#nhsproblems

[heavensmysteries]

My Testimony

I was supposed to celebrate  my birthday the weekend before its actual day, as it would fall on a weekday and my friends would all be busy. However, the day before when my elder sister came back from work, she noticed that my face was really red. I brushed it off and told her something along the lines of, “it’s just the clay mask  (the clay mask was still on my face), when I wash it off everything would be fine!.” I noticed before she made that comment, that my face was unusually dry that day. After i had washed off the mask, my eyes were slightly swollen. A few hours later, my face was starting to swell badly.. 

The next day in the morning, i struggled to get up because my face was completely swollen. I had not experienced anything like this before. The only allergies I have food wise is to shrimp, and even if I decided to accidentally eat it (I know i did a decade ago) my face would not swell, I would just have the “pre-throw up” feeling for a few hours.

   My dad decided to take me to  the chemist because the local surgery is closed on  Saturdays. The doctor gave me tablets for allergies and told me that the swelling should start going down in fifty minutes, though the packaging said fifteen. I took the pills and hours passed by, still no difference. Rather, my faced was slowly getting puffier and puffier. By now, I had rashes all over my face and I looked like a balloon.

I called the pharmacy I previously went to with my father and the doctor recommended that I call 111 and tell them what exactly had happened. Instead of sending me an ambulance after  I had made it clear that I had no transport to get to QEII hospital as I could barely see because of the swelling, yet they gave me no options except that I should cancel the appointment If I could not make it. Hence, I ended up taking a cab to the hospital which was a thirty minute drive and I was seen in just under forty minutes.

 The doctor told me that the swelling could not have been from food, as it was only my face and neck that was swollen. Though I had not used the face mask recently, I had used it countless amount of times in the past months, so till this day I have no idea what had caused the swelling. 

Through it all, I thank God that I am alive today. Being bed bound for a couple of days and unable to do literally anything made me realise just how important it is to thank God for life. To appreciate life! Other people cannot eat or see and some even have to have someone bath them, but I can do all these things without any assistance. I was scared that my face would not go back to normal! I was scared that my face would keep on getting bigger and bigger, but God has truly been  MY shelter, a Refuge in times of sadness, anxiety and WORRY and for dying for my sins, I cannot say anything but thank you LORD JESUS!

2 Corinthians 12:9

But He said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” 

Below is my face, as you can see it was extremely swollen and underneath the photo is how i normally look. (I was opening my eyes here).

Underneath is how i would normally look “glam’d up!”

[geniegurl82]

Self saboteur. #nhsproblems #lackofdoctors (at Kent, Kent, United Kingdom)

[feralgoth]

I've been vomiting blood for the past four days but the doctor won't take me until next Monday

[jamieinwonderland27]

Walking down the hall way and finnding this lol #NHSProblems!!! (Taken with Instagram at Nyack Senior High School)