Screw you, health care!

So the past 2 days have really just consisted of me hating the Australian health care system.  I opted to go to the student health center to make sure my toe was set properly.  So after picking up my insurance card, I got to the desk to make an appointment, and the lady tells me that I could see a nurse right then if I wanted to, which sounded good to me, so I took a seat and waited.....

After an HOUR of waiting, I get called in to see the nurse, at which point (without so much as LOOKING at my toe) tells me that it's probably fine and I need to see a doctor if I really want it looked at.....All I needed was for her to check the alignment of my toe, which as a nurse, she should be qualified to do.....but I was so pissed at that point that I just left and went home, rolling my toe in the process since I had taken my tape off thinking it was going to be examined....

That night, around 3 a.m., things turned UGLY.  I woke up not feeling....good, and spent the next 3 hours in and out of bed, throwing up nonstop.  It was pretty cracking.  I eventually spent the rest of the night/morning in a ball in my bed, throwing up into a bucket for the next few hours.  I was getting pretty concerned since I couldn't keep fluids down (just rinsing my mouth with water would cause another spell of puking :/) so I opted to go to the health center again. 

I took a cab over since I didn't think I could walk that far, and who do I get to see?  The SAME nurse who turned me away for my toe.  She proceeded to tell me that it was just probably some gastric bug, and since they didn't know if it was an infection or not (IT'S FOOD POISONING, THAT IIIIIS AN INFECTION!!) there wasn't anything they could do and nothing they could give me......though I could think of a bunch of things they could have given me....antibiotics....anti-nausea....a sedative even, so I didn't have to spend the rest of the day in agony?  Nope.  I was told to "sleep it off".......it's a bad sign when a Korean hospital takes better care of you than an Australian.....hrm

So needless to say, I've spent the rest of the day alternating between sleeping and desperately trying to rehydrate with gatorade.....bleh.  We'll see if I feel good enough to make it to class tomorrow, given that I missed it today :/

That reminds me of how insanely behind I am in school!  aaahhhh!  Random assignments keep getting talked about on my class websites, but then when I look for more information about it, I can't find it anywhere?!  Is there something I'm just missing?  I hate the way classes are run here, it's so annoying!!!

Anyways, I'm sleepy again, sitting takes too much energy, so it's bedtime......w00t