Taiwanese Cold
I got my first (and hopefully last f0r a while) cold in Taipei a couple days ago. My lungs hurt really bad from all the smog and what not so I went to a doctor yesterday. My roommate Kristy had a sore throat and sinus pressure so she went too.
One of the Chinese teachers (CT's) from our branch took us to a little clinic around the corner. We waited to see the doctor in the back. We entered and he had us sit in a little dentist type chair that didn't recline. He asked us questions and typed on the computer, maybe ordering drugs while we sat there? He spoke a little English but when we had a prblem, the CT translated for us. Then he put this long metal tube in my nose and sprayed something. Rubbed a q-tip with brown stuff on it on my tongue, sprayed throat spray in my throat and then gave me a pink tablet to let dissolve on my tongue. He did the same thing to Kristy, but sucked something out of her nose with a weird device.
I have a regular cold, but she has an upper respitory infection. Now we both have to take about 7 pills three times a day for three days each and I have to take cough syrup too. It's kind of funny. The durgs come packaged in little paper sacks with cartoon charcters on them.
Good times!
One of the Chinese teachers (CT's) from our branch took us to a little clinic around the corner. We waited to see the doctor in the back. We entered and he had us sit in a little dentist type chair that didn't recline. He asked us questions and typed on the computer, maybe ordering drugs while we sat there? He spoke a little English but when we had a prblem, the CT translated for us. Then he put this long metal tube in my nose and sprayed something. Rubbed a q-tip with brown stuff on it on my tongue, sprayed throat spray in my throat and then gave me a pink tablet to let dissolve on my tongue. He did the same thing to Kristy, but sucked something out of her nose with a weird device.
I have a regular cold, but she has an upper respitory infection. Now we both have to take about 7 pills three times a day for three days each and I have to take cough syrup too. It's kind of funny. The durgs come packaged in little paper sacks with cartoon charcters on them.
Good times!
posted by CJ at 7:59 PM
1 Comments:
Cassie - sorry to hear you are sick!
Hmm, a long metal tool stuck up your nose, and sucking something out of your friends... sounds oddly interesting. That mystical eastern medicine... :)
I just got time to read up on your time in Taiwan thus far. Look forward to reading about your adventures there!
Jennifer Musial
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