HK$100 per day. rocks.

the health care system in hk really rocks. as a citizen, you pay HK$100 per day, inclusive of any operation done. yes, and cos of my hk student visa, managed to pay only HK$400 (about S$77) for a 3 night stay plus an operation for appendicitis. it probably would have cost S$1000 back in sg. ministry of health please wake up your idea.


a satisfied customer.


anyway. i was at queen mary hospital and it rocks! they all speak english and quite decently as well. so was not bad. and for a c class ward it was kind of equivalent to a b2 in sg. the standard of the hospital was prob like ttsh or sgh standard.

adventure 1.
first night i met a super chio doctor. (but she was wearing a mask, so cant see her full face.) and she was the same age as me!! so she prob jsut grad or sth. and she was rather noob in putting the iv drip on my hand. she put the tourniquet for too long until my fingers were purple. and she didnt really do it properly cause my blood was flowing up the iv tube. lol. and she was a bit panicky, asking me not to worry, etc. so i kind of laughed at her and she laughed at herself. shouldnt the nurse be doing this kinda things? haha. anyway after all the mistakes she made, she finally set it up.



unfortunately, after 1.5 days, my vein died or sth, my hand swelled a bit, prob cos the needle wasnt nicely placed. so in the end, had to poke the other hand for the other 2 days.

then there were air bubbles. after she left i saw this humongous air bubble going into my vein. i tot i was gg to die. cos in army, during the iv drip tt we learnt, they told us must never ever ever have air bubble inside, cos it might kill the person. i guess the army is full of shit. anyway i asked the nurse later on, after many more bubbles went in and they said it was fine.

when she returned later to get more info, manged to make a joke then she laughed at although i didnt think it was funny. but then they transferred me to another ward and i never saw her again. damn.

adventure 2.
at the new ward my miserable life began. i had to wait for my turn in line for the operation theatre so i couldnt eat. they didnt let me eat since i checked in. so in total i didnt eat for about 49 hours. they had a sign for me.



so i had to survive on drip. which made my mouth super itchy. i must kfc when i fully recover. but after the op i got upgraded to fluid diet. which was rice water. what POWs eat. then upgraded to soft diet. which was what oliver twist ate. and finally my last meal was normal diet. i got upgraded much faster than the granny who was sitting opposite me. when i was on drip she was on fluid diet. when i made it to normal diet, she was still at soft diet.

in the new ward, the average age was like 70 years old i guess. cos it was the intestine/colon/rectum problems ward. so pple were doing their business in the ward itself (with the help of pans/bottles/nurses). wondered if i'll be one of them when its my turn to be old.

so. here concludes my adventure in queen mary hospital. conclusion: khaw boon wan needs to shape up.



entertainment. the princessy show thingy. in canto.



my faithful walking stick/iv drip holder buddy. never left my side. and my lunch was hanging on it!