So... I promise I am going to post more often!
I will just post my musings and if you want more info you have to contact me! It was daunting to think of writing a novel each time I sat down... so I stopped!
Today's musing
It is interesting living in a country where healthcare is so cheap. I have been wondering whether to go to the doctor about my knee for about a month now. I fell down on Joowangsan while hiking and bashed it on a rock... it still hurts... But not badly. It just aches whenever it is bent for too long and aches when I put weight on it while bent, and aches when I kneel, and also when I go down stairs... Again, not badly... Its just annoying. So I brought it up to my Boss today and he said, Of course you should go to the doctor! We will get an X-ray and see what is wrong! I said, are you sure it isn't silly to go to the doctor for something so minor? and he said, in a country where it costs 300 dollars for a doctor visit and almost that much for an x-ray, it is very silly, but here it is so cheap you don't have to worry, just go! So I am finally going to find out if there is anything wrong with my knee! It is very interesting that we have developed a whole culture at home of self-medicating because health care is so expensive... There are people who won't go to a doctor unless they are dying... and some not even then... And we wait until it gets "bad enough" before we will even thinnk about going. But here people don't think twice about going for the minorest ailment... I think they are more healthy for it! Interesting... I wonder what it will be like if the health care bill is finally passed back home... Will things change? or is the culture of self-medicating so deeply ingrained that going to the doctor will never be flippant?
Happy December from
Lauren the Adventurer

PS HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO CAROLYN!!!! I love you sis!!