2am and i was still awake. In fact, by 2 am, I could not even speak. I mean i could speak but not so much because i felt so sick. I felt like if i spoke a lot, i would throw up again.
I called my parents (good God theyre still awake), to ask them what i should do. I am alone in my apartment and i dont know what to do. I dont have porridge. I dont have anything except heavy food, which needs some cooking. They told me instructions like drink warm tea or warm water and i followed them. For the next two hours i was throwing up continually in the toilet. Even the hot tea i drank and the warm water mixed with some salt -- I barfed them all out.
so about 4am, I finally felt a bit relieved, but my stomach was quite painful because of throwing up. my throat and mouth is also tired and tastes funny. I was exhausted and i just wanted to sleep. I cant possibly go to lab tomorrow.
The next day i woke up at 8am, I was thinking to inform my boss that i couldnt make it to lab today, or at least i will be late for work, and come in the afternoon. I cooked porridge for myself (its my first time to cook porridge) and about 930am i called my boss through his mobile phone. He wasnt picking up. I didnt want to call the laboratory to inform the students of my condition, its quite embarrassing. so i called the "mouse prof." Turns out, he was also sick. I could hear his sickly voice as he told me he caught colds. He told me i could rest in my home for the whole day and i didnt have to come to school. Good thing he told that to me, I was planning to go to school in the afternoon. Later that afternoon i realized i couldnt work. I was too weak.
I went out of the house around 2 pm to buy something to eat and buy some yoghurt and bread and fruits and Pocari Sweat. haha! I need the electrolytes. Yea, I could recover that day. I needed one day to recover and the next day, i was back in the lab. my mom told me that i was lucky, cause some people they dont recover easily from food poisoning and in some cases people have to be taken to the hospital. yea, I'm one lucky girl.
Okay so thats the gist of what has happened.
Gotta get working now,,, ill update more later... :D
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