Listen up, people! Pay attention to the date of the previous article! My apologies if I scared some of you! To avoid any further misunderstandings: of course we stay here! We like it here! We love the food here! We hate the seasons! We even love IKA! After all they paid for my hospital...
Read more →Hmm. Well, that’s it. We throw in the towel. We tried very hard, but we have to admit that we failed. We knew upfront that it wasn’t going to be easy, but what really broke us was the enormous bureacracy here. The drop that made the bucket overflow was the whole ordeal of getting...
Read more →Tomorrow I have to go back to the university hospital. For the real angiography this time. Hopefully it is going to be less messy, less bloody. I have to present myself at 8:30 at the “Nuclear Department” according to my instructions. Whatever this is going to be, I guess I will see a lot...
Read more →After 2 days I still couldn’t remember the name of my new doctor. I kept referring to him as “Curly” to Yvonne. So, Curly came to see me today at around 11:00 and removed the bandages (and the toilet roll!) of the stefanography. It didn’t look pretty down there! My right groin was all...
Read more →I didn’t sleep well at all. The roll of toilet paper they had tightly strapped to my right groin was hurting all night. The nurse had explained that it was necessary, to make sure that the vein in my groin would close completely. A good thing they will take it away in a couple...
Read more →During breakfast the doctors come in and tell me to get ready for the stress test. I haven’t finished my tea yet and I ask “Now?“. Yes, is the simple answer. A nurse is already waiting with a wheelchair to bring me to the test room. There I get strapped up with a dozen...
Read more →Old Manolis in the corner has a private nurse who can’t talk in whispers. She keeps me awake. At midnight the nurses came to put the anti-trombose injection in my belly. It’s beginning to hurt and it’s full of blue spots. At 05:30 they come round again for medicin distribution and blood taking. I...
Read more →Some facts at last (around 13:00). The young doctor — I learned today that his name is Michalis — came to see me. It’s Friday, the end of the week and it’s quiet. Earlier today I had an echography of the heart. Michalis hadn’t seen the result yet though. But he “had a plan”,...
Read more →My neighbour’s wife has stayed with him the whole night. Unfortunately she installed herself on a chair between my bed and his. There is about 40 centimeters room between the 2 beds. She has been snoring all night, right next to my ear. At 4 in the morning Giorgos starts his reshuffling-of-the-medical-papers routine. Giorgos...
Read more →Wednesday, twenty third of February two thousand and five At 06:00 temperature taken. At 08:30 medication distributed (my infusion is removed). At 09:00 breakfast served. At 09:10 bed linnen changed. At 09:30 the “young” doctors start their visit. I’m first as usual. Potassium too high. I get some yellow powder to mix with some...
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