Hospital experience..

I'm experiencing chest pain and swollen left lymph node at the moment. I went to Geylang Polyclinic yesterday and saw some poor old people.

Old lady 1 sat next to me at registration kept asking me if it was her turn already... Hmm.. They don't even recognize numbers and no one was with them.

Old lady 2 seemed to have giddy spells... The nurse brought her outside the room and told her to wait for her turn. The minute she sat down, she exaggeratingly shook as if she's falling even though she's already seated. After asking some people, apparently we can still feel the giddy spell while sitting down. Again, no one was with her. How come???! It is so dangerous for these old people to visit the doctor on their own.

After seeing the doctor, she referred me to Alexandra A&E to do a more thorough checkup. So I went home to bathe and took a cab down.

Old lady 3 was in Alexandra Hospital. She shouted for the nurse for more than 30minutes and nobody attended to her. As she was speaking in Cantonese, I couldn't help her as I don't understand the language. Finally, she grabbed hold of a nurse and got her. Then she left. Not sure what's wrong with her. Another poor old lady on her own.

Anyway, my hospital trip was scary. Was given a catheter on my right hand to draw blood for checks. It was so painful that i almost cried. Did urine test, ECG and Xray of throat and heart. The catheter remained on my hand for a few hours and I was in deep pain for that few hours while sitting on a chair in the A&E.

When all the test results were out, the doctor said everything seems fine but he gave me 3 days mc and told me to go back again next Wed. Then the nurse came to remove the catheter. She was so rough that when she pulled the tape off, the catheter came off with it. I almost cried again. What a torturous trip to the hospital. At the end of the day, I was given panadol and a bottle of solution to gargle in case of mouth infection. Hmmm.. I don't see any link of the medicine and my condition. How can we just eat panadol for every pain??! Was too tired to ask further and I left. Maybe I should just go to a heart specialist. Shall do that if the pain continues...