At the doctor

When I feel very ill, I go to the doctor.
First I call for an appointment, then I go to the consulting room and I wait for my turn to enter. Then the doctor listens to my complaints: how I am feeling, where I feel pain - and she examines me. I have to strip to the waits, then she looks at my throat, listens to my heart and my lungs, and sometimes she feels my pulse and checks my blood pressure.
When she knows what disease I have got, she makes out a prescription (with the prescription, I can buy the necessary medicine, pills or liquid) and if I am very weak or if I have a serious disease, she can put me on the sick list for a few days. This means that I am not allowed to go to school or work during that period.
Then I have to stay in bed, relax and sleep a lot, take the medicine two or three times a day, before or after meals, and I have to drink a lot of hot tea, fruit juice or mineral water.

The symptoms of a disease are:
- a running nose
- a sore throat
- a bad cough
- splitting headache
- high temperature
- insomnia (when I cannot sleep at nights)
- pain in my limbs (arms or legs)

If I have a toothache, I have to go to the dentist. I have to sit into the dentist's chair and she examines my teeth. If it is needed, she drills the bad tooth, then fills it. If a tooth cannot be saved, it must be pulled out. In this case I am given an injection into my gum so my pain will be less.

If I have a serious disease (tonsil-removal, a broken limb or appendicitis) when I need an operation, I must go or be taken to the hospital. After the operation I have to stay in the hospital until the doctor says that I am healthy again and that I can leave.

The are curable and incurable diseases.
The curable diseases are sore throat, influenza, chicken pox, mumps or measles.
The incurable diseases are cancer, AIDS and heart attack.

There are different kinds of handicaps that cannot be healed or only in a small amount. These are:
- blind - when someone cannot see
- deaf - when someone cannot hear
- dumb - when someone cannot speak
- lame . when someone cannot move