spring break eve
Thursday March 10th, 2011
So it’s the day before we’re supposed to leave for Spain for spring break and I just got back from eventful visit to the doctors office. Dr. Kerr, the English-speaking doctor in Florence, put me on five different medications in hope to make me feel better over night. I have been feeling subpar since the third week of the semester and today I was finally convinced to see the doctor out of fear. A friend told me that if I flew when my ears weren’t popped, I could blow out my eardrum and go deaf. Since I had all the symptoms to a sinus infection and an ear infection, I practically ran to see the doctor after class. Professionally he had to tell me not to board that plane tomorrow, but personally he said he would do it because; “Barcelona is amazing”. He wrote my prescription for five different medications and I went downstairs to the pharmacy and picked them up. I am all packed and ready to go to Spain to have the best spring break of my life, but I am genuinely scared about flying while I’m sick. What if my eardrum blows out! I’m going to bed hoping I will feel better the morning. It’s hard to sleep because I am anticipating delicious Spanish tapas and sangria. One of my friends from high school is studying abroad in Madrid and although he will coincidentally be in Italy while we are in Spain, he wrote us a list of things we have to do and places we have to see.