Tonsillitis

This is an old video I did with Kirby Ferguson a few years ago... and this is how i'm feeling today!

Boo! I came down with tonsillitis yesterday at work. Waking up in the morning with a funny feeling in my throat I knew something was coming but hoped it would go away. (it never does)
Around 3pm the feeling was getting worse and I became dizzy and feverish. Maybe I was lucky that it was a rainy day and there were no customers.
The gift shop at Seoul tower had really cute sick masks, in various colours, I had a hard time choosing one but went with grey, cause I love neutrals! Wearing a mask when you are sick is very common here, and very considerate. I know back home people would think it strange if they saw me in one but not here, the only funny look i got was from some white tourists.
This mask also doubles as a sleeping mask, which is great because I don't have curtains and the sunlight always wakes me up early here.
So I left work early at 6pm, and went straight to bed. Yonie brought me some hot syrupy drink thats some kind of chinese medicine, but tastes sweet.
I slept right until 1pm the next day but didn't really feel any better. Yonie took me downstairs to the Vietnamese restaurant in our building for some beef pho, the spices were probably good for my throat but it hurt! She suggested we go to a masseuse to get my circulation going, but it was going to cost $40 so i was a little reluctant. She then suggested that we go to the doctor, because it would be cheaper, like $10. I thought that was kind of funny, but agreed.
The doctors office was super efficient. I only waited about 5 min in the waiting room, spending most of the time trying to make out a large sign advertising a weight loss treatment they offered (injection). The doctor asked me my symptoms, (yonie translated) then looked in my throat and said "tonsillitis!" he then stuck a little video camera pen in my throat and I could actually see the infection! I took a picture of it with my cell phone.

The doctor wrote up a prescription, and then the nurse brought me to another room and gestured for me to pull down my pants and bend over on a cot. Yonie said: she's going to give you a shot! I made a nervous moan and so the nurse slapped my ass a few times so i wouldn't feel the prick going in...which I found humorous and laughed.
Yonie told me to rub my butt hard, because otherwise it would really hurt later. It was already starting to hurt so I started rubbing. The doctors appointment cost me $15 which was pretty good considering I got the shot and I didn't have health insurance.
Down in the pharmacy I was given a gargle solution, and some antibiotics, a whole bunch of vitamin c and some more chinese medicine drink, and that cost me another $15. I was pretty impressed at how cheap it was, and how quickly the whole experience was.
My medicine will only last 3 days, and I was reading online that tonsilllitis can be 7 to 10 days, so we'll see how all of this plays out, but right now Im pretty optimistic, considering its 9:22 pm and already my throat doesn't hurt that much. If all goes well I may head back to that doctors office and get the weighloss shot after all.