Wasn’t feeling great Thursday, Friday and Saturday night. By Sunday afternoon had a temp of 38.4. (I need use my iphone to do temp conversions to figure out what this is, even after all these years.)

Monday I made an appointment at the Mona Fong clinic, operated by Tseung Kwan O hospital, in Sai Kung town. HK$45 (less than US$6) covers seeing a doctor and medications. Hooray for HK’s medical system.

Except … was the doctor under orders to NOT diagnose people with flu? It’s not beyond the realm of possibility, is it? I told him I had all the classic flu symptoms – fever, dizziness, nausea – and he told me that I had a cold with a slight fever. So even though I don’t have a runny nose he gave me antihistamine. And even though the only time I’m coughing is when I smoke (and my smoking is down 80% right now) he gave me cough syrup. For the fever, he prescribed Panadol. No anti-biotics.

So one day later, I still have a fever. Basically slept last night from 5 PM till 9 AM, got up a couple of times to look at email only, and this morning temp is holding steady at 37.9. Can’t decide if my next step should be to go to the emergency room at Tseung Kwan O hospital or see my regular doctor – who’s in Central, a bit more of a trip than I feel up to at the moment. Or just go back to the same place and say, “hey, you see?”

Hongkie Town
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