Our super hot spell has finally broken with the arrival of a good
rain. It's raining as I write. Man, it was hot! The weather here can be very challenging, and it seems
sometimes that nearly everyone has some kind of cough, cold or fever.
Patty developed some kind of throat infection that sent us to doctor/hospital visits the last three evenings. Dr. Narong, our usual pediatrician, wasn't open the second night, so we went to the ER at the Srinagarind Hospital, which is the University Hospital here-- where things take longer. But they do a thorough work-up with x-rays, blood and urine lab-work, and they gave Patty IV fluids cause Patty hasn't been able to eat much. It had been a late-hour decision to go there, and we wound up getting home at 4 a.m. Lak subsequently took a half day off, and I slept late but still just got a half night's sleep.
By the next evening, still little or no improvement in Patty's breathing and her fever was still coing and going, so we visited Dr. Narong again. He prescribed a different antibiotic, stating that the infection was resistant to the first one he'd prescribed, and he said the two meds given by the hospital would not be of benefit. The ER visit had been expensive, and also, evidently, relatively useless.
I have had to more or less bite the bullet and swallow the pill of orthodox western medicine with Patty's health problems. Fortunately, she does seem to be getting stronger, but these things still happen. Bottom line, however, her resilient spirit is amazing, and she is usually in good spirits and full of energy.
Patty developed some kind of throat infection that sent us to doctor/hospital visits the last three evenings. Dr. Narong, our usual pediatrician, wasn't open the second night, so we went to the ER at the Srinagarind Hospital, which is the University Hospital here-- where things take longer. But they do a thorough work-up with x-rays, blood and urine lab-work, and they gave Patty IV fluids cause Patty hasn't been able to eat much. It had been a late-hour decision to go there, and we wound up getting home at 4 a.m. Lak subsequently took a half day off, and I slept late but still just got a half night's sleep.
By the next evening, still little or no improvement in Patty's breathing and her fever was still coing and going, so we visited Dr. Narong again. He prescribed a different antibiotic, stating that the infection was resistant to the first one he'd prescribed, and he said the two meds given by the hospital would not be of benefit. The ER visit had been expensive, and also, evidently, relatively useless.
I have had to more or less bite the bullet and swallow the pill of orthodox western medicine with Patty's health problems. Fortunately, she does seem to be getting stronger, but these things still happen. Bottom line, however, her resilient spirit is amazing, and she is usually in good spirits and full of energy.
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