Rewind it back to Saturday, October 5. I’m feeling a bit sick (it started around Thursday) so I stay in bed until about 3:00 in the afternoon, when I finally move around to eat. The Buckeyes are playing the Michigan State Spartans this evening; naturally, as a ticket holder, I go to the game, and disregarded the slight headache and sore throat I had prior to going to the game. My friends and I arrived to the game late, but nothing of importance really hapened in the game so far. I stayed there until about the beginning of the third quarter, when I started getting chills and began feeling worse. I went back to my room and took some medicine. I ended up sleeping at 10:00 after advice from my floormate telling me to go to bed after being in his room (which was at room temperature) with a winter jacket. I woke up at 1:00 in the morning since I had more than enough sleep in the morning and was not tired at all when I went to bed. Essentially my cold got worse as I tossed and turned in bed for a few hours trying to put myself to sleep as I felt hot and cold at the same time.
The next morning was even worse. My throat got even worse; I was coughing; I had a fever and I felt like I was going to die. So after talking it with my friends, I made an appointment for Monday (Sunday’s appointments were already full). I went after class, and while most of the symptoms went away by that time, I still was a bit under the weather. I talked to a doctor, and she gave me some medicine and I received a piece of paper saying that I went to the Student Health Center. I didn’t use it to get out of classes though, since I already felt good enough to go to class.
Looking back at the experience, I felt like the whole process went very smoothly. I went to the information desk and confirmed that I would be seeing a doctor, I got called, and I left with what I wanted. However, the process would have been a lot harder had I gone when I was at my worst during the cold. My only complaint (which is a nitpick to be honest) is that it is a bit far away, and that CVS is right by Houston so it is far more convenient to go there instead.
In general, Ohio State offers many services to its students. Unfortunately, I believe that most of these services are overlooked by most of the student body as there isn’t much information about them unless they are looked up online. The Student Health Center is a more popular resource, but I’m sure that there are many other services that I and other students could be taking advantage of if I knew about them. I guess it’s just that there’s so many of them it’s almost impossible for people to know all of the services offered by Ohio State.
Inside of the Health Center
The Student Health Center building. I Went back to take these pictures for this assignment.