Showing posts with label headache. Show all posts
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Monday, 16 April 2012

Symptom 2 - Part 3: Second trip to the Hospital

Friday, 2nd March,  2012.
Hmm, a new anniversary?
A New Menace...clearly, this blog could not possibly have been written by me unless there was at least one Star Wars reference.

I'd got my bag packed on Thursday night because I had been booked in for an overnight stay at the Ruber International Hospital.
T-Shirt, shorts (so no awful Hospital Gown needed), and a small wash-kit.
Survival gear (Laptop, DVDs and a couple of PC games, Kindle, plugs and chargers, mobile phone).
And...Joy of joys, the hospital had WiFi!!!

I arrive at the hospital and check myself in at reception and then again, complete the administration. This was a further €1000, and after this, I was shown up to my bedroom for the day/night. Co-incidentally, it was the same room I had been using the previous day.

Today was already planned out.
  • Chest X-Rays
  • Lumbar Puncture
  • Course of Corticosteroids (to reduce inflammation in the areas of the lesions and hopefully reduce the numbness). This course would be over the course of the next three days; today, tomorrow and Sunday.