I'm A Bad Patient
Date: Oct 4th, 2006 7:21:14 am - Subscribe
Mood: sickly
Something I read today: prostitution is the oldest profession
I'm feeling sick, again. In literally the fifth time in the last two months I've been sick. Sinus, headaches, migraines, fatigue, nausea, sore throats etc etc. I'm 22 and on more medication than seems natural for one my age. Open my medicine cabinet and I look like an old woman. I feel like an old woman.
The worst bit is, I may loose my job over this. A casual has no rights to anything when it comes to being sick. If you don't work, you don't get paid. If you don't work for long enough, you dont come back. I totally understand how this is for a business. It just feels like complete bastardry when you're on the receiving end.
And as if that isn't the worst of it.. I'm going to flunk out of my uni degree if something doesn't give way soon. Either the sickness, the job is going to give way.. I don't know in which order or how but somehow it's going to destroy my chances of finishing this year off at uni. The idea of dropping out of uni this semester kills me because a) it goes on your permanent record with no mention of illness, you could just be a big fat drop out for all it shows, b) over one and a half grand goes down the drain, c) i can't start up again until second semster next year. So you see, dropping out of uni is far too costly for me in more ways than one.
I'm in a pickle my friend. They can't pinpoint a reason for me being so sick all the time other than plain old bad luck. If they can't pin point a reason, I'll lose my job sooner rather than later. If they can't pin point a reason for it all, I can't take a course of action with uni that can alleviate my problem (ie. chronic sicknesses and so on can sometimes get you secial consideration, bad luck does not).
Oh what a tangle web is weaved, when first the sickness is conceived..
I'm so screwed, it's noones fault, and there's no way out.
It's time like these I understand the pressure my friend must have been under when she threatened to throw herself off the top of her roof, just because she had an assignment due.. and she was sick.
How do I get out of this?
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