Wednesday, June 13, 2007

hot brown sugah opens her trap yet again

my hospital stint

last night (i'm humming p.diddy's song) haa!

okay, last night, i went to CGH (although i didn't want to but had to listen to parents) a&e because my temperature was 40degC according to the mercury thermometer (yes, we have the old school, vintage thermometer).

when i went through the screen thing, the door ladies screamed at me "adeeeek! tinggi nyeeeeer demaaaaaaaammmmmmmm" (your fever is soooooo hiiiiiiiggggggghhhhhhhhhhh)
i was intrigued. how can she know that my temperature was that high before taking my temperature. then i saw the screen thing. ahhhh. one door lady took my temperature with the ear thermometer- 40.2degC. she asked me to sit in the waiting glass cubicle, specially for fever patients. before i went, i asked if i can see myself of the screen. before the door ladies can answer, i was walking in and out of the door (that's where the sensors are). the door ladies actually entertained me, told me how to look at myself at the screen. haa! boy was i red.

then, the wait to see the doctor. wah piang! so long! my back was aching. i would have lied down on the hospital floor if i got something to lie my head on. so i wrote down my list of sickness. once i got into the doctor's room, i gave him the list and went straight to the bed. heh. i still had to repeat myself though.

i had to have a blood test and i/v drip to lower down my temperature. i whimpered like a tortured puppy when the doctor inserted the needle into my arm. hey, poking needles into human beings = torture too ya know!

after a sample of my blood was taken, i had to go to the observation ward for the drip. nurse took my temperature again-40.4degC(phwoaaar). since i wasn't sleepy, i thought i'd strike up a conversation with the cleaning lady who was mopping the floor in malay.

i asked her why she doesn't need to cover her face. she said no need because the mop she was using traps the dust, not push them around. my real question was that why she didn't need the surgical mask since she's around people that may have contagious disease. well, the answer i got was- her mop attracts dust. obviously i didn't go on with the conversation. i don't think my malay is that bad. oh well.

about an hour later, the doctor came back wit my results. he said i've got viral fever (big hoohah going on here about dengue fever, bird flu and mad cow disease. okay, mad cow's just an exaggeration. heh!). he asked me how i felt. i said i felt warm (suddenly it felt like i was under the hot sun, without the UV rays). "no, no" said the doctor. so i went 'huh?' apparently, "how do you feel" mean "do you feel giddy? nauseus (sp?)? stomach pain?". ahhhhhhh.

since i didn't feel any of those, he said he's gonna let me go. so with an expressionless face, eyes barely opened, i went 'yeayyyyyyy'. afterwhich, he said he hoped i'd get well soon and gave me a friendly pat on my arse

not.

hah!

he gave me a pat on my knees la.

so that's my night out last night.

*door ladies: the people on duty to screen those coming in and out of the a&e and take the patients' temperature. last night, 2 ladoes were on duty, thus the term door ladies.

toodles!

ps: i could afford to be chirpy still coz i didn't have a headache. i thank God for that (Alhamdulilah!) coz if i did, i don't think i can even walk. =)

+ > the glamour babe posted at 8:32 PM < +