Alex’s Ataxia Blog

DRS 7& NURSES ARE THE GREATEST

September 19th, 2007

Day 11 - Sept. 13th

First thing this morning I got a chunk of a large pill along with a piece of apple stuck in my throat - at first I could barely breath and after choking it got a little better - Alex called in the nurse who brought in a dr. They said I had to go down to emergency to see a Dr. - I didn’t want to go but they said they had to look after me. Jonny a volunteer who speaks english and the Alex’s nurse took me down to the main fl where we went to an office of a ear/nose/throat dr who examined me and said I would be okay just to drink lots and lots of water and it would dissolve. So that’s what I did and now I’m fine.

I went to the market and when I came back Alex had a headache and a temperature and the nurse and Jerry the volunteer were in checking on him. They left & came back with the Dr. who told him to drink lots of water. Then when we were eating our supper the Nurse & Dr. came in to see how he was - he said he was on call and he was to call him if he felt ill and he would come see him immediately. They sre take care of you here - it makes you feel better just to see how concernd they are about you. His temperature was only 3.7 but I guess that was high to them.