If there's ever gonna be a deadly kiss? I think it's inevitable for the vampire to step aside for a deadly competitor: Aedes Mosquito.
A kiss from this tiny whiny blood-sucker and out goes $1.3k from the pocket/wallet. Yes, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight nor was there any typo-error. It's ONE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for medical bills. In addition, I was deprived of much blood for countless blood tests and 14 days of non-work. Omg. I wondered if my job's gonna be part of the price too..
It all started with a fever on the evening of Thursday. Little did I know it developed into an unbearable feeling I had to drag myself to a 24 hours clinic in hopes of a relieve. Turns out the clinic was closed during 2+am and had to redirect the cabby to TTSH. There, I thought it was nothing but a jab for a couple of minutes before I return home. Turns out it dragged into a few hours visit when the doctor drew my blood, told me it was too early to detect anything (still puzzled why he drew my blood in the first place) and had to go for IV-drip. But thank goodness my temperature dropped from 39.9°C to 36.7°C.
Hell broke loose since then. I felt like I was burning like a sun as the day progress. Mama (my aunt) took me to see a chinese physician. Who I took my hat off him. I spoke nothing of my illness and he could report everything which was wrong with my health just by feeling my pulse.
By evening, the chinese medication didn't work. I made a trip to the neighbourhood's family clinic and got a lecture from this hag-doctor. But we had to agree whatever she nagged about was quite right. We shouldn't have consumed Western medication with Chinese's which is likely to cause kidney failure. Oh anyway, I couldn't tolerate her lack of professionalism (from the way she spoke and reacted when we tried explaining my situation and how desperate we were seeking help from the chinese and TTSH). Damn her.
Of course, the medication prescribed by her didn't work. Obviously. My temperature remained in the 39°C range. I was helplessly on a 3 pill medication, constant hydration and porriage diet. Half-alived and feeling cold and warm through the weekend.
Monday, feverish, I went back to the same clinic to consult Dr Vida, our family's "most visited doctor". It was then she suspected I had dengue and she suggested for me to go for a series of blood tests. The blood tests revealed my blood platelets was falling and these caused me to spend the next week travelling back and forth and wasting time at TTSH.
I just can't figure out why patients have to waste so much time..waiting when they are literally illed and suffering.. just because every staff at the hospital "dilly dally" and are in fact outrageously "inefficient". Is it the pay which they are getting which explains their behaviour? Is abit too over-professional to display patience when they are on duty?
More blood tests, bruises on my arms, time and costs were spent until they confirmed my blood platelets fell below 50 prior admiting me into a hospital. By then, my fever had subsided after 7 days of torture.
Insisting on staying at the main TTSH itself, it left me no choice but to live in an A class ward which was the only ones available. I never expected hospitalisation would be luxurious. Oh, it has to be with 900 bucks spent. There was LCD TV; nurses greeting you when they change shift; newspapers; drink water with wine glasses; and you even get to choose your daily meals from a two-paged menu. No IV drips, only guava juice, milo and flasks of water for me to consume.
People came to visit. So paiseh. Then blood test again the next day. By now the bruises on my arms made me no different from a drug-addict. Omg. And good new, the blood platelets increased and I was told by the doctor of my discharge. Funny thing was.. all my test for dengue proved negative. And the doctor never confirmed if it was dengue. So they have no choice but to tell me I had a viral-infection.
Today I went back for blood test. Same clinic at CDC. The arrangement was super inefficient I tell you. Somemore I am not under any government subsidy. In my mind I was cursing "Pay so much still have to wait and face all these stupid poor management". There was like no flow in the way they direct the patients. The staff tell different instructions (very weak SOP) and what? the patient suffers from being asked to go there and back and don't know where else.
Blood test was excruciating. Got pricked twice because my blood flow was limited. Super aching when the male-nurse pressed the needle before taking out. Omg. Three tubes of blood and dizzy spells came. I am worried I'm running out of blood, having faced two weeks of infinite blood test.
And today costs how much? 60 plus. Sigh... What a dramatic 10 day experience. All because of a deadly kiss from an aedes mosquito.
A kiss from this tiny whiny blood-sucker and out goes $1.3k from the pocket/wallet. Yes, there's nothing wrong with your eyesight nor was there any typo-error. It's ONE THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DOLLARS for medical bills. In addition, I was deprived of much blood for countless blood tests and 14 days of non-work. Omg. I wondered if my job's gonna be part of the price too..
It all started with a fever on the evening of Thursday. Little did I know it developed into an unbearable feeling I had to drag myself to a 24 hours clinic in hopes of a relieve. Turns out the clinic was closed during 2+am and had to redirect the cabby to TTSH. There, I thought it was nothing but a jab for a couple of minutes before I return home. Turns out it dragged into a few hours visit when the doctor drew my blood, told me it was too early to detect anything (still puzzled why he drew my blood in the first place) and had to go for IV-drip. But thank goodness my temperature dropped from 39.9°C to 36.7°C.
Hell broke loose since then. I felt like I was burning like a sun as the day progress. Mama (my aunt) took me to see a chinese physician. Who I took my hat off him. I spoke nothing of my illness and he could report everything which was wrong with my health just by feeling my pulse.
By evening, the chinese medication didn't work. I made a trip to the neighbourhood's family clinic and got a lecture from this hag-doctor. But we had to agree whatever she nagged about was quite right. We shouldn't have consumed Western medication with Chinese's which is likely to cause kidney failure. Oh anyway, I couldn't tolerate her lack of professionalism (from the way she spoke and reacted when we tried explaining my situation and how desperate we were seeking help from the chinese and TTSH). Damn her.
Of course, the medication prescribed by her didn't work. Obviously. My temperature remained in the 39°C range. I was helplessly on a 3 pill medication, constant hydration and porriage diet. Half-alived and feeling cold and warm through the weekend.
Monday, feverish, I went back to the same clinic to consult Dr Vida, our family's "most visited doctor". It was then she suspected I had dengue and she suggested for me to go for a series of blood tests. The blood tests revealed my blood platelets was falling and these caused me to spend the next week travelling back and forth and wasting time at TTSH.
I just can't figure out why patients have to waste so much time..waiting when they are literally illed and suffering.. just because every staff at the hospital "dilly dally" and are in fact outrageously "inefficient". Is it the pay which they are getting which explains their behaviour? Is abit too over-professional to display patience when they are on duty?
More blood tests, bruises on my arms, time and costs were spent until they confirmed my blood platelets fell below 50 prior admiting me into a hospital. By then, my fever had subsided after 7 days of torture.
Insisting on staying at the main TTSH itself, it left me no choice but to live in an A class ward which was the only ones available. I never expected hospitalisation would be luxurious. Oh, it has to be with 900 bucks spent. There was LCD TV; nurses greeting you when they change shift; newspapers; drink water with wine glasses; and you even get to choose your daily meals from a two-paged menu. No IV drips, only guava juice, milo and flasks of water for me to consume.
People came to visit. So paiseh. Then blood test again the next day. By now the bruises on my arms made me no different from a drug-addict. Omg. And good new, the blood platelets increased and I was told by the doctor of my discharge. Funny thing was.. all my test for dengue proved negative. And the doctor never confirmed if it was dengue. So they have no choice but to tell me I had a viral-infection.
Today I went back for blood test. Same clinic at CDC. The arrangement was super inefficient I tell you. Somemore I am not under any government subsidy. In my mind I was cursing "Pay so much still have to wait and face all these stupid poor management". There was like no flow in the way they direct the patients. The staff tell different instructions (very weak SOP) and what? the patient suffers from being asked to go there and back and don't know where else.
Blood test was excruciating. Got pricked twice because my blood flow was limited. Super aching when the male-nurse pressed the needle before taking out. Omg. Three tubes of blood and dizzy spells came. I am worried I'm running out of blood, having faced two weeks of infinite blood test.
And today costs how much? 60 plus. Sigh... What a dramatic 10 day experience. All because of a deadly kiss from an aedes mosquito.
