For some reason that song's been circling my head... Perhaps because I've been stupid yet again.
On Saturday, me and the boyfriend went to Alton Towers as a belated birthday trip. The weather forecast said it would be sunny and warm - yay! Perfect.
...you'd think, wouldn't you, that with advanced warning I'd have thought to protect myself against the sun, being that I'm very fair skinned and burn very easily... Wrong, I didn't. Hence why three days later I am sat here with first degree burns all over my face and neck and am hardly able to see for the fact that my forehead has swelled up so much that it's kind of drooping over my eyes and forcing them shut. I look like I've been punched in the face repeatedly :\
Had to go to the emergency out-of-hours doctor thing yesterday, and, after she'd Googled my condition (!) the doc sent me home with some cream and some tablets I'm not allowed to take (and she knew it. When I pointed it out to her, she said "oh, well, it should be fine..."). Errr... Right. Jem had a similar experience where an incompetent doctor was searching the net for how to deal with her particular case. WTF? Do doctors not need to go to medical school or anything any more? My grandparents (retired doctors) studied for years to specialise in their field. If it's just a case of Googling a condition and sending someone home with some OTC meds then I can be a doctor too. O_O
And the Alton Towers trip wasn't even worth it. There were huge amounts of queues and half the rides were out of order. We queued for 2 hours for one such ride before being told that it was experiencing "technical difficulties". We went to another ride, which, after an hour and a half's queue, experienced the same technical difficulties. Gah! We waited around since we weren't sure we wanted to find another ride to queue all day for, and after about an hour they told us rather annoyingly that the ride would be closed for the rest of the day. So, we found some other ride to go on, even though the park would be closing soon. Guess what? After an hour's queue, the SAME THING happened yet AGAIN. Although this time it got fixed relatively quickly (we weren't moving - we were at the front of the queue this time!) and we got to experience all 30 seconds of the ride, but argh, the frustration! We complained, of course, but got money off for next time and a priority ticket for some rides. Psh, we wanted a complete refund.
Anyway. I must go and lie down again. My work placement finishes on Friday but I can't do any work. *Sigh*
Oh, and anyone know of any cheap reseller hosts? I'm in need of one. Kind of tired of my site being constantly down. :(
Edit on 8th June: If you can see this, my site's successfully propagated onto the new server! :D
Louise
7/06/2006 at 13:52
About the doctors, that's a seriously big WTF! :o Well I hope you have some better days ahead. Once you start feeling better, it would be a good idea to treat yourself to a fun day, doing something that you *know* won't result in frustration.
Amanda
8/06/2006 at 4:44
Ack, sunburn hurts like heck. I've been lucky enough to avoid a severe burn for a few years. Usually I get it when I go "down south." I wouldn't mind if a doctor looked in a book about a condition, but looking it up on the web is totally irresponsible! I certainly hope they don't believe everything they read out there! Last time I said, "Congratulations, doctor, you killed me!" since he gave me meds I was allergic to after specifically telling him so! I can't find any good doctors. Assuming you can use it and have access, I suggest using Aloe vera lotion if you have it, even better is to tear the leaf off the plant and putting it on your burn. It works very well for me.
I'm not much for amusement parks, but from your experience, you deserve a refund!
Katy
8/06/2006 at 21:16
amazing vanishing comment, because you told me not to :P
Amelie
8/06/2006 at 23:37
^ It returns! I copied it over from the old server ;)
Lee
9/06/2006 at 23:29
It is so easy to burn especially if you are spending most of the day outside queuing for rides, I'm not surprised that Alton Towers gave you money off your next visit instead of giving your money back. Ideally they should have given you the voucher along with some monetary compensation. Is there a deadline for when the voucher can be used?
Amelie
12/06/2006 at 4:59
No there isn't, which is rather nice. Still, we kind of wanted our money back, we didn't want to give them another load of money so we can come back and queue again. Hmph.