Emergency Overseas

Our recent trip to WA in December 2022 can be described as a mixture of both happy as well as some anxious moments. 

We had incredibly great times visiting places and eating nice food with Serene's family. But after spending a week in WA, my wife started feeling severe back pain. The pain was particularly apparent at night when she laid down to sleep. To relieve or minimize the pain, she had to partially sit up and lean against the head rail of the bed. Thinking that it could be a recurrence of kidney stone, she was contemplating cutting short the holidays and flying back to KK for treatment.

By the early morning of 30 December 2022, the pain was so unbearable that she asked Serene to send her to the nearest hospital for treatment.

To cut the story short, it was finally diagnosed by the attending Doctor that she was suffering from Shingle. With the case known and the subsequent treatment, the pain gradually subsided and we were on track to enjoy the rest of the holidays.

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As a matter of fact, that was not the first emergency that I had to go through. Just a week shy of four years ago in early January 2019, I had to call the hospital for an ambulance because of an unexpected accident (Read here). Life is indeed unpredictable and is full of surprises!

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As a side note, other then the cost for Covid test which is mandatory for admission to the hospital which was not reimbursed by the Insurance Company, all the other medical expenses incurred were all settled by the Travel Insurance which we purchased before the trip.