春天不是读书天

最近的天气真好，春天嘛。看看水边的鸭子，它们多写意啊！这么美好的季节，可是同学们都在为撰写论文伤透了脑筋。: (

破茧而出的飞蝶

"Why am I different from others? "

"Why... do you have to be like others?
Music is a visible thing. Close your eyes. You will see. "
Just can't help but love this ad so much!
小女孩坚忍不拔的精神让我想起这句御文 - 湿木取火、干土出水。
This should be the spirit of practitioner of the Lotus Sutra.

再谈吃药

I can't believe it, the infection came back again last night! Iphoned the GP this morning, and they told me that the clinic was fully booked and there is no free time slot that the doctor can see me. But they said they will get a nurse practitioner to phone me back soon. This is the system in UK. You have to register with a GP before you can see the doctor (unless you go to the hospital) and you have to phone the GP for an appointment before you can see the doctor . Not like in Singapore, you can choose to go to which ever clinic you like and you can just go to the clinic if you are sick, and you can even go to two clinics if you like to seek for second opinion.

The nurse practitioner phoned me 10 mins later. She asked me what happened and she asked me to go the clinic to see her at 12.20, so I went. Because I had been taking antibiotic (which apparently does not kill all the bacteria), she is not sure whether she should give me another antibiotic. So she went to consult the doctor, then she came back to tell me that she decided to give me a different type of antibiotic. After she printed the medicine chit, she brought it to the doctor for signature before giving it to me. She said she is not the doctor and she is not authorised to sign the medicine chit. So, I was treated by the nurse but not the doctor. With the medicine chit, I went to a pharmacy nearby to buy the medicine. In UK, the clinics do not sell medicine. They only give you medicine chit and patients have to go to pharmacy to buy medicine themselves.

So far, these are the antibiotics I have taken:

Midecamycin 200mg - 15 cap for 5 days
Augmentin 625mg - 21 tables for 7 days
Macrodantin 50mg - 30 tables for 7 days

I learnt that it is important to keep track what antibiotics I take, so that next time, I can tell the doctor which antibiotics work or do not work for me.

谈吃药

我乖乖地吃了这款抗生素一个星期。念医科的屋友AK说这是很强（也很贵）的抗生素。我飞回英国前吃的抗生素只有250mg，而这款抗生素却有625mg！在英格兰，到药房看医生无需付费，但是医生只给药单，病人去pharmacy拿药时就得付药钱。但是我是在医院拿药，所以无需付费。AK还说这药很强，会同时杀死肠胃里坏的和好的病菌，尤其对老年人不太适合用这款药。

还记得护士把药交给我的时候，我问他这药应该在饭前或饭后吃，他说饭前或饭后都可以。在新加坡，药物上通常会标示药应该是在饭前或饭后服用。如果没有特别标示，我习惯在饭后吃药，总觉得这样药物才不会对胃造成伤害。后来，我看了附在药盒里的information for patients and carers, 才发现原来这药应该是在饭前吃的，这样就能够避免产生腹泻的副作用。我这才知道原来前一天腹泻和吃这药有关。于是我改在饭前吃药，就再没有腹泻的情况出现了。虽然这看起来是小事一桩，但是我觉得医务人员不应该忽略这些讯息。还好，我及时读到有关的讯息，要不然，吃这药一个星期，不就得腹泻一个星期？！还有，我也学习到，吃药应该遵照指示，不应该擅自决定。

Facing Challenges with Cheers!

Let's always try to challenge
any of our struggles
cheerfully and with enthusiasm!
A single wave of joy calls forth
tens of thousands of waves of victory.
Firmly united, let's enact a stirring drama
in which "the wise will rejoice".

~ Daisaku Ikeda

Feeling better

虽然还在服用抗生素，但是感觉身体好多了。至少现在比较有胃口吃东西，而且不像之前那样老想躺在床上休息。回来剑桥已经一个星期了，什么东西都还没做到呢。时间不多，得好好加油了！

门前的大树

没想到门前的这颗大树原来长着这么又大又多的花朵，和我三月离开的时候完全两个模样。

春天是最漂亮的季节，阳光普照，到处都生长着不知名的花朵。但是，对有花粉症的人来说这是一个让人难受的季节。回剑桥后因为身体不适，医生给了我大量的抗生素。GB提醒我在服用抗生素的同时，也要服用维他命C增强身体的抵抗力。她就是在一次生病时服用了大量的抗生素后开始对花粉敏感。