{UAH} My recent hospital experience

Folks,

Recently as I lay in bed recuperating on a hospital bed At John Hopkins a very fine hospital, It got me thinking. I am pretty sure I'd be dead had I been in one of NRM's fabulous hospitals like Mulago hospital. In fact I looked back several years when in a coma, I ended up in a hospital in the former Kilembe Mines where I had been visiting my bakiga relatives who as you all know were very many then in the sixties and seventies . My doctor then was Dr. Sekupanwa a Zimbabwean exilee. As there was still some segregation, I had a black doctor. 

Fast forward, several years later ,it was a different setting and time but I vividly remember that the level of treatment received was not very different. The food, the care , the cleaniless. I never wanted to go back to Rwamucucu. Of course with the level of modernity today well.... but that is beside the point.

I had a chance to meet very many nationalities from Africans to where ever..... name it! In fact one of my CNA's was a Ugandan: may she be blessed for she was studying to become a PA. We talked much about what was going on home, I made a joke that after that she should head home after her studies because she would be an equivalent of 100 doctors made in KIU Bushenyi.

Anyway I have for a very long time had stomach pains without exactly knowing what was wrong. While the California doctors had assured me that I may have some else like african vodoo but certainly not the dreaded pancreatic cancer. Although the pain continued and as fate would have it, got employed in the state near the world class hospital and as a state employee had all the insurance I needed.

I had an unbelievable team of doctors : Dr Christpher Wolfgang a soft-spoken surgeon who  made it look like  Simon walking to the then Katanga with ream power or TA or boom. What could go wrong?

Another was a cocky Dr Kashab Mouen, who was probably not moe than 40 years or appeared so. The other two had come in from Germany and Norway , one being a reconstructive surgeon. I actually got scared thinking that this being a teaching hospital , the cockiness was a result of them trying to prove something, more especially when I signed a non-liability document.

Anyhow 5 days later I was sent packing out of the hospital.By the way, I drove myself home a distance of about 50 miles out of Baltimore. Good they never got to know it. I felt really good , I was kicking and jumping like nothing had happened. I still had the drains though. 

Then the kiga blood set it in. I disregarded the order to ease out on the foods I had to eat. Wapi. I made myself the only food I eat, Ugali and barely cooked nyama choma. That did it. An obstruction. A terrible disaster. again instead of calling for an ambulance I drove to the local hospital who wanted nothing to do with me and sent me back to base: John Hopkins. Obviously, they knew what had gone wrong and I admitted my mistake. I told them that I thought I was a mukiga and that is what drove me to make a foolish mistake.

Anyhow I learnt my lesson and when I went back for follow up and clearance,  I realised that behaving like a mukiga on health  issues is a bad idea. The good news was that all my fears were allayed I got cleaned up and found that the gall bladder was a piece of shit. It had to be removed. so I had to stay away from some of my favourite food stuffs and never going to taste a good wine for the rest of my life. 

As I speak, am itching to eat kalo and Ugali but well......... to hell with bukigaism.

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