Notes on being a patient in Hospital:

1.       First and foremost, prophylaxis is extremely important. The lack of it makes this essay.

2.       After receiving all the treatments, I have the feeling that had I been able to avoid the cause of the disease, I could have been spared with all the torments during the treatment of it. Prophylaxis should be considered as the most aggressive and cost-effective treatment of all forms.

3.       Desperate situation calls for desperate measures, whereas for minor infections the cure method is more of strengthening the bodies’ own immune system rather than to replace it. If the body cannot stand on its own in the long run, treatment is never effective. The body has its own way to deal with infections, for minor cases all it needs is a little push. Likewise for chess.

4.       Doctors are not necessarily better than nurses. When I was in ward, the doctor there I&D me, without cutting off my inflamed tissue around the wound. Soon enough the wound was filled with abscess again, and it was only at the wound care specialist’s place that I could have my wounds completely cleared (Without any weak opioid this time) .

5.       The nurses did what the A&E doctor considered to be impossible, simple I&D but instead insisting that I should go to surgical ward. I think it is just bureaucracy.

6.       Dirty wound hurts less when I&D because it’s already dead, whereas when operating on fresh wound prophylacting against further aggravation, it hurts a hell lot more.

7.       Ward is the hardest place for recovery; Sick people with different types and degree of illness grouped together in an overcrowded room, Beeps and Weeps buzzing all around 24-7, Lights are never completely out making sleep difficult, You don’t have enough space to walk and relax, Intravenous injection hurts like hell.

8.       Infections and illness remind you your status as a mortal, nothing is a greater philosophical trauma than an illness, everything about faith and religion can be built up or broken down instantly.

9.       You can be poor, single, old, short, ugly, disabled, whatever bane you have;  when you walk out a hospital every time, you feel like none of them matters, because not everyone that entered made it out alive.