Doing the Booking

Now that things had settled down, we were able to sort out a few domestic things. Top of the agenda was finalising Idlan's birthday party booking. Even though it was a couple of months away we thought it might better to sort it out early. So off we went to te Bird Park.

I was doing the morning rounds earlier and will have to be at Ampang after lunch for a talk, so Anita had to go with the driver. They were caught in a jam while I got there almost half an hour earlier. I guess coming from PJ has it advantages. So I was now starig at the entrance waitig for them. I hope it won't be long as I was starving!

In the rain

I was stuck in the car in front of the house when I wrote this. I was back into the swing of things with the Dad doing very well. In fact they are starting his warfarin again today at half dose. Hopefully no more mishaps. I wa also planning to buy a monitoring device where I jut need a pin prick to check how thin his blood was to guide the warfarin dosing.

The Unit had a full afternoon program today with the afternoon CME sponsored by Pfizer. I also did a talk on febrile neutropenia for the new set of MOs. That was followed by a session with medical students. Puan Anita visited Dad earlier but I was unable to accompany her due to my busy schedule.

I think Dad should be back home by early next week. We were certainly already making plans for him at home, to make surethat he will not need to climb up and down the stairs. It also looked like we will be movig back to Taman Setia while he recovers.

Anita's visit

In a meeting at the moment and it was rather interesting for a change towards the end. Can't really mention what meeting it was since it was at Faculty level and confidential. Things were hotting but since I am a junior member of the Faculty I better keep my mouth shut. They were discussing some technical issues at the moment and it was dragging on for a good half hour now .....

Puan Anita was currenty with her Dad at the moment, the first time she has been to see him since the fall. She was waiting for me to be done with the meeting before driving her home. Dad seems to be doing well today.

A day for rest

Just a quick look at Dad before checking into work. AlhamDulillah HR was doing a lot better. He had some sleep and breakfast this morning. A few doctors check on him this morning already and everyone was pretty glad with his progress. He is now off high flow oxygen and able move on his bed without much trouble.

There were still a few tests needed doing and I will also be occupied with ward duties this morning. Anita was anxious to get to the hospital to see her father. She has not been to see him since admission. She'll probably come later in the afternoon as Idlan was at school today. When I left the house this morning, Irfan was still asleep. I have a few meeting lined up already for the afternoon. Going to be a long day.

Dad will need a rest for the next couple of days. Maybe when he is more stable he will be transferee out from CCU. My Ardiology friends certainly wants to keep him here as long as possible but I do understand that when he becomes more stable, there will be other patients who needs the bed as well. As for today, rest was what he needed.

Scope was clear

Now that the scope was done, Dad can have something to eat. His scope did not show any active bleeding. But the downside to that is we still don't know where the bleeding was from. Prof Chin wanted him to have a CT in the coming few days to make sure nothing was amiss.

Dad tolerated the scope very well since he was far from stable, we had an anaesthetist on stand by to administer medications to settle him for the procedure. It went without a hitch. Prof Goh was kind enough to loan us his new baby, a brand new scope for Prof Chin to use. With the new machine he was able to clip, laser, inject, microwave, make coffee etc while the scope was in the stomach.

As for Irfan, even though the order for discharge was given firstthing in the morning, Pantai had to conact the insurance company, Prudential to process the bill. By 3, when Anita asked the payment desk, it turned out that Prudential has not done anything with it. We even called our agent to find out what's goig on, and even she was surprised. No wonder some of my patients have been irate with Prudential as not only they were inefficient, they were fussy to release claims.

Only yesterday I told off one of the claims rep from Prudential for being too difficult with a patient's claim and asked me for explanation. I asked her to get a Medical personnel to speak to me rather than having to explain things because I'm sure there will be more confusion. Unfortunately I have too much invested in Irfan's fund thus far, plus it's not often that we claim from insurance.