Endoscopy

Last month, brought my mom to SGH to have some radiography done, and was supposed to followup with the doctor a few days later for the report.

In the end, she forgotten about it, and I tried in vain to contact her on the actual day as well as the previous day.

Somehow, an appointment was made yesterday, and the doctor advised to do an endoscopy to check part of her intestines for any blood clotting or stuff like that.
It was supposed to be related to her liver problems, too chim for me to understand anyway.

So we came back to CGH this morning, and she needed to take some blood test before the endoscopy, just to make sure she has enough blood in case anything happen.
Appointment was 0930hrs.

But just like how most of the hospital works, it was damn slow.

First, the in-house doctor came to take the blood test like about 1015hrs, took 4 small tubes of blood, and came back at around 1120hrs to say one of the tubes had not enough blood to do the test.
Crap! But sometimes such things happen, so cannot fully blame them also. I am so kind.

Then wait wait wait, just like army huh, and wait wait wait.
Wait until around 1240hrs, then they pushed her to the endoscopy room to do the procedure.
It's about 1/2 hour procedure.

I went off to take my lunch at that point of time.
They called me at 1315hrs to tell me that it is likely for my mom to be admitted in the hospital for a 1-night observation.

Just spoke to the doctor, and he said it is good that this endoscopy was done. He found some blockage, and managed to tied up 5 blockage-growths, and would like to observer her condition for 1 day.

In fact, just did the administrative work with them for the admission, and waiting for the nurse to come and bring her to the ward.
Not sure which ward yet also.

Oh well. Wait again ... ... ...