Himalayan Odyssey(20)

Sunday 21st October, 2007
Some slight improvement but still very painful and volume way too low. Dominic phones the CIWEC clinic in Kathmandu and is fortunate to talk to one of the doctors. He gets me an appointment for 11am tomorrow (Monday). The doctor confirms that the antibiotics I am using should be sufficient to do the trick so we'll just have to wait and see how it goes.

Monday 22nd October, 2007
There has been no real improvement in my condition since yesterday so its off to the clinic in a taxi. The guy who runs the guest house takes us down to the main road as I am really not up to walking far at all.

Arriving at the clinic which is just across the road from the British Embassy, I am attended to quite quickly. The nurse takes vitals Pulse - 88 (high), BP - 120/70 (good), temp - 38.7 (high) plus a urine sample which is a huge effort. After seeing the doctor (David K.) I'm taken in for xray and ultrasound. Because of the obvious urinary tract infection I'm put on a saline IV. Since the Norfloxacin hasn't worked they zap in some Gentamycin via the IV and I just rest for most of the rest of the day. They also gave me paracetomol to break the fever and for some time I'm lying in bath of perspiration.

It doesn't take too long for the Gentamycin to start working its magic and I'm able to pass more of a normal volume for the first time in a few days - wonderful. Dr David wants me to be available to attend the clinic over the next few days so suggests two possibilities. First would be to check me into the clinic hospital wing. Second option is to go into a local hotel for a few nights. I choose the latter so we end up in the Radisson which is just five minutes walk away. In this state I'll worry about the cost later.