Walk-in

-
CW had been a great help for my dad so far. He did all that was asked for in a schedule, that he agreed in advance, and more. In fact, he pampered my dad hehehe.

On a related note, each time my dad came back from hospital appointment, he felt exhausted. Although we didn't think it would help much, with CW's agreement, we asked him to follow along on a trip to Penang GH so that my dad could be wheeled in the push chair we brought along. That would had been difficult and time consuming for me alone to handle, on top of doing everything else e.g. drive and park car, getting medicine from pharmacy, etc. Conclusion: my dad wasn't exhausted and so we would be asking CW to come along to hospital.

The trip we made was a walk-in to consult PCU, three days after the last appointment. The purpose was two-fold:
  • Dad had watery poor and very soft poo twice each on Saturday, none on Sunday and small amount of normal poo on Monday. I was concerned that it would be a repeat of previous time where the condition slowly deteriorated to three days of constipation. Relevant to this was that I was going back to PJ in two days time.
  • The pain didn't improve: Oxynorm 5 times a day, pain score of 3 when sitting, and pain flared up to pain score of 6 when left leg elevated on lazy chair (purpose was to reduce water retention in his legs) and he had to take Oxynorm immediately, sometimes a second one 2 hours later.  
Junior PCU, as always, consulted the senior doctor (someone new to me; the usual specialist was away). The latter said
  • There could be a variety reasons for the pain e.g. cancer, posture and insufficient painkiller dosage.
  • Regardless, need to make sure painkiller was effective and that meant getting rid of the regular constipation.
  • Needed to give constipation time to work i.e. 2 weeks.
To me, clearly, he didn't think the painkiller dosage was insufficent and so...

Me: So you believed that the constipation is causing this pain?
Snr doctor: No, I don't believe. I AM SURE that it is the reason.

Yes, he raised his voice. Fortunately, I managed to keept quiet and not retaliate (the younger me might had done that), especially since I myself used to frequently unintentionally speak in a loud voice when excited (much less so now, I would like to think).

The junior doctor had better 'bedside manner'. She suggested my dad to take Oxynorm just before he uses the lazy chair, and to consult the hospice nurse if we need help. The hospice nurse can contact them if needed.

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - character build (Part 1)

-
Here are the character builds for my current run (with the help of Ban): Kyrie Fellblade/Marked Counter: Slow Secondary passives: Execute, Life Font Fellblade itself is a good class because of the various conditions it can inflict and most importantly they can inflict Sleep. Iirc, the only other human class that can do this is Gadgeteer. Their passive Malice increases the chance of landing it by 10%. Fellblade pairs well with Marked because both use ATK and MND in their offensive abilities. Also, Fellblade's abilities are mostly short range whereas Marked has some long range abilities. Execute for more damage. Life Font is for suvivability. Ban opined that with two healers, there's no need for Life Font but I discover that it enables Kyrie to survive just enough for a healer to heal her up, after having received massive damage. Ban advocated for Marked/Fellblade for superior Speed (1.00 vs 0.92) and defense (heavy armor). I resisted this for a long time because I ...
Read more

Fell Seal: Arbiter's Mark - character build (Part 2)

-
(continue from Part 1 ) Yates Anatomist/Wizard Counter: Cripple Secondary passives: Blessed One, Smart Casting Anatomist is the best healer in game due to the passive Legendary Healer, which also then boost the amount of self-healing by Blessed One. Although Ban thinks Anatomist's Dark spells are sufficient in dealing damage and so he suggests Alchemyst as Yate's secondary class, I choose Wizard for the following reasons: Quite often, demonic creatures have Dark immunity and other creatures have immunity to other elements. So having Dark, Water, Fire, Earth and Thunder spells enable Yates to cast the most suitable spell, especially when the enemies are vulnerable to certain elements. Flexible casting :) Smart Casting is useful so that I don't need to worry much about the positioning of the enemies relative to my other characters when using Mass Healing and the area effect damage spells. As stated in previous post , there "are so many devastating Skill ba...
Read more

Sudden lower body pain

-
About two weeks ago, my mum developed pain in her pelvic bone, much more on the right side, and squeezing pain in her legs, with occassional spike in pain. She was managing it with paracetamols, 2 tabs three times daily.  Since we didn't know any particular orthopedist in private hospitals (it was only recently that I remember Dr Prashant ), I targeted one at KPJ Penang Specialist Hospital since it's in mainland Penang (instead of on the island). I made appointment for my mum with Dr Joehaimey since he has the earliest suitable date. The moment she walked through his door, he immediately asked her whether the pain from her right side. We were both quite impressed. He was in turn impressed with mum's prepared list of medication that she presented to him on a piece of paper. The key information seems to be the surgery she had back in 2011 to insert titanium plate and screws in her lower spine. He guessed that there's accumalated wear and tear due to aging. So to confirm i...
Read more