{"id":244,"date":"1993-01-27T11:19:15","date_gmt":"1993-01-27T18:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=244"},"modified":"2009-05-16T11:19:41","modified_gmt":"2009-05-16T18:19:41","slug":"another-day-at-the-hospital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/?p=244","title":{"rendered":"Another Day At The Hospital"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> Woke up, rang the bell, and had our usual tea and newspaper in bed. Kate and I dropped off more material at the tailors, then headed out to the hospital to see what was going on.  When we arrived it was outside visiting hours, but because we&#8217;re white we were just let through the security gate and up into Rich&#8217;s air conditioned room.  no word on exactly what Rich&#8217;s condition was &#8211; they were doing a few tests and still giving him flush therapy for his possible kidney stone.  Kate and I sat with Rich in his drab, undecorated room all afternoon.  Rich was given an air conditioned room that consisted of a bed pushed against the wall, one neon tube on the opposite wall, an air conditioner that sat in the window, and two white translucent windows that I had to tie shut with a piece of a stolen bedsheet so the mosquitoes couldn&#8217;t get in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;\"> The doctor came in and refused to show us Rich&#8217;s medical chart; he said to just ask him and he&#8217;d tell us what we wanted to know.  Rather a pompous attitude for us, so we asked him question after question until he broke down and took Kate (who was a British medical student) to go look at Rich&#8217;s chart. Left the hospital in the afternoon and dropped off some more fabric at the tailors, then lounged around our room for a while.  Met Kate at the room then went to the people who sell fabric and bought a whole bunch more.  Back to the tailor, yet again to drop off the newest bits of fabric then <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">finally<\/span> made it to the hospital to give Rich dinner.  He reported nothing had been done since we&#8217;d left earlier that afternoon.  I went and had a meeting with the hospital administrator to get the billing sorted out and bitch that nothing had been done.  After my whinge session with the administrator I headed back to our room to wait for the insurance company to call from London again.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Woke up, rang the bell, and had our usual tea and newspaper in bed. Kate and I dropped off more material at the tailors, then headed out to the hospital to see what was going on. When we arrived it was outside visiting hours, but because we&#8217;re white we were just let through the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":245,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244\/revisions\/245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.traveller.org\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}