28 June 2009

H1N1?


I can't even remember when is the last time he had fever, he is rarely sick. After having high fever continuously for a few days, he decided to head down to tan tock seng emergency for fear that he might have H1N1. We waited for a good 4 hours before we can leave the hospital.

He was guided to wait at the area for patients with fever, while visitors can only stay at the visitors' area, where I was, feeding mosquitoes. @#$%&

The doctor had a x-ray done for him because of his chronic cough, and found out that he had slight pneumonia, white patches seen in the lungs' x-ray. He was given some better antibiotics and 7 days MC, and a referral letter to return to the hospital to see a specialist 2 weeks later (but he didn't go). He asked the doctor if any test needed to be done for H1N1 and the doctor replied no because H1N1 is too common now and need not be tested anymore, unless you belong to the high risks patients.

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