The damage has been assessed….Bro told me that it was S$800 after all the subsidy from the government. Furthermore, the amount will be deducted from his medisave, so bro don’t have to pay cash.
Whew!
That works out to be S$100 per duck head….damn expensive…
The events that happen this Chinese New Year is one that I do not wish to repeat.
6 Feb
It was reunion dinner. In came my dad and my youngest brother, Alex. Dad did not look well, had little to eat and was coughing out lots of phlegm (really a lot!). That evening, he went home and threw up. Alex sent him to the A&E at the local hospital. Doctor diagnosis – lung infection and fever. He was warded at 5am in the morning.
7 Feb
We visited dad in the hospital. At the hospital, he told us that he suspects that he could have accidentally swallow the bone of some duck heads that he had eaten 2 days ago. Duck bones? Seems that Alex bought dad 8 duck heads for his dinner. Dad loves these things. In his hasty way of eating, he could have swallow a bone by accident.
8 Feb
An x-ray was requested – it turns out negative. But as he continued to feel uncomfortable, the doctor decided to do a CT scan. The CT scan revealed a shadow of a possible foreign object lodged horizontally in dad’s oesophagus. The doctors notified us that they intend to put dad under general anesthetic to remove the foreign object from his oesophagus through the mouth. Failure to do that, the doctors would have to operate on dad by cutting a slit in his throat. As dad has complicated health problems, the doctor was concerned that the procedure might give him a heart attack or stroke. The doctor advised that the family be there at the hospital.
We rushed down to the hospital at 8pm to prep him up. At 9pm, the doctor spoke with us. My dad now insists that he is feeling better and that the bone is no longer there. With this new revelation, the doctor decided to do another CT scan as bone could sometimes shift down to the digestive system and eventually be naturally passed out. Furthermore, the doctor would rather not proceed with any procedure as putting dad under general anesthetic has its risk.
As the doctor said that the results of the CT scan will be out in the early morning, We were advised to go home and that the hospital would call us when necessary.
At 11pm, the hospital called and confirmed that the bone was indeed lodged in dad’s oesophagus and they are wheeling him into the theatre right away, but our presence was not required.
At 11.35pm, my sister called and said that dad is refusing to undergo the procedure as he thought the doctors were going to slit his throat. Despite some reassuming from the doctors and dad’s subsequent approval, my sister and I decided to go to the hospital, just to be sure.
9 Feb
The procedure was completed at 1am in the morning. We waited for them to wheel dad out to his ward before we went home.
And now a picture of the culprit… (warning: The following picture may cause distress to some readers)
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