
My instructions were to return room 10 in an hour and a half when test results should be completed. I sat in a cool breezeway near a small bakery on the grounds and ate most of an apple smoothie and a muffin, read my magazine and went back upstairs to room 10.
The nurse at the reception desk sent me directly to another numbered room for test results. When my turn came, it was a different doctor and she spoke very good English, but apologized for her weak language skills. She called up the results on her computer, but they were incomplete and she explained that waiting longer would not be necessary because it could take hours more if there was a backlog.
She went over my symptoms with me again and suggested I might be afflicted with parasites and that one test result showed anemia. She did another cursory physical exam (and used an identical $2 flashlight to look down my throat) and suggested we treat for parasites and anemia right away. When I told her I had lost 9 kilograms in two months, she looked more concerned and ordered another blood test and urine to be done in a followup visit two weeks hence.
I paid the $1.50 for the two meds (apparently her visit was included in the original service charge), I picked up the meds at the pharmacy counter and went home to rest after a long day at the government hospital.
To date, I have finished the parasite regimen and there is no change. We'll read test results in two weeks and I'll take her my lab test results I had done in Maine in November to compare.
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