Okay so last Thursday I spent half the day dusting, vacuuming, and mopping the entire apartment. I burnt serious calories that day. Over the weekend, we had the worst sand storm I have ever seen since arriving in the UAE. The visibility was awful. Then came the thunder storms.
Friday after the sand storm, came the storm of storms. It actually rained hard. There was thunder and lightening. I haven't seen this kind of weather here and to no big surprise, people were outside looking around and getting rained on while the lightening was in the sky. Parts of the UAE even saw and felt hail. It has probably been raining for about three days off and on. So I seized the opportunity to clean again considering; when there is a sand storm here, the sand gets into and on everything in the apartment. It takes me a couple of hours to dust and mop everything from start to finish.
It won't surprise you when I say that everyone comes down with some kind of sand induced sinus issue. This time for me was my eyes. I woke up Saturday morning with one eye crusted shut. Looking like Popeye, I got my cotton balls and mixed salt and warm water. I treated my eyes with the concoction several times throughout the day into the night and wala, my eyes started clearing the next day. They still hurt though even though they stopped watering and crusting in the corners. I was happy I didn't have to go to the doctor.
I don't trust the doctor's here. I have been misdiagnosed twice now and over-medicated as well. The doctor's here do not run tests here like they do in the States. I am beginning to think they aren't listening very well. Maybe it is a language barrier. Whatever the case, I don't trust them. I will try home remedies first and when I can not take care of the problem myself, as a last resort, will go to the hospital. I thank God I do not have small children. I know people here that do and have had issues with the hospital. Anyway, not too much to blog about because I really haven't been anywhere to do anything and it looks like the weather is going to keep up through Wednesday.
I just remembered, a friend here told me she found a hospital where there are American Doctors, American certified. I think I am going to check them out next time I have something arise that requires the doctors attention. By the way, the name of the hospital is Advanced American or something really close to that. Will have to find out for sure.
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