Emergency Room!
This entry was posted on 3/9/2007 8:49 AM and is filed under Recovery, Our Medical System, At the Hospital.
Five hours ago we were preparing to go out to eat. It was to be our thank you dinner for Emi. I went to urinate and was shocked to find that my genital area had doubled in size. This size increase was not the type that many men might hope for. I’m talking swelling as in balloon-type swelling. We called Dr. Uchida.
When we got through to him at the hospital he said something that I didn’t quite understand and that it happened in 6% of the patients. He said that I needed to come to the emergency room.
Getting there would be no easy task. It was 5 p.m. on Friday and under the best conditions the hospital is an hour and a half from Emi’s house. To make matters worse the entire drive is through a dense urban area. We put on our jackets and left. So much for Emi’s appreciation dinner.
The emergency rooms here don’t appear to be used as indigent outpatient clinics like in the U.S. That means we arrived and actually got served within minutes. Dr. Uchida was already gone but his intern, Dr. Nitta, who had worked with us throughout the process, came down to examine me.
I will spare the details but he said things were OK. I was having a problem with water retention which he said should go away on its own. Relieved, we headed back to Emi’s to get the baby to bed and munch down on some take-out. Evenings don’t always go as planned.
