Sicko

Thursday, June 19, 2014

I've been sick. It's easing now but for a few days it was feel-like-I'm-swallowing-cockleburs-and-shivering-under-16-blankets-and-even-my-bone-marrow-hurts sick. Went to the (English speaking!) Czech doc and he took my temperature twice, looked confounded, and then had a nurse take it. "It's unbelievably high," he said with a furrowed brow. My teeth were chattering.

In the U.S., if I was sick I'd hop in the car and drive 10 minutes to the local HealthPartners Clinic. Here, the journey is much more ambitious, especially when you feel like you might faint along the way.

From school, I take the tram. (From home, an additional metro leg is added.) 


Then I have to walk downhill...


...past these old painted lady storage containers. There's no road for cars near them, which is odd.

After about a 7 minute walk, I end up at the gates of the Canadian Medical Center.

Apparently it used to be a sanatorium, according to this tile?

It's a stately, mansion-esque building on the outside...

...and on the inside.

The verdict: An ear/nose/throat infection, hayfever, a high fever and something "-itis" in my chest. I left with 5 prescriptions and a note for a week off work, as is the status quo in this country. So are prescriptions for a week by the sea or a trip to a massage therapist! 

Spent a Friday and weekend at home and am back in the grind, though another day off would've probably been prudent. Now BW is sniffly...





8 comments

  1. Wow, what a gorgeous sanitarium/doctor's office! Makes up a bit for sickness, I guess. Feel better soon!

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    1. Many thanks, Polly! Yes, at least there's some eyecandy to look at when you visit :)

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  2. Wow, quite sick indeed!! :( Hope you feel better soon! That's quite a trek for someone who's feeling ill..... when you don't have a car around and you feel poorly it can be so extremely frustrating. I think I've needed a prescription for a trip to the see for the past six months, at least ;)

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    1. Ha! I visited Marianske Lazne once and there was a group of police officers there who were prescribed two weeks a year in spa towns to relieve the stress of their jobs - and that wasn't even vacation time! Gotta love Czech medicine :)

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  3. Wow, sounds intense. I am lucky my doctor is two blocks away, though since I am a freelancer I never really need the sick note and usually tough it out at home. With five prescriptions, I hope you're feeling better super soon!!!

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    1. That's so cool that you freelance full-time. Hence the cool blog! Don't think I needed 5 prescriptions but that's how they do things here!

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  4. Hi Em,

    I'm a bit late commenting here so I hope by now you're fully recovered. Yes - the Czech medical profession does go a little overboard with their prescriptions. My Czech dermatologist always wants me to have some funny white antibiotic powder to be applied to those spots that she's just treated with liquid nitrogen. In the UK, with exactly the same treatment, it was never even mentioned.

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    1. Feeling much better, thanks :) Ricky, I hope you're healing up, too! Powder or no powder!

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