Fever

Normally when my son gets fever, I would always wait for a few days to see what is happening. It usually is afterall a middle ear infection in which it cures itself in time. Some two weeks ago on a Friday , I was called by the Kindergarten that Adrian has a slight fever. After buying some homeophatic medicines, I brought him home and he spent the whole day and night sleeping. Saturday he was still feverish and weak, Sunday a bit better. Monday I still let him stay home. Come Tuesday I left him in Kindergarten for a few hours. On Wednesday he stayed a bit longer. The sun shone marvelously on Thursday and of course the entire kindergarten made use of this letting the kids play in the playground for longer period of time. However at night Adrian has a recurring fever that I needed to bring him the next day to the doctor.

The doctor I was recommended does not hold clinics on Friday and so I went to the next recommended one. It is Medifera. Finding their phone number at their webpage, I called them three times connecting me to an english speaking person. This is however a recording and after waiting and waiting for two hours that they call me back, I tried my luck just having myself directly connected to the slovak speaking line. Finally that was the trick. Someone will definitely speak some English there. Thankfully I was scheduled in 30 minutes. When we arrived, there was not a long waiting time. Adrian was checked physically, then his blood and urine were taken for tests. Unfortunately there was protein present in his urine and the doctor ordered me to go to the Children's Hospital in Kramare to get an ultrasound of his kidneys.

So off we drove. Upon reaching registration, no one spoke English and we were just given instructions to wait for Room 9. So instead of being brought to the ultrasound department we were told to go again see a doctor. Doctor is out at the moment. Every patient comes curious not knowing what is happening. Are we falling in line? Then of course we are anxious that the staff inside would see us and have us rightfully in line. Now this is the start of my dilemna. We waited 2 hours before my son was attended to. And the most painful thing was one sees all the patients go one by one and we were even there before them. But I did understand that some cases were an emergency. Thanks to their cartoon movies my son waited patiently but not me. As our turn came, I was literally shouted at and thrown out of the clinic by an elder doctor because I do not understand Slovak. I could not stop my tears from falling. I was then assured that the doctor who speaks slovak would soon be there to attend to Adrian.

After all the frustrations of this experience, I finally on the following week managed to make an appointment with Dr Dagmar Kollarova. A very good doctor who speaks English. And when I asked her about her clinic situated in the same hospital where I waited, she explained that she rents those premises and therefore holds her clinic there and could use the hospital services too. Once she brought me for where the ultrasound was and explained too that by registering, one is automatically in the list and one just has to WAIT for one's turn.

Now whenever I have doubts about Adrian's health, I can peacefully rely on Dr Kollarova. Her website is Kollarova.sk

This time I do not wish you

happy waiting!