I was suffered by Varicella Zoster (Chicken Pox) last 2 weeks.
As a doctor-to-be I feel ashamed, because I should have recognize the disease earlier. Instead, when I saw the first vesicle on my left arm, though I suspect chicken pox, but I hope is not chicken pox, and I thought impossible it is chicken pox because there is no people suffered from chicken pox in my hostel!Until the second vesicle appeared after 2 days on my other arm, I start to feel scared. So I ask roomate to have a look...
Christie: "What do u think?"
Shu Yu: " Errrrr...looks like chicken pox ler..ur trunk got vesicles or not?"
Christie: " No la...none of I notice of...*flip my shirt and see* OH MY GOODNESS....~~"
There are rashes over my trunk, that I don't even notice!!!! Haih..
I really don't feel wanna go to hospital, but I stay in hostel, due to Russian Epidemiological indication, I need to be quarantined.
So I pack my bag, call up ambulance, hand myself in....to the scary "prison" of Infectious Hospital No.2
When I arrived there already 11pm. The doctor took history and also did physical examination on me. She took around one hour to finish. Then I was ask to follow the nurse to another building!!! I was thinking, luckily is summer now, how a sick patient can walk from building to building at 12 midnite in winter??? Crazy~~
I was put in a "BOX" which consist of 2 beds. In the same row, there are 3 boxes including mine, but nobody was admitted except me. I was alone. I was thinking..."Yay!! good!!! is time to concentrate on study! No junk food, no comfy bed!"
(My bed, near the window)
Unfortunately, the next day, came in one little girl, Olia 10 years old who also suffered from chicken pox. On one hand, she is a cute roomate...on the other hand, I can't study!!!
(My little roomate - Olia)She is cute, not very naughty. But, she saw I have laptop, and she wanted to watch movies. U know...I'm very kind-hearted, what to do?? So I show her Cinderella, Little mermaid, Mr. Beans series, So you think you can dance, and August Rush...during the whole week. I gave her a regime, only can watch during lunch and during dinner.
She kinda sticky girl, she likes to follow me in doing everything. She brush teeth with me, wash hair with me, wash face with me, eat with me, sleep with me!!! Sticky huh? And she saw I have those facial wash, body shampoo and shampoo...she abandoned her sabun!!! She used mine pulak~~>.<"
At night, when I told her I need to study, she will ask me to remove all my books and go to sleep!!! She said she dunwan to sleep unless I sleep...duhhhhh~~ So....basically I didn't really study anything during the whole week stay in the hospital!!!!
The most terrible thing in the hospital is the food!!!! No need extra explain..the photo will tell u everything~~
(Lunch - Potatoes with some "unknown sauce" + two slices of bread + Soup taste like water plus salt)p/s: I name it "unknown sauce" because I saw some cartilage in the sauce!! Like the sisa-sisa from the meat~
Luckily, I HAVE SUPERB ROOMATE TAN SHU YU!!!!!
She brought me dinner every nite so that I wont need to eat the hospital food for my dinner...hohohoho~~
(Christie holding her precious dinner in the prison)p/s: This photo shows the view of how a visitor visits me!!!! Yup...thats rite!! a visitor visit the patient outside through this window!!!
RUSSIAN HOSPITAL VISITING POLICY!!!
Anyway, it is a quite funny and interesting memory that I had during my last year in Russia. I appreciate it a lot somehow~~
And the most important thing!!!! Thank God I don't have much pox-es on my face!!!!
