A Long Afternoon

I got a phone call during my clinic from Anita. My father-in-law had a fall at home and he was bleeding from the back of his head. He was still at home and my mother-in-law was panicking about what to do. Luckily, the driver was there and called the ambulance.

Anita on the other hand was stuck in a traffic jam after sending off the boys at school and it was one of those foul morning that it rained since the break of dawn and traffic was atrocious. She was desperate to get back to Gombak and only managed to get to see his father after he was transferred to the Casualty in Hospital Kuala Lumpur. The ambulance came pretty quick and since the fall happened on the entrance floor, extracting my father was straight forward enough.

Abah having his transfusion while waiting for a bedTime to registerHe was brought in into the HDU. Anita and the Nurses helping him to settle in.He had a bad bang to the head and required scans and a stay at the ICU. And that was not after the wound was looked at and the bleeding controlled. He was on warfarin and needed a reversal agent to stablilise things. Despite the place being busy, HKL did a great job in sorting out my father. The immediate treatments were renderered at the Casualty floor itself without delay and all the relevant support Specialties were on hand to give their input. He was sorted out within hours. I can’t praise them more.

However it took a while before they had an opening at the observation ward. It was well after Maghrib when he was moved after the emergency treatment given. Now, we have to see how things develop in the coming few days. He would require follow-up scans and some rehabilitation. Hopefully he won't be in for too long.