Endoscopy

Dec 19, 2009 18:53

Apparently this is a routine, every-other-year thing here ( Read more... )

health, korea

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keechakatt December 20 2009, 11:36:25 UTC
Is this something that was required of you or a proceedure that needed to happen?

Not being nosy, just VERY concerned.

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lurkingheretic December 20 2009, 12:27:55 UTC
See, that's the weird part. It was 'sold' to me as part of a routine physical, which for something relatively invasive like that doesn't sound right. And yet I was not the only person getting one--there were two in the room when I woke up from the whatever-they-knocked-me-out-with. And I needed an appointment which is highly weird here, because pretty much everything medically is a walk-in situation, and it took a bit of negotiating on my coteacher's part to get a Saturday appointment.

Now, whether that's part of a routine physical but only for people who complain of stomach troubles, that I don't know.

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lurkingheretic December 20 2009, 12:43:53 UTC
On that thought I remember the nurse's compliment. As I was (panicking and) yanking the tube out of my throat, she called me 'fighting'. Which is a compliment here, it means someone who strives for something and doesn't take anything lying down. I was touched.

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