Nice experience

[Freebie]

We all know its easy to criticise some of what happens here down, were probably all guilty of it. But  wanted to share to  a nice positive story.

 

Was in Bantayan for all of December and got to see some of Odette etc.

Meanwhile one day there was cooking dinner and unbeknownst to me, the airbnb condo I was staying in had sharpened their previously blunt knives. Cue deep finger laceration and loss of lots of blood. Managed to patch it up for the evening ( thanks owner for providing a good useful first aid box ) and the following morning drove to a doctors only for him to tell me that only in the hospital can they apply stitches. Drove to the only small hospital on the island  where there were a few forms to fill in and then a nurse proceeded to attend to my cut. I was the only person in A&E that morning.

Cleaned with distilled water, then betadine then made 6 stitches, then wrapped it up and gave me spare gauze pads.  She checked with a doc somewhere along the way and he prescribed antibiotics ( as usual here). When all is done, I move back to the reception area and ask the nurse how much this was. She totally astonished me by saying "Sir, no cost at all. Free".

Not much in life is free but this treatment was. Very surprised and very happy to have been so well treated. Was a nice positive experience.

As a funny postscript, I went 10 days later to my local clinic for stitches removal but was told only a surgeon doctor could remove.

So a nurse can put in , but needs a surgeon doctor to remove?

[Old55]

If you don't mind sharing... What AirBnB do you recommend there? I enjoy Bantayan Island and plan to spend some time there this summer if all the madness calms down.

 

[Freebie]

5 hours ago, Old55 said:

If you don't mind sharing... What AirBnB do you recommend there? I enjoy Bantayan Island and plan to spend some time there this summer if all the madness calms down.

Have sent you a message re the listing.

 

[Jollygoodfellow]

On 1/10/2022 at 12:07 PM, Freebie said:

So a nurse can put in , but needs a surgeon doctor to remove?

Might be so that it can be checked first before removing. Doc might decide an extra few days is better.

[GeoffH]

1 hour ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

Might be so that it can be checked first before removing. Doc might decide an extra few days is better.

Or to check that it hasn't gotten infected maybe?

Probably both actually...

[graham59]

That's where those 'dissolving' stitches come in...like the ones when you have the vasectomy.

[Jollygoodfellow]

2 hours ago, graham59 said:

That's where those 'dissolving' stitches come in...like the ones when you have the vasectomy.

Do they have them here? Not sure if I have ever heard of it here but might be wrong.

[Jollygoodfellow]

5 hours ago, GeoffH said:

Or to check that it hasn't gotten infected maybe?

Probably both actually...

Yes thats what I meant. To decide that it is safe to remove.

[graham59]

7 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

Do they have them here? Not sure if I have ever heard of it here but might be wrong.

Don't see why not.  

[Freebie]

15 hours ago, Jollygoodfellow said:

Might be so that it can be checked first before removing. Doc might decide an extra few days is better.

You are correct that it should of course be checked but Ive had other stitches checked for infection  then removed here by a  doc from my barangay clinic... was suprised to be told that only a surgeon doc had to remove stitches.

As for dissolving stiches, I actually asked  about them to the nurse who put my stitches in ...she said yes she had heard of them when she did her training in Cebu but they hadnt ever seen any in Bantayan.