Raphael went in to have his pre-assessment on 8/5/2008 for his upcoming adenotonsillectomy but as he was getting quite sick we took him around to the PACU area to squeeze in to see a doctor to see what they thought about him. Shipping him back and forth between PACU and the pre-assessment area when doctors were ready to see him filled our day.
I felt a bit guilty about turning up to the packed clinic times with people over flowing in the waiting area only to push in line to see the poor overworked registrar. When I told the registrar that I suspected that an x-ray will probably reveal a pneumonia she said "I think that you should really present to DEM (Eepartment of Emergency Medicine)". I responded with a cheeky "Yes but that will take us ages and you are supposed to make special exceptions for people like us (with complicated children)". She took pity and organised a queue jumping x-ray for us which of course revealed a pneumonia.
This wrecked his chances of having the adenotonsillectomy surgery any time soon and instead landed him in hospital for observation for a couple of days. He was discharged on 10/5/2008.
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