Dad was admitted into the hospital on Wednesday afternoon – he couldn’t move and he was afraid it may be stroke. He got Phillip and U.Kong to send him to Columbia. Leow called me about 12.45pm to tell me that dad was admitted into Columbia…she asked me to get there to see how is he. I couldn’t leave at that very moment but was able to scoot off right after JS arrived at 1.00pm.
I was worried but yet calm because if dad really had a stroke, he wouldn’t be able to still call me and talk right? Worried in a sense I didn’t know what was wrong – why couldn’t he move and sort.
After all the rushing around, apparently he couldn’t move because his gout turned worse and the doctor suspected that dad has viral infection.
Bleh.
In the end, what they gave him was pain killers, pain killers and more pain killers. If anything happens as a side effect from those pain killers (gastric ulceration, perhaps), I’m going to…kick the doctor’s backside. He was given a diclofenac injection and thereafter given 750mg of naproxen. Then it was colchicine.
When dad started having diarrhoea, I told him it’s a sign to stop taking anymore colchicine for the moment. Apparently the doctor told my dad that it’s okay, he could still take it.
What do my fellow pharmacists think? I know the maximum is 6mg a day but it is also stated to withhold colchicine once diarrhoea or vomiting occurs, no?
Anyway, he’s out of the hospital already. Took him back home today – they charged us RM760!
His medication contributed RM93.
Harlow? Naproxen tablets, diclofenac injection, paracetamol and colchicine (that also it was because the dong doctor didn’t take the medication for gout I placed on the table! Hmmph! I even wrote a whole list of medication dad is currently taking. Stu!). If I didn’t bring his medication box over, I think it would have cost more because there’s amlodipine, perindopril, indapamide, allopurinol, lovastatin, metformin, glibenclamide.
Hmmph!
I have to think positive – at least we know it’s not a stroke.
Thank God!
