Neuro, Eye, Cardio

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Off I went to Butterworth to, among other things, to bring my mum to a spate of health-related appointments:

Neurology

Once again, the appointment with neurologist was so fast that by the time I parked my car and went to the clinic, it was already over. In summary, my mum gave them the letter containing the results of echocardiogram done at the cardiology clinic (the results are normal), which they kindly gave her a copy of it for our reference. Continue with 7.5mg flunarizine.

Symptoms wise: had migraine only four times in a 4-month period, rarely had dizziness, seldom had sinus

Ophthalmologist

This was a follow-up to the initial appointment 6 months ago. This time it went much faster: about an hour or so. Dryness was ok but still need to continue with the special eye drop. Consider surgery to remove cataract from the right eye after my mum's heart has been checked (read below).

Cardiology

As ordered by neurologist, mum got the holter from cardiology after waiting for 15 months. Once again, the whole process was fast: about 45 minutes. They set the monitoring period to be 24 hours i.e. a day later we were back at GH to return it. Mum was asked to go straight to the clinic, rather than register and wait to be called, but to my surprise, she was then asked to detach the device and the wires herself in the toilet. Staff then clean her skin. Hmmmm.

Neurology is supposed to collect the results from cardiology, which means we will know the result at the next appointment with neurology clinic: 6 months time! I supposed they will call us way before that if the result is bad.

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