Quote Originally Posted by harrybarracuda
Are you on drugs this morning?
You are clairvoyant.

Just coincidence I suppose but today I did visit two local hospitals. The first "clinic" dressed a self inflicted leg wound (when you use a brush cutter, dress in armour) and suggested a visit to the "big" hospital in the next town.

We trundled along to the Big Hospital, went through the admin and assessment teams and finally saw a very young lady doctor. She inspected the wound said she would prescribe oral antibiotics. I was about to suggest that a "growth" in my groin needed "manipulation" but a stern look from my wife put that out of my mind. She passed me onto the emergency tea with a smile.

They were having coffee but when they realised a felang needed some pain administered they all pushed to be the first.

The first approached with a large pair of scissors and with one thrust and snip the dressing fell to the bin. The second approached with a metal tray of various shaped cutting/probing instruments, a container of what looked like sweet chilli sauce and some various pieces of cotton.

He started swabbing gently but as I only whimpered softly he took that as a challenge. He next started to twist the smaller probes into the wound, which had the desired affect and his smile broadened.

Next up was a pretty young nurse, at my age everybody is, who approached with a syringe. As the doctor had proscribed oral antibiotics I questioned her. My wife spoke to her in Thai and received a reply. She turned to me with a smile and said it's a "booster". God knows what it was but the nurse was very pretty.

When I woke up........ no that's another tale.

With the last nurse approached with another tray of pads, tape and bandages and proceeded to see how tight she could wrap a large wedge of them around my ankle. Once she had received enough cries of pain from me she announce "finished" and I hobbled away. All the team said "Get well soon" and "come back here"!

My wife went over and paid 70baht for the doctors fee and a couple of hundred baht for the pills an potions for me to take home.

I did, of course, cut into my wifes cards session, so I'm sure to pay later.