3rd world hospitals ... not all they're cracked up to be!!

hi everyone -- hope everyone is well. i am doing alot better, i had my first hospital stay last week. i was feeling sick on thursday, so i didn't go into work, and friday was worse so i stayed home in bed hoping to sleep it off -- didn't quite work. saturday morning i woke up and felt like my gutts were twisting, and had had a fever of 39-40C. When i finally figured out how to convert that to farenheit, i realized i just might need to go to the hospital. conversion -- multiply the temp in celcius by 1.8 and then add 32. so 40*1.8=72 + 32=104F = go to the hospital. so saturday morning i went to the hospital and they checked me in. so when i say hospital, i mean i had a plywood bed with a rubber mat on it, a bucket in the bathroom, and an iv stand that i had to carry around with me whenever i moved. they had no medicine, ihad to go get my own and my own thermometer. no towels or blankets, but they did have a mini fridge for me to store the rice that i was supposed to have brought with me. seriously, what would we have done without the rice fridge. erin stayed with me for the 3 days i was there, thank GOD. neither of us had any money, so we ate crackers and water. so next time any of you have to go to the hospital, and you think it sucks -- just look around at the blankets, towels, beds, call buttons, tv's, ready supply of medicine, and english speaking nurses and doctors and think of this blog. and consider yourselves very lucky. oh, the best part -- we had the private, deluxe room. my supervisor came to visit me, and was like, wow what a nice room. ha. they never figured out what i had -- the best guess was ecoli or an amoeba, they wanted to do a colonoscopy, but i regretfully declined and promptly checked myself out of this place of healing. i'm better now, and it makes for a fun story -- but you can belive when i say i'm NEVER going back!!!