She Has Exams But She Also Has Sickle Cell Disease... Update: Deformed New-born
Well, this "dad" came down to my consulting room yesterday, complaining angrily that it appeared his daughter had been neglected. Up until then I had been unaware of the case of the young lady with Bone-pain Crisis in Sicle Cell Disease - it wasn't quite half an hour that I had resumed duty and apparently the patient's intra-venous "line" had been unsuccessfully attempted earlier in the day, or so it seemed, and her parent had started to feel abandoned - which wasn't quite the case as she wasn't yet due for her next shot of i.v. injections, anyway. Eventually I went up and was able to secure the i.v. line on her right forearm. I then resumed her continuous i.v. fluid infusion - good thing that she had all the while tolerated lots of fluid by mouth. Apparently she had also ran a fever and diagnosed with possible Malaria. She appeared a little subdued in mannerisms as her dad informed me of her forth-coming school exams in three days. Later, I learnt o...