Camping

Now after my brief little vacation at the isolation ward, I'd like to very much relate my experiences on hospital quarantine, in all it's splendor and glory.

What is hospital quarantine you may ask? Well it's a place they send you when you're already better to be isolated in case you infect more people with your healthiness. With that pattented malaysian spirit, why the hospital can GUARANTEE that you're healthy by the time they lock you in the ward with other possibly sick people so you can catch a new disease.

I had decided while in the ward that the malaysian hospitals are scared of one thing: efficiency. Why does it take so long to get the results for the swine flu test? Why because if it took just a day, they might actually have to TREAT you for a real disease while you're there.

Now, back to the topic at hand, the ward was like camping. You know, the activity where a group of you and your friends go to the great outdoors to eat delicious smores, and indulge in activities like hiking. The isolation ward is exactly like camping, if instead of friends, you were with absolute strangers, and instead of being in the great outdoors, you get to sit in a small room with a bed. And instead of delicious smores, you get to eat stale hospital food, and instead of fun hiking, we get to have fun-filled blood pressure and lung checks! Well alright fine, it's not very much like camping, but they got one aspect right: the mosquitoes, which have been well substituted by doctors that wake you up in the wee hours of the morning and take your blood.

This is what hospital stay is like, so exciting and dramatic as everyone sets it out to be no?

(and for the late posting, I'm sorry! It's just that....I kind of forgot to put it up if you'll belive me, which obviously, no one will)