update on hospital...

apparently the spots are not a viral rash afterall...but 'heat rash' (at the start of winter?!)... oh well. They've discharged us now, and G's been declared well and fine. I guess seeing that he's bouncing and smiling and shrieking (in a good way) - they think he's bril. we think so too!! ha!

on a separate issue - we watched 'Sicko' on the weekend (a film by Michael Moore). And it was really interesting. I'm sure Michael Moore's really controversial (there are anti-MM websites out there!) but if even what he says is a mere dramatisation of the facts, then it's really spine-chilling, that in America, people get turn away from medical help because they don't have health insurance.

What I don't get about health insurance is this: surely after one has declared a known illness/symptom, then insurance should cover whatever illness you get afterwards, no? Perhaps one pays more for certain illnesses (like say cancer, in my case), but surely they'd get treated? There was a case of a man who had to decide whether the hospital should sew back one of his two finger tips that he'd sawn off. The price difference was 12K v 60k. He went for the 12K one (which incidentally is the ring finger). He now walks around without a middle finger tip.

MM then went to check out the Canadian, British and even Cuban health services....which did not discriminate between rich/poor and the like. I guess we experienced it first hand during the journey of G's conception till now. Every visit to the midwife was free, as was when we had the early contractions and got admitted to the hospital at 30weeks (and the proposal that I stay in hospital for 10 weeks till I gave birth!?), as was the final delivery and now, the 8/12/16 week immunisations, BCG, and even this recent hospital visit with x-rays. I've had a endoscopy done on the NHS and another one's on the way, this time at the private wing, but paid for by the NHS (because the queue's too long!).

We're proud of the NHS...! :)

p x

ps: G was weighed as a result of today's hospital visit, and he's now 8.82kg (back on the 50th Percentile).