Day 19 - Get down with the sickness

So......... today was kind of shit. Let me explain why;

I woke up in the morning, and my left ear was INCREDIBLY painful. I kind of knew straight away that I had an ear infection, because I had only like 8-9 months ago, so i knew I had to deal with that today.

I went and spoke to the guy at the reception for my hostel, and he said that there are no GP's open on a weekend, and that I could TRY, but he highly doubted that a chemist would help me. I was best to go to the hospital.

So, I headed to the market to meet up with Maria and Maxine as planned, and had some food, little bettered prawns, sangria and then a chocolate covered, cream filled croissant (YUM!)

Anyway, after that I went to a chemist, to be told that they wont help me with anything to do with my ears, I had to be properly diagnosed.

So to the hospital I went.

Upon arriving I was told that I would most likely have to wait 3 hours and pay 200 euro to see a doctor. I said that i would just go see a GP, but they told me a GP wont see me because I don't have a health insurance card (although i do have health insurance, I was never provided with a card that can be charged directly) So I waited.....

And waited....

And waited....

FINALLY I got to see a doctor for like 10 minutes who instantly diagnosed me with an ear infection and prescribed me drops. Which to anyone who knows me well, knows that that's one of my biggest phobias, putting things in my ears :(

So, I paid (211 Euros) and got my prescription, and went to pick up the medication, some ibuprofen, ans ear drops, which combined cost me 3.50 euros, cheap right??

Anyway I headed miserably back to my hostel and suffered through ear drops :(

My roommate Camilla wanted to cheer me up a little, so we headed to see the 'Magic fountain'

Oh my goodness!!! There was this HUGE fountain, with Lights and music, it was a full on show, it was sooo spectacular, I was very impressed.

Anyway, we headed home, and stopped for burger king and KFC ice cream lol.

Then I went to sleep, and woke up about a gazillion times because this guy in my room snores like SOOOOOOO loud you would not believe. I also woke up this morning with an incredibly sore through coughing up gunk :( So... not the best few days for me...

Annywhoo that's a story for tomorrow's blog.

I love and miss you all :(

Things that made me happy today; Magic fountain

Things that made me sad today; Hospitals, money, medication, and pain :(