not much has happened in the last week. started feeling icky on monday, couldn't eat... didn't feel so bad by wednesday, but still could barely eat anything, so I went to the doctor... the chinese medical system is quite different. there are no family doctors - they're all at hospitals. it seems very efficient, though - I went, saw a doctor, got a blood test that took about 10 minutes, went back to the doctor (spent the longest time waiting for her because she'd mysteriously disappeared, perhaps for lunch or something), she prescribed some medicine and we picked it up a few minutes later. one of the medicines was an IV thingy, though. ick. they use those a lot here. we had to go register for some kind of residence permit that day, so later I had to come back to the hospital to actually take the IV. I don't like needles... having something stuck into my hand for an hour and a half is rather uncomfortable. it was hard not to scratch it. felt erally weird at first, too.<br>
anyways, after that I did feel better. I skipped all my classes the next day and just rested.. I've been trying not to make things worse. I can eat a bit now, but still not a normal amount, and my stomach makes *really* loud noises in the evening. hopefully it'll be back to normal soon.<br>
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