Pansy’s Ataxia Blog

Day 11 and 12 at the hospital

September 7th, 2008

The Hospital is new–built 2 years ago–when I look out the window here on the 8TH floor I can count 16 of the high rise cranes–there are more cranes in Dubai, but there is lot of building going on here. They are building a multi big Mall across the street from the hospital. The room we have is quite large with 2 beds, couch, micro wave, small refrigerator, water cooler, desk and chair and the usual hospital attachments–the bathroom is equipped for roll in wheelchair–they have the usual electronic equipment–telephone, cable TV, internet hook up. They do not furnish meals for patients–You can order meals delivered from outside or the caretaker can fix them. They insist that each patient have a caretaker with them to assist with what ever is needed. They furnish the first 2 rolls of toilet paper and 2 thin towels. We have air condition–everything is clean as a pin. There are generally 5 or 6 doctors when they make their morning rounds. There is one doctor on duty at night for the 8th and 9th floors which is the VIP unit for foreign patients.

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