Hopital

Monday, February 05, 2018
Hội An, Quang Nam Province, Vietnam
First some excruciatingly boring backgrouns info which I am probably repeating. I got a rose thorn in my arm from a mysterious source and it blew up and was very painful so I went to the Dford doctor who gave mne some pills. The lump went down but when I got to VN it blew up again to half tennis ballsize. My first foray was to the lady doctor {??} who lanced it and drew all sorts of mess out of it. My Le went to the pharmacy and got me some pills so I stopped taking the Oz pills and started on the VN pills. Then I went to the baby clinic next door to My Le who drained the stuff out again and bound it up. It was still swollen and I went back and they cleaned it up again and prescribed some stronger pills. SoI took them for one day and went back tohave it cleaned and bound again and the doctor looked very doubtful, you must go to hopital she said. I said its too soon , I have only been taking the antibiotics for one day. No you must go to hopital. While she was saying this, Tham, Myle's daughter in law came in and on her phone she told me, go to hopital, No no too soon I said. Then Nhi and Na came in, you must go to hopital, no no its too soon I said. The Hai came in, you must go to hopital he said, same same no its too soon. Then the clincher, as the whole family and the doctor and the nurses were standing around me saying go to Hopital, My Le rang. Go to Hopital she said in the voice of she who must be obeyed. So Nhi and Na took me to the Pacific Medical Centre the International Hopital in Hoi An. I didnt even know it existed but we took our number and sat and within 15 minutes we were upstairs seeing a doctor. 
The doc had a quick look and said any injury will cause inflammation. When we were waiting Na showed me info from Google that said any muscle inflammation can cause harm to your cervix. Well I was safe there. But the girls were worried about me and I appreciate that. The doctor also asked me if I was taking antibiotics and when did I start taking them, when I told him he said, too soon, or words to that effect. Anyway the nurse prodded and poked and rubbed the wound and bound it up again as they did in the clinic. All I was worried about at this stage was getting some hopital borne bacteria in it but they were very thorough with their cleaning and swabbing. So when it was finished I went to pay and it was US$83 for the treatment and pills. So I got my third lot of pills and hopefully the last.
After the hopital saga I returned to the shop and met Raine and Ron at Mia where we had a coffee and a debrief then back to the shop, me for a shave and Raine for a manicure.
I decided to go back to Trams parents in law and drop in prints of some photos sister and I took of the family when we visited last time. They were very pleased and excited to see them, I don't think they have many pictures of themselves especially 6 x 8 colour prints. I finally found out Dads name which is pronounced Yoom, my keyboard cant render Viet characters but it looks like Dung when written. The wifes name is equally mysterious, Hoang and the pronunciation I couldnt quite get so don't ask. So Dung got out a bottle of rice wine and we imbibed while his wife brought dried squid strips to chew on. Always good with beer Hai says. The wine was 40% proof according to Dung and as I knew people die from drinking home made wine here I was doubtful at first until he said Tram had given it to him.So we sat and drank while the delightful little LaVie capered around us and her granny sat on the floor giving her love to her every chance she got. Children are so loved here its good for us jaded westerners to see. LaVie by the way is a very popular water drink sold here and even tho they call her LaVie she will have another name which will be her true name later in life.
So I drove home a little drunk for dinner in Nha Le which Hai went out for and returned with Vit Chao which is rice and duck soup and a pile of duck with bones. The soup was beautiful but the duck less so.
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