Hi, there! Wonderful people of the hive community. Hope that you all are having a fantastic day. This is going to be my 64th participation for the #iamalivechallenge, a project run by @flaxz. Time is flying. Seems like I started to take part in this community just yesterday. But it is 2 months over already! In the rest of the post I am going to share a story of a severely ill patients who visited me recently in my clinic.

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Yesterday morning, one Bangladeshi patient visited my chamber. It wasn't his first visit, rather it was his 3rd visit in the last 10 days. His main complaints were neck pain, headache, giddiness/dizziness/vertigo, nausea/vomiting, lack of energy, lethargic/fatigued etc. He visited our clinic on the 19th, 21st and 27th of February.

On the first visit, he was diagnosed as having very high blood sugar (He was a patient of diabetes mellitus but wasn't controlled), high blood pressure. He looked lethargic or extreme fatigued. He didn't have any respiratory symptoms or fever. Medications were given, and he left.

One day later, on the 21st of February, he visited again with the same complaints. His prominent symptoms were neck pain and vertigo. His blood sugar was unchanged despite the medications prescribed to him. I gave injectable medications for the troubling symptoms and I prepared one referral letter for the higher centre. However, he left our clinic without informing me or the nurses. So, the referral letter remained at my desk.

Yesterday (27th of February) he came back. Same problem; extreme fatigue. It was difficult for him to sit on a chair. According to him, 2-3 days earlier, he was taken to another clinic and consulted a medicine specialist. He changed some of the medications I prescribed before; fair enough. But, the patient couldn't eat the medicines due to vomiting. In the meantime, his sponsor had booked an air ticket to send him to his native place, Bangladesh. For that, as a requirement, he did the PCR test for COVID19 as well.

I found his blood sugar and blood pressure still high. His conditions didn't improve.

His conditions demanded his admission to a higher centre and being treated as an in-patient. But, due to the high cost, expatriates usually try to avoid getting admission to a higher centre/government hospital. I had no choice but giving him another referral letter for the big hospital. Going there or not, that is his choice.

Judging his appearances, it appeared that he wasn't fit for travelling as well. Not sure if was able to fly or not. His flight was today early morning at 3:00 am.

The End

I am alive, Alhamdulillah. How about you?