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aquamarine1
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I am a 44 year old female, not overweight and average fitness – far from an elite athlete but exercise a few times a week. Health wise, the only real issue I have had is a very long, slow recovery from glandular fever (mononucleosis) a few years ago. I overdid it work and exercise wise when I was supposed to rest, so you would think I would have learnt from that!
H20_kat, I really don’t know what went on in the Maldives. As time progresses I realize just how fuzzy headed and out of personality I have been over the past weeks. Think the doctor was German, and it was at a well facilitated clinic on an island resort- so I did not feel the need to question further. I also held myself together pretty well over most of those days and made jokes about my situation, as many of us Australians do when we are actually scared out of our wits! When I presented why I felt that I was still not right, I did feel he dismissed me though.
My current home is actually Bali. The people looking after me here have been great and really listened to what was going on. In addition the doctors at DAN Australia have been very generous with their time and patient with me over the phone. Even when I was deciding whether I should go back to Aus, my sister (a nurse) called a chamber in Melbourne and the doctor came to the phone talked her through things. So yes, the dive doctors in Aus are a pretty good bunch, who are obviously caring and passionate about what they do.
Thanks once again to all the people who have supported me through this thread- not one to usually share such things online, I am glad I have done it. It has certainly helped me to relax and take time out to heal.
H20_kat, I really don’t know what went on in the Maldives. As time progresses I realize just how fuzzy headed and out of personality I have been over the past weeks. Think the doctor was German, and it was at a well facilitated clinic on an island resort- so I did not feel the need to question further. I also held myself together pretty well over most of those days and made jokes about my situation, as many of us Australians do when we are actually scared out of our wits! When I presented why I felt that I was still not right, I did feel he dismissed me though.
My current home is actually Bali. The people looking after me here have been great and really listened to what was going on. In addition the doctors at DAN Australia have been very generous with their time and patient with me over the phone. Even when I was deciding whether I should go back to Aus, my sister (a nurse) called a chamber in Melbourne and the doctor came to the phone talked her through things. So yes, the dive doctors in Aus are a pretty good bunch, who are obviously caring and passionate about what they do.
Thanks once again to all the people who have supported me through this thread- not one to usually share such things online, I am glad I have done it. It has certainly helped me to relax and take time out to heal.