Heavy sigh, well, I can say I brought this on myself but it wasn’t on purpose. As most of you know the extended air travel had a major impact my left leg muscle system. I had sever pain due to tense muscles that I let go for too long. After a month of self therapy, I went to a chiropractor who eveluated my spine and concluded the my problem was muscular. He proceeded with adjustments and muscle therapy which was helping. What wasn’t helping the heavy use of ibiprofane which caused my Creatatine levels to go from 1.0 to 6.1. As a result in the course of three days I passed out twice. Once in the living room of my apartment and once while taking a shower. With each instance I had to lay on the floor for a period of 10 to 20 minutes to regain composure of myself.
Once I was admitted to the hospital I pretty much did nothing except go to the bathroom and eat. There was one common theme while I was there. How much did I drink that day, how many times did I urinate in the day and how many times did I poop that day. Well, I’m sorry to say that it took me 4 days to finally poop and I was never so happy to do so :).
I do have to say that the staff at the hospital was super friendly and made a point to come see the poor American that didn’t have anybody to take care of him, I even had Nursing students come by and ask if it was true that students could borrow money to go to school, they couldn’t believe it was true.
Noury, a nurses Aid, often came around to make sure I was comfortable as well to take my vitals. My biggest problem while I was in the hospital was that I would sleep during the day and not be able to sleep at night.
Food there was pretty good but I had to let them know that I didn’t like fish. Here is pictured a lunch item, Chicken wing with rice. I was very tasty, just not enough of it. Here in the Philippines the hospital system depends heavily on family members to provide drinks of any kind as well as snacks. I had to buy a 10 liter jug of water so I would have something to drink.
A couple more down sides to their hospital system was that I had to put down a 35,000 paso deposit (about $650 usd) before they would admit me. A couple of years earlier the hospital was hit by a hurricane and only the nurses stations had hot water which meant cold showers which is not bad in the Philippines. The other biggest problem I had was basically no connectivity. I could not check my email, make international calls or even transfer money to/from my financial institutions.
After all this, I have to say that it ended up as well. I have my doctors person phone number should I need him. My immediate problem was solved and I met a lot of very nice people who took great care of me.
So to wind this story up I plan on taking a week or so to build up my strength before I go back out diving again and to conclude the moral of the story, keep on pooping……
Love you guys and thanks for all your prayers and concerns,
Wyn