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My kuwento for the day
By: Yolanda Sotelo
This pm I went to the hospital (RIMC) kasi my throat was painful because of bangus tinik.
Last Saturday we had fried (supposedly) boneless bangus for breakfast, and I was careless because I was in front of the computer while eating.
So ayun, a fish bone got stuck in my throat and no matter how hard I tried I canโt take it out. I did everything โ swallow a chunk of banana, a ball of rice. Waley! It just did not budge.
Itโs the third day and I canโt bear the pain anymore so I asked Gillian (kasi nurse) my niece to accompany me to the RIMC.
The doctor at the ENT clinic tried to โmanuallyโ peer into my throat but canโt locate the tinik.
He said it may have been dislodged and the throat was injured by the tinik. But to be sure, he will explore my throat with a camera to find it if it was still there.
But it is costly! Five thousand four hundred pesos for the procedure! โBut it would be covered by PhilHealth,โ he said.
So the processing of papers began. It was already past two pm and a staff said I should finish processing by three pm because the clinic closes at 4 pm and they still need to prepare the equipment.
So Gillian and I had to run to at least three offices on different floors of two buildings, to have the request for Philhealth coverage approved.
Finally, at minutes past three, I was back at the clinic. A long, thin tube (with the tiny camera I supposed) was inserted into my throat and there it was (as shown on the monitor): about an inch long tinik (bone) that was horizontally settled, both ends embedded, in my throat! That was why I thought two tinik were stuck in there. And yes, the area was already swollen and red!
Anyways, Mark Kenneth Quisias, a resident doctor of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, successfully took out the tinik, and the pain, away. Now I can eat and drink painlessly! But tomorrow I will start taking antibiotics and a kind of steroid, spraying the throat and gargling with, yes, a medicinal gargle.
Lesson: Mind the fish (even if boneless) when eating!
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