The Toad

I was sick for 2 days.

Rashes and humongous blotches appeared on my hands and tummy right after I finished my dinner on Wednesday. I was half human, half toad by midnight. Don’t even mention the purging. Urgh!

The GP mentioned something about allergy and told me to go easy on the seafood intake. I had the same symptoms last weekend after I had a generous helping of cockles sambal. However, I did not consume any seafood on Wednesday. We had briyani and chicken for dinner.

So I was off on Thursday. Had nothing more than plain rice and vege soup the whole day. I thought I was safe. Well as always – I thought wrong.

I headed to the office on Friday morning and saw some rashes on my arms but decided to ignore it. By the time I got in the office, I was again – half toad. Not only that, the itch was really, really bad.

I couldn’t wait much longer and headed straight to the clinic but had to wait for the doctor to officially start her day. In the rush to see the doctor, I didn’t realize it was only 8.15am. Geez.

When I finally get to see her, I was almost a toad. She wasted no time and ordered her assistant to prepare the necessary. One jab on the butt and I was ordered to leave the office before the effect kicked in.

Being the stubborn me, I decided to check my emails, did some replying and called some people before packing and leaving the office. I was lucky that the traffic had eased a bit. Took me 20 minutes to reach my destination but not without fighting the urge to doze off while doing so. I was driving at 40kmph at one point. Hehe.

Spent the day at home, enjoying the after effect of the jab and meds. Zzzzz....