Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Showing posts with label health. Show all posts
Sunday, April 27, 2008

To the lighthouse

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The hospital I was in, which is reserved for lung cases and infectious diseases (in separate wings) with the TB ward lying somewhere in the ...
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008

The English Patient

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So, as you may have surmised, I was indeed admitted to hospital last week. I went in on Wednesday, and was expecting to be there for a week,...
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008

Faux Cough (and die)

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Over the past week I have been afflicted by the cough from hell. I have no idea whence it came, but I really wish it would fu-cough back th...
Tuesday, December 04, 2007

Blame Denmark

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Toys and games tend to have these labels on them saying things like "Not suitable for children under 3", and the like. Until yest...
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Monday, May 07, 2007

Chicken Varicella

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Varicella is not, as you may have thought, a type of pasta. It is in fact more commonly known (in English at least) as chicken pox. Varice...
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Catching Up

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Got back home on Monday evening, with much relief. A week is hard enough to be away, whereas I was gone for nearly 4. In my absence, Paula...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Blasted Health

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Sometimes I wonder whether Romania is really the best place to bring up my children. Hot on the heels of news of some respiratory infection...
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006

Down on the Pharm

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Going to the Chemist’s in Romania is, quite frankly, a pain in the arse. Not actually literally a pain in the arse, though I suppose it co...
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Friday, April 28, 2006

Nasal Octopus

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This has been a bad couple of weeks healthwise. Bogi came down with mumps (conveniently "mumpsz" in Hungarian) while I was away. ...
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Sunday, February 12, 2006

Health and the lack of it.

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I started writing something about our adventures last week, but in all honesty it’s still a little too fresh in my mind, so I really can’t d...
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Monday, December 26, 2005

Paula's birthday

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Thursday December 22nd, 2005. When we woke up Erika was complaining of some small contractions. I say "small" because that's...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Measles Weasels

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It's a bad time to be about to have a baby in Romania. That's because there is currently a measles epidemic here. The reason there...
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Saturday, April 30, 2005

Eye opener

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My first experience of the Romanian medical system. I had had something in my eye for a few days, which no amount of scratching or rubbing ...
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