The other week I dreamt of seeing myself in a coffin with my relatives crying around it. I searched the net for the interpretation and it says that it's the end of a career or a relationship. A premonition perhaps and there it was.
For more than a week, I experienced having alternate diarrhea and constipation. Knowing that this is not a normal elimination pattern and has been interrupting with my work, i sought the doctor's advice.
I got absent from work and went to Top Health Medical Clinic in SM San Lazaro on February 7, 2011. The receptionist told me that the gastroenterologist won't make it so they have to refer me to a family doctor. She assessed me, palpated and auscultated my abdomen. She diagnosed me ruling out Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS) and Amoebiasis. She asked me if i could submit a stool sample for laboratory test and I did. An hour later, the results came in.
"Negative ka sa ova and parasite", she said. "Probably it's IBS. Just work out on your stressor (IBS is stress-related and I can't think of any other stressor aside from work. Since it's also interfering with my job, I decided to give up teaching).
I informed my cousin, who is also a doctor, about it and she said that IBS is a diagnosis of exclusion which means there could be an underlying disease. She will reassess me to confirm if I have (hopefully none).
I talked to my boss 2 days after consultation and she accepted my resignation. I told her that I'm sick and I need to rest. The decision is final. It's going to be my last week as a Korean tutor after teaching for 1 year and 1 month. I gained new friends and surely I'm going to miss them all. Till next time ^_^
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