HI GUYS!
So currently, here I am, back in my hometown (I’ll explain) blogging to you about this “event’ that happened to me last night.
Well, you see, I recently started a new job working as a host at a restaurant and ya know, doing typical host duties, such as answering phones, seating guests, doing random checkup’s throughout the restaurant, and basically being the first face that everyone sees when they walk in.
So, this entire week, I have felt absolutely awful. I haven’t been sick since BACK when I was in high school and that was when I had swine flu (EW). I came down with some weird sinus infection (as I’ve self diagnosed myself) in hand with a sore throat (possibly could be strep? taking a wild guess here). So, silly oh silly me, decided that I would be perfectly fine to go into work just with a tylenol and some throat drops to try and attempt to work my 7 hour shift for the evening.
Little did I know….
I truly, really did feel fine. I mean, my definition of fine. I was able to walk and talk to people as I have been doing all week with my classes and my friends on my floor, I seemed what was okay- just short of a lost voice and a little bit of congestion- other than that nobody would really know how awful I was feeling on the inside, and I suppose I didn’t even know either.
So, I drive all the way to work, feeling fine, get out of my car, walk into the restaurant, get changed into my uniform, come back up to the host stand, and start making conversation with a few of my other staff members.
Then it all hit me.
20 minutes into my shift I was overwhelmed with this heat wave. I literally felt like I was on fire. I was sweating profusely out of every pore in my body (so what it felt like), to the point where I was just so overheated and so overwhelmed that my head started spinning. And once my head started spinning, I knew it was game over for me.
Everything started spinning and I became dizzier and dizzier by the second until I knew that if I didn’t run to go sit down, that I was going to pass out.
Next thing I knew I was seeing stars.
So, I raced to the first available booth that was open and I just went and sat down and literally knew that the moment I stood up it was over. I called my manager over, we sat, we talked about it, and she got me a glass of water to help.
I knew at that moment I just needed to leave work and take care of myself and just truly rest because my body was pushed way to far to its limit. I told them I couldn’t possibly stay, which I felt terrible about since I gave up my shifts for the weekend, and I called my Mom for help.
So here I am, back all the way at my hometown that way my family can cook me deliciously nutrious food and I can sit and lounge in peace and rest until I have to go to my doctor’s appointment to get the antibiotics that’ll really heal me.
It has been really wonderful eating something other than soup for once this week. But always remember to take your health into your own hands no matter the situation and that you can only do as much as you think you can do.
-Ash
HI MY NAME IS ASH 