this is not gongfu related - well other than Hengxuan's wonderment at the high standard and no-cost aspects of National Health Hospitals in the UK. e.g. "Can chinese people come here and not have to pay?" "But it doesn't smell like medicine as Chinese hospital's do?" Also noted now is his approach to all illness: "Must cook chicken soup!"
I had a procedure to get to the bottom of my PCOS, which involved contrast dye at 6pm. It was a breeze, minimally uncomfortable for the 3 minutes the procedure took, and the outcome was what we wanted. We then ran a few errands, got in, had a bite to eat and a cup tea then 2 hours after the procedure...
As I suspected we got bumped up the triage queue, so i didn't get to sit in the casualty clowning around with my brother and Hengxuan, and was so spared discussing exactly how he was going to prepare the chicken soup for too long. I got assessed by the nurse who noted that my blood pressure was low, then the house officer, by which time my blood pressure had picked up again, so they gave me two big Co-codemal and a Piriton, and told me to sit in the seating area for 30 mins until my condition stabilised.
15 mins in, the pain started getting worse... considerably worse, my cognition was hazy in places, then, I started developing pains completely accross my chest and shoulders... I got my brother to get the doctor's attention. The pains turned into pain accross the upper arms, constriction then pressure on the chest, very brief strangling senstation, and pins and needless in the hands. Breathing was laboured throughout.
They brought me back accross to one of the treatment rooms, where the nurse and doctor both mentioned that I had become transparent... I brought up the water that I had just taken the medication in, and stabilised a bit. They moved me to a bed, where (on top of the abdomen pain) I experienced pain round the front right of my ribcage and pain in a line down my right shoulder blade and back chest cavity. The A&E consultant took over.
They did an ECG which showed a borderline left ventrical failure (? or something along those lines?). So they took blood for some blood work (Hengxuan was horrified to see how much blood they were taking and couldn't watch the needles going in - big wuss!), put in an IV drip and some steroids, and took more blood from my wrist to check oxygen sats (again Hengxuan hiding in the corner). Ultimately they decided they wouldn't be sending me home that night.
Fortunately, other than the stomach pain and only being covered by a sheet, I had an uneventful time through the early hours and the rest of the morning. So they let me go home, with so many antibiotics that I'm going to be rattling over the next 7 days... and the abdomen pain has almost totally subsided over the second night.
I'm in very good health at the moment, yet this was very scary stuff... during the course of the evening, I registered fleeting moments of raw fear in both Hengxuan and my brother's eyes that they had been confronted with the prospect of losing me.
My entire family now understands Hengxuan's "Chicken Soup" approach to all illness. And its now brought it back to me why Guoyin called me "Chicken" in the first place... because when I am not well, its all Hengxuan talks about! Hengxuan's second policy towards illness is grounding - if I so much as talk about going anywhere he throws all his toys out his pram... in all of this, he's also disclosed, that other than to have his cavities filled and veruca's treated, he hasn't been to the doctors since he started training gongfu back in 1990...
Much happy fun!
Chicken
I had a procedure to get to the bottom of my PCOS, which involved contrast dye at 6pm. It was a breeze, minimally uncomfortable for the 3 minutes the procedure took, and the outcome was what we wanted. We then ran a few errands, got in, had a bite to eat and a cup tea then 2 hours after the procedure...
- severe lower adomen pain
- vomiting
- urticaria (rash over face and neck)
As I suspected we got bumped up the triage queue, so i didn't get to sit in the casualty clowning around with my brother and Hengxuan, and was so spared discussing exactly how he was going to prepare the chicken soup for too long. I got assessed by the nurse who noted that my blood pressure was low, then the house officer, by which time my blood pressure had picked up again, so they gave me two big Co-codemal and a Piriton, and told me to sit in the seating area for 30 mins until my condition stabilised.
15 mins in, the pain started getting worse... considerably worse, my cognition was hazy in places, then, I started developing pains completely accross my chest and shoulders... I got my brother to get the doctor's attention. The pains turned into pain accross the upper arms, constriction then pressure on the chest, very brief strangling senstation, and pins and needless in the hands. Breathing was laboured throughout.
They brought me back accross to one of the treatment rooms, where the nurse and doctor both mentioned that I had become transparent... I brought up the water that I had just taken the medication in, and stabilised a bit. They moved me to a bed, where (on top of the abdomen pain) I experienced pain round the front right of my ribcage and pain in a line down my right shoulder blade and back chest cavity. The A&E consultant took over.
They did an ECG which showed a borderline left ventrical failure (? or something along those lines?). So they took blood for some blood work (Hengxuan was horrified to see how much blood they were taking and couldn't watch the needles going in - big wuss!), put in an IV drip and some steroids, and took more blood from my wrist to check oxygen sats (again Hengxuan hiding in the corner). Ultimately they decided they wouldn't be sending me home that night.
Fortunately, other than the stomach pain and only being covered by a sheet, I had an uneventful time through the early hours and the rest of the morning. So they let me go home, with so many antibiotics that I'm going to be rattling over the next 7 days... and the abdomen pain has almost totally subsided over the second night.
I'm in very good health at the moment, yet this was very scary stuff... during the course of the evening, I registered fleeting moments of raw fear in both Hengxuan and my brother's eyes that they had been confronted with the prospect of losing me.
My entire family now understands Hengxuan's "Chicken Soup" approach to all illness. And its now brought it back to me why Guoyin called me "Chicken" in the first place... because when I am not well, its all Hengxuan talks about! Hengxuan's second policy towards illness is grounding - if I so much as talk about going anywhere he throws all his toys out his pram... in all of this, he's also disclosed, that other than to have his cavities filled and veruca's treated, he hasn't been to the doctors since he started training gongfu back in 1990...
Much happy fun!
Chicken
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