A Long Time Ago, in a hospital far, far away...Part Two

I did see quite a few cases during the time in the hospital far, far away a long time ago.

The farmer with the cobra bite was lying next to a farmer with viper bite. What I learnt was

1. The farmer with the cobra bite was dying from respiratory failure
2. The farmer with the viper bite was dying from renal failure
3. You can roughly "guess-timate" what species the snake belonged to by looking at the position of the bite. A bite above the ankle, around the shin tends to indicate a cobra. A bite below that would suggest a viper. These two farmers apparently both brought the snakes, which were quite dead on arrival
4. Not everyone can afford anti-venom

The man who fainted while bathing near a generator suffered carbon monoxide poisoning. What I learnt was

1. He was smiling/grinning inappropriately at everyone inside the room
2. He was no longer capable of speaking
3. His son’s intellect is definitely higher than his. His son was around 7 years old
4. He did not know/doesn’t care about what a certain female in his room was doing. The lady was crying. The lady was his wife
5. Not everyone can afford hyperbaric treatment
6. Is there one in that city?

The man lying in the hospital bed placed in the veranda on the 2nd floor. He was in the sun. If it rains, he would be in the rain. What I learnt was

1. He had oral thrush
2. Because he had AIDS
3. He did not have much longer to live. And he’s probably dead by now
4. Doctors there used him to demonstrate oral thrush to the medical students
5. Not everyone can afford anti-retrovirals

The man with the grimace on his face while the nurses was packing the wound had Fournier’s Gangrene. What I learnt was that

1. It looked hideously painful.
2. If I was to rate how painful it looked on a scale of 1 to 10, it would be 100,000,000
3. You really want to look at this only after dinner. (This is a picture lifted off the internet. The man's wound was worse... much worse...)

There's more to come I guess...