patgund: Knotwork (GIR - WHY???)
patgund ([personal profile] patgund) wrote2006-06-25 03:59 am

This is not a good way to spend the day.....

Get to Hamad Hospital.

They do an x-ray.

They do a CT scan.

They make me drink some nasty-tasting constrast solution.

They do the CT scan again.

They give me another dose of the constract solution, this time by another route. (And that's all I want to say on the matter)

They do the CT scan again.

They decide it could be diverticulitis. Or it could be appendicitis. Their recomendation, lapriscopic surgery to see, and that way they can remove it if it is appendicitis

Prep me for surgery.

Do a chest x-ray

Have them decide that they're not going to do the surgery after all, but instead will keep me overnight for observation

Turns out there's no bed available, it being midnight. They decide to keep me in a bed in the ER until one becomes available.

3:00am, send me back to my flat with prescriptions for a pain killer, an anti-fever med, and two antibiotics. (Panadol, Ibuprofen, Flagyl, and Ciprox)

Total time there - 14 hours.

[identity profile] tepintzin.livejournal.com 2006-06-25 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
Gah. sounds like a Canadian hospital visit. Keep us posted on what happens, 'kay?

[identity profile] patgund.livejournal.com 2006-06-25 09:26 am (UTC)(link)
Much the same health care model I believe. The plus side was that my prescriptions at the hospital were only Qr2.00 each, and I didn't pay for the visit. One antibiotic though I had to get at a chemist, and that was Qr175.00

I suspect next time I'm going to Doha Clinic though