ER

My roommate woke me up this morning (around 6.20 am.). As i remembered with my sleepiness,
i saw her almost crawling into my room and asked me to take her to the nearest hospital
cos she got pain in her stomach at the right side.
She was afraid she would be ไส้ติ่งอักเสบ. I quickly wore my jeans and drove her to Garfield Medical Center as fast as i could.
It took around 5 mins to there. When i arrived ER, they didn't have any wheel chairs in front of that
so i just took her inside.
I saw an unfriendly face security sat there and another guy sat in the glass room.
He let me filled the form and let her signed the paper while she was holding her stomach,
bending herself with her face on that counter.
I started to be angry a lil bit cos we still had to wait for a doctor.. i think we have waited for this f**ing process for about 15 mins and even haven't met a doctor yet. ( what the... how about if someone got fired by a gun !).
I told that guy 'why is it so slow?' He said the doctor will be right here in a couple mins. Finally,
the first doctor came and my roommate went into the small room and the doctor asked her some questions,
then she went out ...
the guy in the glass room asked her to sign papers again ...another one and another one
i thought to myself if i called 911 and asked for an ambulance to another hospital ..would it be faster? ..
My roommate told that guy if she could get the doctor who can speak chinese.
After that around 5 mins i saw one chinese doctor walked pass by to the room at the back.
3 mins later she was in the room that my roommate just went out ...
so my roommate went into that room and answered the doctor some questions again.

When they finished, we went into the back room which is real ER ...not that busy this morning..
the doctor asked her to pee in the cup so they could check it later.
I took her on a wheel chair to the restroom and went back to the exam room again.
The nurse put the blood pressure machine pad on her arm and we can c her blood pressure and the graph of her heart beating on the monitor. Then the nurse wanted to have blood test.. but when my roommate saw the needle..
she was about to cry and she was stutter and said ' oh ..oh.. i'm scared of the injection'.
The nurse said it will be hurt only once and only in a moment ..
My roommate looked at the needle at first almost cry ..then the nurse told her to look at my face instead -_-'.
She tried to grab my hand and squeezed my hand really hard and closed her eyes while the nurse was doing that
(actually i squeezed her hand really hard too, cos i was watching the needle)
Then the nurse gave the first bag of Sodium Chloride to her.
Another doctor (she is american) came to exam and asked her some questions but she wanna tell the doctor that she thought she would be ไส้ติ่งอักเสบ but she doesn't know the english
(sadly, i don't know either :p i was about to call my mom in Thailand and asked her ..cos she is a nurse professor) she told the doctor that she wanna explain in chinese so the doctor asked the staffs outside ...
the nurse said 'she can speak english'
the doctor said 'but she asked for someone who speak chinese' and the doctor turned to me 'do u speak english?' ..
i said .. 'yes ..but er.. we don't know the word for the thing she wanna explain..' then another chinese nurse came and talked with her in chinese.
So the doctor asked more questions like where is the exactly position of the pain.
The doctor first guessed that she might got Urolithiasis (นิ่ว) Anyway, they had to take her to do CT scan (X-Ray with the donut shape machine).
We waited for a while then the nurse came again..to give her morphine for pain relieve,
I kept watching the blood pressure monitor..and told her 'oh your heart beat graph is in a mess...'
and sometimes told her to relax when her heart beat is more than 90 haha , i saw the first bag of Sodium Chloride
was just gone..so i said ' ..your blood might be salty now ..you got 1 litre of Sodium Chloride inside your blood.'
She also still kept saying she will die soon ..and asked if i think she will survive til my birthday or not.

then there was another guy came to take her bed to another building near there to have CT scan.
When i saw the CT scan machine ... then i brought her phone up ..she wondered..
so i told her.. i'm trying to figure how to take a pic with your phone haha ..
but i used my phone instead ..to take one pic with her, lying on the bed ..then my phone memory was full,
so i took her phone to take another pic then let her c the pic. She changed it to be her phone's wallpaper,
but before i could take a pic of CT scan machine the doctor just came out ...so i didn't get that pic..



After we came back to the exam room...nothing to do ..i asked if she was feeling better
She started to say that she wanna have congee (โจ๊ก)
The nurse came back and told her that we still waited for her scan result..after that they guessed she might have cyst.
I tried to explain what cyst is to her...and told her maybe she had to prepare to answer the doctor what she ate and drank
often recently. I still took more pics of her with her phone ...
i said ' I should bring camcorder' :p 'should be a good documentary vdo' she didn't agree with me..
'y not ? ..it's like when the women gave a birth...

They would like to have ultrasound with her ..the nurse came to ask if she felt like she wanna pee...she said no.
Then the nurse came back with the new bag of Sodium Chloride ..cos they needed her stomach to be full of water
so they could do ultrasound. But the patient can not drink so they gave her Sodium Chloride.
She went for ultrasound for half an hour then came back. Her boyfriend came but they allow only 1 person
to stay with the patient in ER so I switched with him.

5 hrs later, they came home they said she got a cyst ..but that cyst didn't cos a pain ...she got a pain cos she got
Urinary tract infection [UTI] or Pyelonephritis (ทางเดินปัสสาวะอักเสบ หรือ กรวยไตอักเสบ) from holding pee often.
Anyway ..she looked fine ...like nothing happened this morning...