Today I had to get a PPD test...for tuberculosis!?! wtf. Anyway, just an update for my always faithful reader (Gail), about two weeks ago I noticed a white, milky dot on my iris and it's been irritating my eye since then so I went to student health services. They did not know what it was so they referred me to the Boston Medical Center's walk in clinic. So after riding the bus to a relatively questionable neighborhood, (all with only one contact in), I managed to find the place but got lost looking for the right building. Finally after a half hour of waiting in a room with several people who curiously were missing the same arm, I got in to see a real eye doctor who proceeded to poke and stab my eye and shine intense, heavenly lights in it till I couldn't stand it. Her diagnosis: an abrasion on the cornea. So she gave me a prescription and told me to come back tomorrow and after going to the pharmacy and dropping it off, I had to wait an hour for it to be filled. Where did I wait you ask?? Well, if you said on a bench outside the ER (with the candlestick), you know me too well...What an hour that was. Countless ambulances pulled up with gun shot victims and other victims of less heinous injuries. I was excited! Some action. Then I wandered to the pharmacy and had to wait 20 minutes to get the insurance straightened out and I got my eye drops! Woo hoo! Problem solved=not. Went back today on the same bus and walked the same blocks through the rough neighborhood and finally see a different doc who proceeds to poke and prod my eye some more. After using a bunch of technical jargon, he informs me that there is a reaction to natural occurring bacteria in my eye AND there is a slight possibility I have TB. Wait. What??!? Don't I need to be coughing up blood right now? I also got new and improved eye drops with steroids in them and I had to go back to the school clinic to get my lovely PPD test. Still half blind and navigating like a pro. Test results on Friday, eye appointment on Tuesday. Hopefully I make it home alive...
Happier news: English was cancelled tonight, I (finally) turned in my application to Fenway and met a nice guy who is going to mention me for a job, and I went with my friggin rockin' new friends to a comedy club last night. Hilariousness ensued both from the comics and from our tipsy asses.
Only 13 weeks left to fit everything in. I gotta get moving.
H.
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