Today is my lovely Mummy's Birthday. So Happy Birthday Mum! In Korea, my Mum's Birthday began with me falling off the side of my stairs in my apartment in the middle of the night and then a subsequent trip to the hospital. I've torn three ligaments in my outer ankle and I'm in a lot of pain. I was told that such a severe sprain can take up to ten weeks for a full recovery. Brilliant! just what I need! I have a cast on my leg and a pair of crutches (I can't even stand on my right foot at the moment because it hurts so badly) so the likelihood of me making it to Vietnam this Friday is not looking so great! :'( So sad!
On the plus side, all the staff at the hospital this morning were beyond AMAZING!!! I was in, x-rayed, shot in the bum, casted and bandaged up within 40 minutes. Unbelievable. That would have been a four-five hour job in Manchester!
I got looked after so well and they were all so lovely to me. The receptionist who spoke perfect English wheeled me around all over the place even outside to take me to the chemist where she picked up my medication for me then afterwards got a taxi for me. So lovely. All the staff made this horribly daunting situation so much easier for me. What I thought would have been so much more difficult to handle not being in my own country actually turned out much better than if I had have been. Just makes me loved Korea and its people even more!
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