So a few days ago I wake up as usual; this usually consists of hearing my alarm, promptly deactivating it and only stumbling out of bed a half hour later. Clearly I am not a morning person, and this just wasn’t my morning it seems. I often sleep with my mouth open it appears so I generally go and spit out all the crap that has dried over night… charming I know. Well that morning into the basin I spat saliva laced with blood… delightful I know.

I have in the past had nosebleeds while asleep (waking up in a pool of blood is never fun) but upon inspection it appeared this was not the case. I’m not a hypochondriac at all and normally I’ll ignore medical problems in the hope that my body will sort itself out and I won’t have to fork out my hard earned funds to some guy that studied more than I did :/. This wasn’t one of times though as I hadn’t been feeling all that great lately; fatigue, nausea, etc. So a few hours later I carted myself off to the doctor, for the third time in a month. As it turns out he was slightly less clueless than me. So a vial of blood was drawn and sent off to some lab to determine what possibly ails me. A costly affair, though I’d been meaning to get a blood test for quite a while now, so not all bad.

Expecting a longer delay, imagine my surprise when I got a call yesterday informing me my results were back already. Fast service in this country? I didn’t even know it was possible to run all of those tests so quickly, I guess that shows my lack of knowledge about the medical field. I suppose private health care makes a difference, you really pay for it. The kindly receptionist proceeds to pencil me in for an appointment later in the day and a few hours later off I go… again.

Arriving at their doctor’s office I walk in with a fair amount of trepidation, wait 10 minutes and proceed to the consulting room. The doctor walks in with a rather dour look on his face and thick file in his hand; very reassuring. Expecting some bad news and a cocktail of really expensive medication I was pleasantly surprised to discover that there is nothing wrong with me, I am in fact Gordon Freeman.