|
Living alone is never easy. You have to judge and decide for yourself on many things in life. Above all, although the number of single-person households is increasing rapidly, social services that support ‘living well on your own’ are still lacking. Therefore, one-person households need to take an interest in one-person households and continue with empathy and solidarity. [1코노미뉴스]In accordance with these social demands, it will in Korea and abroad is lit as it is. -Editor’s Note |
Lee Da-jung, single person home in the UK = I suffer from a chronic sore throat at the beginning of the year, and I also had a bad cold this New Year.
A week after the New Year, what was initially thought to be a mild sore throat, started with a fever.
Last month, it was the second time I got corona and caught a cold, but it was on a different level to that time. It started with a sore throat, which progressed to a fever and a runny nose, and I had to fight a terrible battle with a cold for two weeks.
In Korea, if you have a bad cold, you go to the hospital, but in England, you don’t go to the hospital for a cold unless it’s corona. Unlike Korea’s national health insurance system, the UK provides a free National Health Service to anyone living in the UK. Even emergency patients cannot receive urgent treatment, so when you have a cold, the best way to buy an antipyretic and analgesic (Paracetamol) is to eat and rest.
It had only been a week since I had returned to work after a long year-end holiday, and it was difficult to use a Sick Day because the number of employees in the company had decreased. My body was sick, but I didn’t want to catch a cold and there were a lot of things I had to do, so I took cold medicine and a strap thread constantly and went to work. The company was literally recommending mandatory time off. I woke up after sleeping half a day that day, but my body was still heavy and I couldn’t move.
It seems that when I’m sick while living in a foreign country, I think about my family the most and want to see them. However, I didn’t bother telling my family because I thought they would be more concerned if they knew I was sick living alone in a foreign country. So lonely, but not lonely. He was thanking the precious people I met in my life in England. A close friend Uber Eats rice noodles at lunch for me who couldn’t eat anything that day. I couldn’t taste it because my nose was cold, but it was very warm.
After work, my flatmate brought me lunch, pears, Manuka honey, vitamins and traditional Chinese cold medicine. Thanks to that, I felt my body lighten little by little. As expected, after resting for a day, my body recovered somewhat the next day, and I was able to go to work as usual.
A bad cold came to bless my New Year. It is truly wonderful to have people around me that I am grateful for who genuinely care for me. Especially, what could be luckier than meeting good people while living in a foreign country and maintaining good relationships? Because I’m grateful and I don’t want to worry, I feel like I should take better care of myself living as a single person household.
in
