An Experience..

Sickness kind of warped me for a entire week, and I thought I thought the frusterations that had employed me to act the way I did. I wanted to figure almost everything out by myself and didn't want to bother anyone about it, bad idea on my part.I feel like the experience I had gone through shows a classic example of why scaffolding is so important. Since I was trying to find a nearby clinic on my own , it was a little trickier getting around the city which led me in tears several times and discouraged me sometimes to even take that extra step. I actually had started feeling sick before my sick week but I had decided that with time it would pass. Usually, this concept works with virals which I ended up with, however with no conclusive evidence it seemed like a diagnosis that was given out like napkins . I had actually gone to over 4 clinics until someone had some idea of what was going on with me, thank god for blood tests and some basis on english! I was apalled at some of the things the doctors would throw out there, without any sort of proper assessment tool. They probably have to deal with all sorts of different issues when dealing with a foreign patient, it definately can be a trip but that doesn't mean that you can make someone absolutely parnoid of their wellbeing without following procedural knowledge. It seemed though at the end of all my doctor visits, I had beleived I had almost everything wrong with my bodily functions. Going through something like this made me realize that trying to employ ones procedural knowledge in a foreign country does not always do it. As much as I wanted to be nice about the whole thing I was risking my health and so it was worth the tears and frusterations, could I have improved the experience, for sure I definately should have told someone a while before about being sick. They say you live and learn though.