I was really excited for today because, finally, it's the day my aching tooth gets extracted. Today's the medical drive in our municipality, and since there are dental services included, I didn't miss the chance to avail the free tooth extraction. I'm not fond of medical drives because, for sure, there are a lot of people, but since I badly need my tooth to be extracted, I woke up early. However, it had been raining since midnight, so I kind of doubted if there would be a medical drive happening. But when morning came, it thankfully stopped, and with that, we were able to come to the venue.
By the time we arrived, there were already a lot of people. We immediately fill up the forms in our lines. It's still past 7:00 A.M. that time and the number of people exceeded my expectations. It's expected because our municipality has a lot of barangays under it. Plus, it's free, and they're giving free medicines and even glasses, but of course, there's a limit to how many they can cater to today. And that's why we came early, which isn't that ideal because if we really want to be catered early, then maybe we should have gone to the venue at 5:00 in the morning.
Which is impossible because it's still raining at that time, and these soaked banana leaves at our backyard haven't even dried when we left our house.
Back to the medical drive, I think it took more than an hour before we were able to proceed to the next step, which was the sorting of which services we would avail. The sorting area was quite in chaos, but still we're able to get past that, and after checking our vital signs, we're good to go! Well, that's what I expected because again we waited in line. However, it seems that as minutes passed, our line seemed inexhaustible. The healthcare workers keep on getting younger patients to prioritize, and since I'm not part of the young ones—I need to wait.
That wasn't a problem with me, but it was for others, especially with the older ones. They keep on grumbling and stressing out that they should be prioritized since they are the older ones. However, the thing that they missed out is that they're mostly with high blood so the healthcare workers advised them to cool off for a moment. But they totally didn't understand the point of cooling off, and so the workers just let them be. That's why I spent most of the time in line listening to their grumbling... grumblings that soon annoyed the hell out of me.
I started my day positively, and I already expected the crowd and long lines. I already braced myself for those, yet at the end of the medical drive, I still ended up kinda drained with the negativities of grumbling people. Why can't they just shut up and wait in silence? Plus, the ones who grumble a lot are the ones who have just arrived. They thought they would be catered to immediately just because they're senior citizens. I scoff because there are literally a lot of senior citizens who also came early and didn't get catered early. But did they complain? No... because they knew that all who were given numbers would be entertained sooner or later... they just need to wait—preferable in silent manner. But they can't... some of them can't.
So why complain so much? Well, maybe because she felt the need to, and while listening to her, the good vibes I've gathered gradually decreased. I hate people like her who think highly of themselves. Even the older ones behind me somehow sympathized with me while we listened to her rant. When I finally get my turn, she's also the topic of the workers inside. Of course, they are still humans, and they definitely also get pissed when they are pressured too much. I just smiled as the long needle pierced my gums.
'Ahhh, what a day!', I thought while feeling every inch of the needle being injected. The extraction didn't last long because I didn't fuss much like the previous patient. I'm already used to needles, so I'm pretty much not afraid of them now. Maybe the most stressful thing that happened today is the rants of the woman who fortunately got her due. The extraction finally shut her up later on—Alleluia!
All of the pictures used are mine.
