What english weather today. Thunderstorms and heavy rain yesterday meant that the BBQ/work party was postponed until next week. I was looking forward to trying my chicken I brought at Migros. Ah well. So now it’s grey and not too warm outside. I had to wear a jacket for the first time in the last month!
As a few of you may know I managed to get a few nasty insect bites on my leg a week or two back. I don’t know where I got it from. I think either by the lake in Zurich, or when I was in sunny Ticino. But on Wednesday, the bites started swelling up and it didn’t look good. On Thursday, sometime during work, I took a glance at my leg and noticed that my entire lower leg was swelling up, and getting worse too!
So I went to my supervisor and asked him where I should go. He booked an appointment for me with a local doctor. I really didn’t want to go to the doctor’s here in Switzerland, because I’m not sure if my insurance covers me properly. It should, but since I work and live here, I’m supposed to have “Swiss” health insurance…which is not cheap, hence, I’m in the process of checking if I can be exempt from this regulation.
As I walked into the doctor’s practice, I noticed how it was very nice and clean, and much better than anything I’ve seen in England. In the waiting room, there were the standard magazines and a fish tank. What would a waiting room be without a fish tank? There were these two fish that just did nothing except float. Then there was a small fish, that looked a bit like a tiger. It kept swimming back and forth and this slightly larger fish that looked like a mini mini shark, kept trying to chase it. I thought, “leave it alone, mean mini mini shark!”
Anyways, I saw the doctor, and he gave me some antibiotics after a somewhat strange diagnosis, and also arranged a tetanus jab. Now my left arm feels like it’s going to fall off and I can barely use it, but I was told to expect this from the nurse.
So price? Zero 
Apparantly an insect bite is an “accident”, so I was covered by my company, as I have to pay for accident insurance at work and elsewhere. So now I just need to sort some paper work, and all should be well. My leg, this morning, is feeling much better. The swelling has gone down, which is a good sign.
Off to Bern this weekend. Hope it’s a relaxing weekend, don’t want to waste my feet again.
