Don't you forget about me

I thought that it was about time that I did a blog for the past month because so much has happened, I'm sure I will forget some of it but I will try to remember as much as I can.

About 2-3 weeks ago on a Thursday night I ended going to hospital because my wrist was just in pure throbbing pain and had been like that for three days and I just got to the point where i couldn't take anymore. So my dad took me up to the brand new multi million pound hospital (which is massive) and when I saw how many people were sat in the waiting room I almost walked out. I think I was first seen about 40 minutes after arriving and I was only asked basic questions like what was wrong with me and how long I'd been in pain as well as what time I'd last taken pain killers and what they were and am I allergic to anything. I was then told that there was a 90 minute wait and was told to go back and sit in the waiting area. I wasn't pleased about waiting again and wanted to go home but I thought that it was best I waited and the good news was I only had to wait 30-40 minutes before another nurse called me. I was then taken around the corner to sit in a smaller waiting area with about 4 other people, I was sat there about 10-15 minutes before a doctor came and got me. I told the doctor what was wrong with me and it was hard to communicate with him because his English wasn't very good, he then looked at my wrist and asked questions and squeezed my arm in the most painful places. - why do doctors always squeeze where it hurts and ask if it hurts when your there making noises to indicate your in pain? it's so annoying!! - Anyway he decides I've got tondonitis and gets a nurse to put the ugliest split on my hand/wrist area and tells me what pain killers to take before dismissing me. I thought he would of xrayed me at least but he didn't and sent me home. The pain didn't actually go so I went to see my mum the next day and got some strong pain killers off her, the pain killers made me feel really sick.
It's a couple of weeks later and my wrist is still in pain. Some times I can't feel the pain but times i can like I can now and it's not a nice pain. I will admit I've barely been wearing my split because it's ugly and uncomfortable too and in the heat it gets wet and then becomes uncomfortable. In it's place I've been wearing an elasticated bandage which helps at times. I feel the pain should of gone but I've not given it time to heal because I am using it all the time and I forget until I pick something heavy up and feel extreme pain in my wrist. I feel I should go and see my doctor and see what he says to me because I need it to heal but I can't wear the splint all the time because I can't type with it on and I will doing two assignments in the next week so I need to be able to type. I also can't sleep with the splint on because It's very uncomfortable. I know I should start wearing the splint again because my wrist needs six weeks to get over the worst of the injury and then longer to fully heal and I'm preventing that from happening by not taking care of my wrist at this painful time.

Over the last 6 weeks I've probably spent 4 weeks of it ill and I am sick to death of being ill all the time. Last year I was ill a lot and there was a time when I was ill almost non stop for three months and I don't want that to happen again.
First off I got tonsillitis and then a heavy cold and a nasty cough, all that took three weeks to fully go. I was then OK for about 5 days until I got ill and I felt terrible for almost a week, I was then well for three days until I got sick again for 3 days. That took me up till Wednesday 18th April and I woke up that morning feeling much better but felt very tired, by lunch time that day I had a cold and felt dreadful. I then went to bed for 4 hours and got up and I was so tired too but I didn't want to lie in bed so I got up and watched hour upon hour of TV. On Thursday I woke up feeling a lot better so thank fully it wasn't a heavy cold. By the end of Thursday I was feeling almost back to full health except I was very tired but because I'd done nothing all day i found it hard to get to sleep and was even in the shower until 2:30am and didn't get in bed till after 3am so when I had to get up Friday morning I was shattered.
I just don't want to be ill as much as I was last year, for almost two years I've been ill for probably 9-12 months of that time and that is way too much. When I was younger I'd probably get one cold per year and maybe one other illness but now I'm just getting ill way too many times and feeling ill all the time isn't a nice feeling so I just hope that I am able to improve my health and not be sick all the time.

With being ill I feel behind on all my courses and found it hard to get back into my study routine and I'm not happy about that. I had my end of course assessment for my Business Studies course to do and I hasn't done it even on the day before it was due so I had to stay up all night and complete it in a super fast time. I started on it at 10:30pm on Monday 16th April and kept going till 2am. I then went to bed till 4am and then got back up until 7am and I then slept till 10:20am as I had trouble waking up. I then had a quick breakfast to help me concentrate and then worked on finishing it. I finished it at 11:35am and then quickly went through it and managed to submit it at 11:44am exactly 1 minutes before cut off. The cut off time is 12 noon but it needs to be in the system at least 15 minutes before for it to go through on time and I just got it in 1 minute before so I was happy. I really should of spent longer on it because it involved going over course work I did 6 months+ ago and I had to rush through and there were times when I struggled to concentrate because I was so tired but I got there in the end. I don't know if I will pass it, I think if I had longer on it I would of passed but I think it could go either way and I could pass or fail. If course I want to pass but the more I think about it the more I think I will fail and the bad thing is I don't find out for two months if I have passed or failed so I won't know for all that time.
With me getting ill I've barely done any study and with three courses on the go that hasn't been a good thing. When I've felt well I've found it hard to get into a study routine and it's not good because I need to be doing at least 4 hours a day. So I am behind on both my religion and technology courses too and I have two assignments due next week - one for religion and one for technology and there is no chance I will do them both because there is still a lot of course work to get through for both courses first. I know I can't get an extension for my technology assignment because it's my last assignment before my ECA (end of course assessment) for that course and they aren't allowed to give extensions for the last assignment so I asked my religion tutor for an extension hoping that I would get two weeks but she has only give me five days and that's all so I'm still in a mad rush. So from today (Saturday) I will be rushing through the rest of my course work for my technology course and starting my assignment and tomorrow (Sunday) I will finish it. Sunday I will also start working through the rest of my religion course work and am planning to have done it all by Monday evening which will be a push because there is about 300 pages of reading to do. I will then spend three days going back through all the material (I normally need 6 days, 5 hours a day) and writing notes that I can possibly use for my assignment. Then on Friday I will be starting my assignment (hope to have over half done by the end of the day) before working on it a little on Saturday and finishing it on the Sunday because that's the day it's due. Once it's finished and submitted I will take 4 days away from that course and will start my ECA for my technology course even though it isn't due for another 4-5 weeks and with some luck I will have it finished by the end of that week so it will free up more time.
With some luck I will get back into my study routine and do a minimum of two hours per day on my religion course, I also hope to get a couple of weeks ahead on that course too.
May I start two short science courses!! They won't take too much time up, they are only level one and 10 week courses for a bit of a topic change for me and I plan to have them done by the end of June.

That's all for now!!