Japan Trip 2013: Being Stressed

When I was in Japan, I didn't have the best time there. It's not because the country is bad, it's just that the people I went with made me feel stressed. Still, I wanted to do blog posts of my trip because it was my first time going there in 4 years and during those 4 years, I was dying to go. Also I don't know when the next time I'll be going there because of the expenses and I can only go during the holidays when theres no school. Anyways, when I figured out that I'm going to Japan, I was very excited. I thought that I'll have a fantastic time there and get to eat all the food that I've been wanting to eat for years. 

I was wrong. As soon as I got to the airport, I remembered how bad of a time I had when I went to Hawaii with my mom and my brother. I started to feel less excited and when I got onto the plane, that's when I realized it's going to be hell. I ended up getting the airplane food and I realized that I couldn't eat it so my mom got mad at me. Also because of something I ate on the plane, I started to feel like I was going to throw up. I ended up not throwing up and I thought my headache would just go away but it never did. It led me not have any appetite during the whole trip. When we were at the hotel, I was treated pretty much like crap by my mom and brother. My brother would get pissed at me whenever I "followed" him and my mom always seemed mad at me for no reason. 

The next day when I went to the Hello Project shop in Akihabara, I felt like I needed to rush and buy everything in around 5 minutes. That led me to be in line again because I realized that I wrote down some pictures that were already sold out. After that, I didn't realize that it takes a long to get all the pictures so it took me an hour just to get my order. The people who were in front of me ordered what over 50 photos?? So my brother lost his patience and just left with my mom. 

I just felt like I couldn't do anything I wanted to do with my brother around. I couldn't even order a parfait because my brother wanted it. Anyways, that led me to feel very stressed and at one point, I felt like I was going to die. Luckily I only got sick but I felt like I didn't belong with my family.

Japan Trip 2013: Getting sick in Japan

So today I would like to talk about getting sick in Japan and what my experience was like. So I started to feel ill the night I got back from Universal Studios Japan. I felt like I needed to throw up and I did. But then I felt like I had to throw up again which to me was weird. At first I thought I just felt bad and not sick because I ate more than I can and ended up riding rides that will make me puke after that. I usually feel a lot better after I throw up but I didn't. Then from what I remember, I think my mom realized that I was sick. 

The next day, I just relaxed and stayed at my grandma's house, hoping I'll feel better. I felt worse though. I had to throw up a few times and having to walk felt very painful. I had no appetite so I basically just ate jelly. I ended up making a mistake of eating some chips because I thought I felt a little better which made me feel worse. My mom called my grandma from my dad's side since she was a pharmacist and asked what kind of illness I might have. From what I was told, the illness I had was something that was spreading. 

I still felt like crap that night so the next day I went to a local hospital and had to have a Intravenous therapy. The cost for the hospital trip was 100 dollars and it was cheaper than I expected since the U.S is more expensive when it comes to going to hospitals with no insurance. 

During my last days of being in Japan, I began to feel better. I didn't have much of an appetite though but still, I didn't feel like I had to puke. I never figured out what I exactly had but I'm assuming that it was a stomach flu of some sort.