Steemit Engagement Challenge Season5 Week2 : My medical experiences

Greeting from my end, and I hope we are all doing great. One of the most important aspects of our life is our health. We do everything possible to be in good health to have a long life span.

Are you afraid of any medical instrument? Ex: syringes, sphygmomanometer, stethoscope, etc. Tell us why.

Yeah, I'm scared of syringes. It is an instrument I have never dared to stand for it. From child hold, I'm scared of any instrument that inflicts pain on the body. So, given that syringes inflict pain, I never love the instrument being used on me. That is why I will propose to medical personnel to give me any quantity of medicine rather than any treatment that will require syringes.

Are you afraid of any medical specialist? To which? We would like to know why.

Well, I’m not scared of any medical specialist. I personally love consulting specialists whenever I visit the hospital. I think it is less expensive than consulting a general practitioner. I see a General practitioner as a jack of all trades but a master of none-LOL.

My encounter is when you visit a general practitioner. He will be working on guest work, so will write several medications to buy. Which you will buy, go home, and will not get any response to your health situation. You will be forced to come back, and he will write another series of medications to buy. In some cases, he will write down a series of laboratory tests that you will have to do. In the list may just one or sometimes non-will be positive. Then you will go for another series of tests. It is really expensive on the part of the patient.

With a specialist, I will advise anyone to always ask for a specialist whenever they find themselves in the hospital for consultation. A specialist will quickly understand what you're going through and will give you the right prescriptions, or his guest will not be far from your health situation.

Do you remember any uncomfortable, painful, funny, or unpleasant medical experience? Share it with us🙂

Yeah, I can remember one uncomfortable and painful experience after taking an injection. It was fifteen years ago when I went to the hospital to consult. I can’t remember the reason for going to the hospital, but I have prescribed an injection to take at the hospital before going back home.

Given that I’m scared of a syringe, I had no choice but to get the injection. So, I went to the hospital reception and paid for the injection, and asked that I should be given to go administer it at home. Unfortunately for me one elderly man, which I don’t see why he had to be involved in the whole situation. Asked why to go home and pay someone to administer the injection, which you could do here for free. Everyone in the room was in support of the decision, which made me unable to back myself up with why I wanted to go home and administer it. So, I decided to take the injection, and the nurse asked me to go into the private room and take off my pants. I did as instructed, she came in and I begged her to be more careful with that syringe. She smiled and asked if I was scared of it. She said, “Never worried it will be fine”.

So, after administering the injection. Well, I did not feel the pinch of the needle. So, I jumped down from the bed and found myself on the floor. I could not stand on my feet, not to talk, or understand what was wrong with my legs. That was going I feel like my whole leg was paralyzed, and lumped. From that moment I only got up from the bed, which I was told I have slept for about three hours. From that day, I knew again syringes are not a form of medical instrument I should admire being used on me.

Did you experience any medical trauma in your childhood? Could you share it with us?

As a child, the only experience I can share was told by my mom to me. And it still goes in line with my fear of syringes at age of two. My mom told me that at the age of two, I was seriously sick and that she took me to a local clinic for consultation. The moment the doctor brought the instrument to get my sample, I jumped from the hospital bed and started running back home. At that moment, she did not understand if I was sick. Just seeing the instrument traumatized me, and I could not stand it but run away.

Have you experienced an accident or illness considered serious? What teaching did this experience leave you?

Well, the accident which I consider serious happened on the soccer pitch. In my secondary days, I was a soccer player and in one of the inter-secondary competitions. I had an injury that put me down for over six months. From that moment, I stay away from the soccer pitch, and even I find myself. I will not give my all when running toward the ball. That incident created fear in me, given that you never know the intention of your opponent on the field.

At the moment, whenever I'm on the field of play, I will remember my injury and I play with a lot of caution to make sure I don’t get myself into pain again. My performance dropped because of that incident in secondary school.

I will invite @crismenia, @wirngo, and @enveng to participate in this contest and share their experiences.

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