The Joys of Oral Painkillers...

While I was hoping that I would get around to meeting with my partners for the bioengineering design project, I woke up at 3:30AM on Saturday morning with excruciating ear pain in my right ear. After several panic-calls to Penn-transit, I found myself sitting at the UPenn hospital emergency room twiddling my thumbs impatiently waiting for a doctor to bring me out of my misery (and hopefully, pain).

After an hour of waiting, I left the hospital with a prescription for oral painkillers, antibiotics, and neomycin ear drops to help cure my ear infection. My only thoughts at that moment were relief and exhaustion, but after the pain subsided later that evening, I came around to appreciate the how efficient the painkillers/antibiotics actually were.

I can't imagine having to insert a needle into my arm each time I was in pain. For every individual time I ever needed a dose of pain medication, I don't know if I would have been capable of using such an intravenous method. My unfortunate experience this weekend brought me a lot of pain, but also gave me insight on how important it is to remain "ahead of the curve" in terms of methods of administering medication. I can only imagine how cumbersome and tiresome it is for people in constant pain to have to use a needle to manage it sufficiently.

Presently, my pain is gradually subsiding, thanks to the help of modern medicine, and my mind is in full swing, ready to get back into the world of design and creation in BE 100.