First experience with a Nigerian doctor's office - surprisingly ok. I wouldn't want to have surgery here, but for clinic type of visits, not bad. The doctor was friendly and capable.
Oh yeah, I have a mohawk.
Thoughts of a young ex-pat teacher.
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Malaria = !
Nigerian Dr's Office = !!
Mohawk = !!!!!
I also had my first trips to the hospital/doctor in Lithuania recently. I feel the same, I think. Not too sure about something major like surgery...but routine visits (or in my case getting stitches) is not so bad.
Hope you feel better!
Who is David Macleop? :) (the word verification is "remedn"...almost like remedy).
Don't drink the water!!!
Ok, the MacLeop thing really makes me laugh.
But why David?!?!?!?
Laura: I can't believe that you've been in Lithuania for over a year and that was your first trip to the doctor!
Kendra: Silly, you don't get malaria from drinking the water. But I'll continue to take your advice.
Eva (and Laura): In Nigeria, most people have two names and a surname (last name). The first name is a Yoruba or Igbo name, and the second is a Western name. The registrar at the doctor's office couldn't pronounce "Warren" (which is fairly common here), so she just called me David, my middle name. Macleop was a misprint on my insurance card which means that any doctor visit for me will be under the name Macleop.
I'd like to see said mohawk!
What can I say? It is a cross between not liking to go to the doctor even in my own culture (and therefore "toughing out" lots of feeling sick) and fortunately not needing to go until now.
(Even before we drove to the emergency room I made other people look at my finger to confirm for me that it needed more than just a band-aid. Non-stop blood and light-headedness can really cloud one's denial that they need medical care ;)
Glad you are better, Malaria doesn't sound fun.
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