N 37 A visit to Bumrungrad
I did not dream about
going to Bangkok during this time . But a cause appear , so that I had to do so
.
Before coming back to
Yangon , where we are going to stay one and a half months for the winter I had
a little pain in my left stomach. I took medicine for stomach ache , but it did
not go away. So I went to a physician in Yangon and he said I had to do
gastronomy and colonoscopy. I had experienced colonoscopy here and I know how
painful it is. I imagine gastroscopy will be worse as one has to swallow the
scopy down the aorta . I am afraid of the pain I will have to endure.
So I decided to go to
Bangkok where people says there is no pain at all to do these things. I told my
husband , who is always wanting to go abroad with a motive to do shopping and
he gladly agreed. If I have to go into hospital I will need another companion
beside USTM. So I asked Nang Kham Eain to come from Taunggyi and accompany us.
We left on the 26th
and booked the return tickets for the last day of the year, returning back with
my daughter Ying and her two daughters and her group of about 30 people . They
had departed ahead of us on the 22nd to visit Thailand and Cambodia.
I saw the doctor on the
day we arrived in the afternoon . He said like the doctor in Yangon. To do
gastroscopy and colonoscopy tomorrow. I have to be at Bumrungrad at 9 o’clock
the next morning , staying in a small room , taking laxative and prepare for
the test.
Oh… one thing I forget
to tell . I had been fasting since 11:00 pm last night. I was thinking will I
be able to stay without eating or drinking until this thing is finished round
about 2:30 pm.
About 1:15 they took me
to the room where the scopies are to be done. A nurse sprayed my mouth with
some kind of drug and put a gear in my mouth to keep it open. They also
injected some kind of sedative , I think
to put me to sleep. After that I don’t know or feel anything . Later I
woke up on my bed near the nurses station.
This was how it was
done. I neither feel hungry nor any pain . But the cost is huge. And it is not over yet.
I still have to wait and see what is happening in my digestive system.
And I was praying that it will not be cancer. But even if it is still worrisome
, strangely I fell asleep early without even wash my face and brush my teeth.
The appointed time to
see the doctor the next day was 4:15 pm . So we spent the time at MBK shopping
and went to the hospital at the appointed time.
Thank God…. The result
the doctor explained to me does not seem serious. I had diffusely inflamed
gastric mucosa and some polyp which were removed. To avoid cancer I have to
check again after one year.
Bangkok hospitals are
famous to us Myanmars and the Middle East. Comparing with our hospitals they
are far more better than ours concerning the buildings , the facilities, the
doctors , and care given to the patients. It is not tiring even if we have to
wait several hours.
If the condition in our
private hospitals are like those in Bangkok, when I have health problems I will
choose to go to our own hospitals. This will make us save a lot of money ,
avoid the tiring journey of air travel ,
and the inconveniences we have to face in a foreign country.
Can I expect my country
to become like that?
