Apr 14: Medical
'Vacation'
Queen Mary Hospital in-patient
for suspected spine tumor,
until further notice...
P.S. a few days later:
A different foodie pic today:
My beige dinner in the massively
overcrowded, hectic medical ward
of Queen Mary Hospital 3 days
ago:
Waiting all day for
doctors on a little mattress in
the corridor, hungry and not
permitted to eat or drink all
day before blood tests in the
late afternoon, so this standard
dinner wasn't actually as bad as
it looks! Click for many
comments from Friends:
Happy Easter everybody! Checking
out today with same
all-lower-body numbness/tingling
as I've suffered for 3 weeks
now: Many tests, but no
diagnosis yet, no treatment, no
medication.
"Come back as
outpatient next week."
P.S. 2 weeks later:
Checking in again very urgently
as in-patient after my spine
MRIs showed some
"ill-defined intramedullary
spinal cord lesion at T4-5
level" (below the neck.)
(I had to sell my entire 50+
years old comics collection to
pay for the urgent private MRIs.
Public MRI waiting time up to
1.5 years, in my own experience.)
For more info (if you're
not the queasy type)...
View from A7 ward of Queen Mary
Hospital in South HK Island.
(Sorry for photo quality, oldish
smartphone on bad digital zoom
on a foggy day.)
At home now, still as
numb/hypersensitive in most of
lower body as when I spent two
stays in QM Hospital, awaiting
more lumbar puncture/blood test
results.
All muscles and
walking OK, for the time being,
despite it feeling like walking
on pins-and-needles.
